 Towards the end of the 20th century, electronic literature developed due to the development of hypertext and later the world wide web.The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded annually throughout the century (with the exception of 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940–1943), the first laureate (1901) being Sully Prudhomme.The New York Times Best Seller list has been published since 1942.