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Ernest Hemingway and the Nobel Prize for Literature

The Hemingway Review, 2008
Nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature are kept classified for 50 years, which means that the documents nominating Hemingway, the 1954 winner, were opened in January 2005. Researcher Ove Swensson examined Hemingway's file at the Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, and here reveals the contents of the nominating documents and of ...
Svensson, Ove G.
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The Nobel Literature Prize and Peacebuilding

Journal of World Literature, 2023
Abstract Organized as part of the Cultural Olympiad for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, “The Nobel Laureates of Literature: An Olympic Gathering” featured the largest ever assembly of Nobel laureates in literature for a single occasion. It was expected that the eight writers in attendance, namely Joseph Brodsky, Czesław Miłosz, Toni Morrison ...
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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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The Nobel Prize for Literature

2017
Between the awarding of this important global prize and Steinbeck’s death in late 1968, he benefits from the prestige of having won the award—invited to tour for his country, receiving other kinds of awards. As his health deteriorates, he more frequently turns to journalism—doing a series of dispatches from Vietnam, and publishing his last book ...
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The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

2023
An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture. Few scholars would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world’s
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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 “Pride” Phenomenon: An analysis of Nobel Prize discoveries and their recognition

Research Policy
International audienceThe Nobel Prize is considered one of the highest forms of recognition of scientific accomplishment, conferring immense prestige upon its recipients.
Max Von Zedtwitz, Tobias Gutmann
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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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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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