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Transnational Activism against Genocide Denial: Protesting Peter Handke’s Nobel Prize in Literature

Nationalities Papers, 2023
This article addresses the protest against the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Peter Handke as an example of transnational memory activism. It analyzes from a transnational mobilization perspective how activists achieved a globally visible protest in ...
Johanna Paul
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Changing perspectives: France’s post-war laureates and the Nobel Prize for Literature

French Cultural Studies, 2017
Colin Nettelbeck
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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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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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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 ...
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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 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, 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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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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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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