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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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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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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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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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