Other nominated authors included André Malraux, Albert Camus, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Nikos Kazantzakis, E. M. Forster, Gottfried Benn and Robert Frost.[4] According to The New York Times Hemingway had been a serious contender for the prize in 1953, but his candidacy was postponed as members of the Academy thought that Hemingway and his wife may have perished in an air crash in Africa.[5]