Nobel Prize

by Sture Packalén* This article was published on 30 November 2005. Record number of prizes Within a space of ten years at the beginning of the twentieth century, four writers in German were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: (1902), (1908), (1910) and (1912). This is a record that has yet to be surpassed by…

Aspects of the Nobel Prize for Literature by Professor Sture AllénThe Swedish Academy, Sweden This article was published on 23 July 1997. One of the many subjects treated vituperatively by August Strindberg in his “Addresses to the Swedish Nation”, 1910, was the choice in 1901 of the first Nobel Laureate in literature, : “Moreover, the…

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Nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature each year (1901-1950) The number of nominations presented here are the total number of nominations that particular year – not the number of suggested induviduals, nor the number of approved nominations the particular Nobel Laureate recieved that year. All information concerning the nominations and selections of the Nobel…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1928 In her first novels or novellas, all of them remarkable works, Sigrid Undset painted the present-day world of young women in the environs of Christiania. It was a restless generation, prompt to make the gravest decisions as soon…

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I was born on June 2, 1857, in the Roholte vicarage at Praestö. My father was Pastor Carl Adolph Gjellerup, my mother, Anna Fibiger. After my father’s death in 1860, in Landet vicarage on Lolland (from which I still have a number of memories), I went in November of the same year to the home…

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister. My mother, whose maiden name was Oxenbøl, was the daughter of a government official. They had sixteen children. One of the middle ones in the flock, I was born on July 24, 1857, in the small Jutland town of…

Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations by Anders Hallengren This article was published on 16 October 2003. “I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four…