Nobel Prize

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) belonged to the group of writers who, in the wake of Spain’s loss of her colonies to the United States (1898), staged a literary revival. The leader of this group of modernistas, as they called themselves, Rubén Darío, helped Juan Ramón to publish Almas de violeta (Souls of Violet), 1900, his…

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Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1922 Jacinto Benavente has devoted his imaginative gifts mainly to the theatre, and it seems as if he has systematically guided the course of his development in this direction through many varieties of experience. But with this imaginative artist,…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the , December 10, 1945 Today Johannes V. Jensen will receive in person the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1944, and we are happy to salute the great Danish writer who since the beginning of the century has been in the front rank, always active, for a…

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French Le secrétaire perpétuel Communiqué de presse Le 11 octobre 2007 Prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2007 Doris Lessing Le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2007 est attribué à l’écrivain anglais « la conteuse épique de l’expérience féminine, qui avec scepticisme, ardeur et une force visionnaire scrute une civilisation divisée ». Académie Suédoise

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The following account of the work of Karl Gjellerup is by Sven Söderman, Swedish Critic Karl Gjellerup was born in 1857 and died on October 13, 1919. Like Henrik Pontoppidan, he came from a family of ministers. He chose a career in the clergy although he felt no special calling for it; rather his inclinations…

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