In 2009, German author Herta Muller won Nobel Prize in Literature. Which of the following statements about the Nobel Literature Prize is/are correct? I. As many as twelve women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature including Muller in 2009

II. American author Pearl S Buck was the first woman to be awarded in 1909 III. Jean Paul Sartre was the last author to reject the Prize

Swedish author Selma Lagerlof was the first woman to be awarded in 1909. Boris Pasternak, the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature, “Accepted first, later caused by the authorities of his country (Soviet Union) to decline the Prize”. Jean Paul Sartre, the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, declined the Prize because he had consistently declined all official honours. No one has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature more than once. In 1931, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded posthumously to Erik Axel Karlfeldt. From 1974, the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that a Prize cannot be awarded posthumously, unless death has occurred after the announcement of the Nobel Prize.