Nobel Prize

Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) was born in Guatemala and spent his childhood and adolescence in his native country. He studied for his baccalaureate at the state high school and later took a law degree at the University of San Carlos. His thesis on “The Social Problem of the Indian” was published in 1923. After he…

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher. Some years later his father, who had then moved to the town of Temuco,…

Vicente Aleixandre was born in Sevilla (Spain) on April 26, 1898. He spent his childhood in Malaga and he has lived in Madrid since 1909. Studied law at the University of Madrid and at the Madrid School of Economics. Beginning in 1925 he has completely devoted himself to literature. His first book of poems, Ambit,…

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Naipaul is Truly a Nobel Man in a Free State by David Pryce-Jones The Nobel Prize for literature has gone to someone who deserves it. Like the great masters of the past, V.S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it…

Works in Italian Poetry Mal giocondo, 1889 Pasqua di Gea, 1891 Elegie renane, 1895 La Zampogna, 1901 Fuor di chiave, 1912   Short fiction Amori senza amore, 1894 Quand’ero matto, 1902 Beffe della morte e della vita. – 2 vol. – 1902-1903 Bianche e nere, 1904 Erma bifronte, 1906 La vita nuda, 1910 Terzetti, 1912…

Herta Müller was born in 1953 in Nitzkydorf, a German-speaking village in the Banat, a region that had passed from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Romania in the wake of the First World War. During the Second World War, Romania had allied with the National-Socialist German Reich, and like many of the Romanian-Germans, Herta Müller’s father…

  Verner von Heidenstam did not submit a biography.

German Günter Grass wurde 1927 als Sohn kaschubisch-deutscher Eltern in Danzig-Langfuhr geboren. Nach Kriegsdienst und amerikanischer Gefangenschaft 1944-1946 arbeitete er als Land- und Bergarbeiter und studierte Kunst in Düsseldorf und Berlin. 1956-1959 verdiente er seinen Lebensunterhalt als Bildhauer, Graphiker und Schriftsteller in Paris und danach in Berlin. 1955 wurde er zum ersten Mal zu einem…

French Günter Grass est né en 1927 à Dantzig-Langfuhr, de parents germano-polonais. Après avoir servi sous les drapeaux pendant la guerre et avoir été prisonnier des Américains de 1944 à 1946, il a travaillé comme ouvrier agricole et mineur, puis a étudié les arts plastiques à Düsseldorf et à Berlin. De 1956 à 1959, il…