1. The criteria for the Nobel Prize in Literature consist of five main points.
2. Firstly, the recipient must have made outstanding contributions to humanity.
3. Secondly, the candidate's work must be a highly recognized achievement on a global scale within the previous year.
4. Thirdly, the selection process does not take the author's nationality into account.
5. Fourthly, the winner must have made significant contributions to the literary field.
6. Fifthly, the work should embody idealism.
7. This award is unrelated to any specific country and is directly granted to the winner.
8. The scope of the Nobel Prize in Literature encompasses more than just pure literary works (such as poetry, novels, and plays), but also includes other types of literary creations.
9. The establishment of the Nobel Prize is not based on generally recognized or widely known principles or standards, but rather on Nobel's personal ambitions and vision throughout his life.
10. Its legal basis is provided by his last will and testament, signed on November 27th, 1985.
11. The relevant part of Nobel's will concerning the prizes states: "My executors shall invest all the remaining capital in safe securities and pay out the interest annually as a prize to the person who shall have done the most for humanity in the previous year."
12. The Nobel Prize in Literature within the literary field requires the creation of the most excellent and ideologically inclined works in that area, which is further subdivided into the aforementioned five standards.
