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Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize

Modern & Contemporary France, 2023
This article analyses the mass media reception of Annie Ernaux’s 2022 Nobel Prize, particularly the criticisms in the French press. After the award announcement, Ernaux was at once celebrated for her feminist writing and vilified for her socio ...
Oana Sabo
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Pearl S. Buck, Her Nobel Prize, and the Nazis

Journal of World Literature, 2023
In 1938, Pearl S. Buck was decorated with the highest literature award possible: the Nobel Prize. In most cases an award like this leads to a high increase in the symbolic capital for the author and raises the value of their books, but not for Pearl S. 
Katrin Hudey
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Arabic Literature and the Nobel Prize

World Literature Today, 1988
By ROGER ALLEN For many centuries the Arabs have constituted for the Western world an alien and often confrontational entity, a quintessential "other." The posture can be traced back at least to the Crusades, and as we know to our cost from current conflicts in Ireland, Lebanon, and the Gulf, wars based on religious belief are particularly capable of ...
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Japan’s Quest for the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Aftereffects

Journal of World Literature
This paper examines Japan’s quest for the Nobel Prize in Literature as a narrative “before” winning, and its aftereffect as a narrative “after” winning.
Takashi Inoue
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The unraveling of a Nobel Prize: How Hermann Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize: A front for eugenics

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
This paper asserts that the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology that Hermann J. Muller received in 1946 was a front to enhance the legitimacy, acceptance, and application of eugenics, a strategy to guide the direction and rate of human evolutionary ...
Edward J. Calabrese, D. Shamoun
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The Nobel Prize in Literature and Morrison’s Trilogy

2015
Morrison survived the year 1992 with its three books ( Jazz, Race-ing Justice, and Playing in the Dark) but it was difficult. She got very little new writing done. In fact, since Beloved had won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Morrison had been on the reading and lecturing circuit — and she had also been the recipient of important literary prizes ...
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[Medicine and literature: "Nobel Prize. No jokes please!" : Gottfried Benn and his nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature].

Der Urologe. Ausg. A, 2019
In the early 1950s, the German poet and physician Gottfried Benn was repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Drawing on sources from the archive of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, this essay discusses how Benn was portrayed as a Nobel nominee.
N, Hansson, T, Halling, F H, Moll
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The Nobel Prize, Mo Yan, and Contemporary Literature in China

Chinese Literature Today, 2013
Zhang Qinghua was one of the first Chinese literary critics to promote Mo Yan's work in China. In this essay, Zhang asks whether the awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to Mo Yan can finally put to rest the dichotomy that praises modern Chinese literary accomplishments by pre-WWII writers like Lu Xun while summarily dismissing the ...
Zhang Qinghua, Andrea Lingenfelter
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Polish Nobel Prize Winners in Literature: Are They Really Polish?

Chicago Review, 2000
In October of 1996, after she had received the Nobel Prize in Literature, Wislawa Szymborska was hailed by certain Swedish newspapers as the fifth Polish winner of this Prize. This was a surprise for many Polish readers, since Szymborska was supposed to be the fourth winner -- after Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905), Wladyslaw Reymont (1924) and Milosz (1980).
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The Nobel Prize in Literature in the Context of the Idea of World Literature

Tekstualia
The main goal of this essay is to discuss the Nobel Prize in literature in the context of the ideaof World Literature and its various concreti zations (from Johann Wolfgang Goethe to Georg Brandes,Itamar Even-Zohar, Pascale Casanova and David Damrosch). The essay focusses on the translationunderstood not only as a tool to win a literary prize, but also
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