Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded on 7 occasions
The Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded on seven occasions as "none of the works under consideration (were) found to be of the importance indicated in the first paragraph." The prize was not awarded in 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943. Notably, the Literature Prize has been given out 109 times since 1901.