Historical clue formulations

• Nominee for the first two Nobel Prizes in Literature (1901-02), but never won — 2020-01-11
• Writer who pioneered in naturalism — 2019-12-21
• Author who was the title subject of the Best Picture of 1937 — 2014-11-15
• Writer interred in the Panthéon — 2006-10-07
• "The Experimental Novel" novelist — 2001-07-07