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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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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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Shadows on the Nobel Prize for literature in the past decade

2021
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The Entangled Histories of the Nobel Prize in Literature and PEN

Journal of World Literature
Abstract Drawing on archival records, this paper explores the interrelation and modes of interaction between two major institutions of world literature: the Nobel Prize and PEN, with special attention paid to Swedish PEN and its activities from 1950 into the 1970s.
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Is the Nobel Prize an Award for World Literature?

2019
What does the concept of "world literature" include? Is there a second plan and а backstage in literary processes of our globalized modernity? Is the road from the sensation to the canon obvious? The book "Is the Nobel Prize an Award for World Literature?" examines these and other questions, offering insightful and erudite readings of the widely ...
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Motivations, Functions, and Effects of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Tekstualia
The main purpose of Edward Kasperski’s article, developed from a paper for the international conferenceNobel Prizes in Literature: A Bridge Between Cultures in 2011 in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria,is to discuss the Nobel award’s motivations, effects, and functions, to point out paradoxes associatedwith it, infl uences of the media, technology, and the ...
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The Nobel Prize Winners: Literature

World Literature Today, 1988
Theodore Ziolkowski, Frank N. Magill
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The Nobel Prize in Literature—-Defining a Great Book

Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
The Nobel Prize is essential and highly valued in literature. However, the debate about the Nobel Prize’s authority and criticism has always existed. This work provides a systematic summary of the criticism of the Nobel Prize in Literature and argues that the Nobel Prize is not authentic enough to define a “great” book from the aspect of Nationality ...
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