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Old 12-20-2020, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by JonPR View Post
Shakespeare died in 1616. The Nobel Prize for Literature was established in 1901.

It's not awarded posthumously .
Yes, obviously my joke there with a wink didn't come across. Google tells me it was, in fact, award posthumously once, but sadly, not to Shakespeare. And it was in the same year the author died, so a bit of a technicality.
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