１９６８年，老舍先生以其卓越的文学成就获得诺贝尔文学奖提名，成为有史以来最有希望获得诺贝尔文学奖的中国作家。但令人遗憾的是，当时老舍先生已经不在人世。他的逝世使中国文学蒙受了巨大的损失，也使世界文学失去了一位文学大师，中国作家在２０世纪获得诺贝尔文学奖的 In 1968, Mr. Lao She won the Nobel Prize for literature for his outstanding literary achievement and became the most promising Chinese writer ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. However, it is regrettable that Mr. Lao She was dead at the time. His death has caused great loss to Chinese literature and also lost world literature to a great master of literature. Chinese writers won the Nobel Prize in Literature in the 20th century