Literature

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1937 The recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1937, Roger Martin du Gard, has dedicated most of his activity to a single work, a long series of novels with the collective title, Les Thibault (1922-40). It is a vast work…

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Press release

The following account of the work of Verner von Heidenstam is by Sven Söderman, Swedish Critic In the constellation of original artists who regenerated Swedish poetry at the end of the last century, Verner von Heidenstam was the most brilliant star. He was the leader of the generation of poets of 1890; he was the…

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Biographical

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by…

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Bibliography

Swedish Günter Grass född 1927 i Danzig-Langfuhr av polsk-tyska föräldrar. Efter krigstjänst och amerikansk fångenskap 1944-46 arbetade han som lant- och gruvarbetare, studerade konst i Düsseldorf och Berlin. Försörjde sig 1956-59 som skulptör, grafiker och författare i Paris, därefter i Berlin. Grass inträdde 1955 i den samhällskritiska Gruppe 47 (senare hyllad i Mötet i Telgte),…

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