Ramón Menéndez Pidal Received 154 Nobel Nominations
Why this is here: The Spanish author Eloy Moreno signed over eleven thousand books—specifically 11,088—in a single twelve-hour period.
In Germany, records show Ramón Menéndez Pidal received 154 nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature without winning. This number marks a record, though the Guinness Book of World Records lists him only as a frequently stolen author from public libraries. Eloy Moreno, a former IT professional from Spain, signed 11,088 books in twelve hours, setting a different kind of record.
The article details several unusual aspects of the Nobel process. Author Godfrey Sweven nominated himself through a professor using a pseudonym.
Carl Spitteler won in 1919 after being nominated since 1915, partly for advocating reconciliation after World War I. Swedish authors Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson shared the 1974 prize, with Martinson’s poem Aniara depicting a doomed spaceship.
Records from 2016 onward remain sealed for fifty years. This prevents knowing who was nominated the year Bob Dylan won, sparking considerable debate. The archives will eventually open, but the process of nomination and selection remains partially obscured.
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