The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Literature, 1901-1950

Year:	1901
Number:	11-1
Nominee:
Name:	Frederi (Frédéric) Mistral
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1830
Year, death:	1914
Profession:	Poet
Country:	FR (FRANCE)
Received prize:	lit 1904 »
Motivation:	"Oeuvres, texte et traduction" ('Works, text and translation'). "Mireille". "Calendau" ('Calendau'), 1887. "Les îles d'or" ('The Golden Isles'), 1889. "La reine Jeanne, tragédie provençale" ('Queen Jeanne, a Provencal Tragedy'). "Le poème du Rhône en 12 chants" ('The Song of the Rhone'). "Nerto, provençal. Erzählung" ('Nerto, Provençal. Anecdote'). "Mirèio, provençal. Dichtung" ('Mirèio, Provençal. Poetry').
Nominators:	Mistral was nominated through professor Koschwitz, Marburg, by the following professors in romance philology: J.U. Jarnik, Prague, A. Mussafia, Vienna, K. Vollmöller, Göttingen, A. Kissner, Königsberg, G. Baist, Freiburg, K. Voretzsch, Tübingen, M. Friedwagner, Czernowitz, H. Schneegans, Würzburg, H. Suchier, Halle, Fr. Neumann, Heidelberg, W. Cloëtta, Jena, Th. Gartner, Innsbruck, Alb. Stimming, Göttingen, H. Schuchardt, Graz, G. Gröber, Strassburg, E. Böhmer, Strassburg, E. Mérimée, Toulouse, E. Ritter, Genève, L. Constans, Aix, Paul Meyer, Paris.
Comment:	MireÌio : a Provençal poem / translated by Harriet W. Preston. – Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1872 Anglora : the song of the Rhone / translation from the modern Provençal by Maro Beath Jones. – Claremont, Calif., Saunders Studio Press, 1937