Author nominated for the first two Nobel Prizes in Literature (5,4)

I believe the answer is:

emile zola

(Other definitions for emile zola that I've seen before include "novelist" , ""Nana" author" , "French author" , "Wrote J'Accuse in defence of Alfred Dreyfus" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times and The Times.

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