The Nobel Prize for Literature recently opened their archives from 1969. Of the 103 writers from around the world nominated for the prize, four were women.
Get to know the four women who were nominated for the 1967 Nobel.
Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Remains of the Day, has won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
A defense of songwriters as poets in the light of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize for Literature win.