Posthumous awards were given only on special occasions based on certain guidelines. Only two times - Nobel Peace Prize in 1961 to Dag Hammarskjöld and Nobel Prize in Literature 1931 to Erik Axel Karlfeldt were posthumous.
During 1948, Gandhi was almost finalized for the Nobel Peace Prize, but he was assassinated before the awards were approved by the committee. After some deliberation, it was decided not to give a posthumous award. That year no peace prize was given on the grounds that 'there was no suitable living candidate'.
From 1974, a rule has been added that a Prize can not be awarded posthumously (except when death has occurred after the announcement of the Nobel Prize).
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