1935 Nobel Prize in Literature
1935 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Academy |
First awarded | 1901 |
Currently held by | none |
Website | Official website |
The 1935 Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded after the Swedish Academy decided that no author in the field of literature was a suitable candidate.[1] Hence, the prize money for this year was 1⁄3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2⁄3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.[2]
Deliberations
Nominations
Despite no author(s) being awarded for the 1935 prize, numerous literary critics, societies and academics still sent nominations to the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy. In total, the Nobel Committee received 52 nominations for 38 authors like Frans Eemil Sillanpää (awarded in 1939), Johannes V. Jensen (awarded in 1944), Paul Valéry, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Roger Martin du Gard (awarded in 1937) and H. G. Wells.[3]
Fourteen of the nominees were newly recommended for the prize such as
The authors Henri Barbusse, Ioan Bianu, Arthur Hoey Davis (known as Steele Rudd), Clarence Day, Ella Loraine Dorsey, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Katharine Green, Kaitarō Hasegawa, Mary R. P. Hatch, Louise Manning Hodgkins, Winifred Holtby, Panait Istrati, James Leslie Mitchell (known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Violet Paget (known as Vernon Lee), Fernando Pessoa, Lizette Woodworth Reese, George William Russell, Tsubouchi Shōyō, Kurt Tucholsky, William Watson and Stanley G. Weinbaum died in 1935 without having been nominated for the prize.
No. | Nominee | Country | Genre(s) | Nominator(s) |
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1 | Rufino Blanco Fombona (1874–1944) | Venezuela | essays, literary criticism | Several professors from American universities |
2 | Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938) | Yugoslavia | novel, short story | Gavro Manojlović (1856–1939) |
3 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
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United Kingdom | philosophy, theology, essays, literary criticism, novel, short story, poetry | Torsten Fogelqvist (1880–1941) |
4 | Violet Clifton (1883–1961) | United Kingdom | biography, essays | Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) |
5 | António Correia de Oliveira (1878–1960) | Portugal | poetry |
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6 | James Cousins (1873–1956) | Ireland British India |
poetry, drama, essays, literary criticism | Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) |
7 | Karel Čapek (1890–1938) | Czechoslovakia | drama, novel, short story, essays, literary criticism |
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8 | Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947) | Portugal | poetry, essays | Bento Carqueja (1860–1935) |
9 | Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) | Spain | novel, poetry, philosophy, essays, drama | Esteban Madruga Jiménez (1890–1980) |
10 | Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958) | France | novel, drama, memoir |
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11 | Olav Duun (1876–1939) | Norway | novel, short story |
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12 | James George Frazer (1854–1941) | United Kingdom | history, essays, translation | Jarl Charpentier (1884–1935) |
13 | Franz Karl Ginzkey (1871–1963) | Austria | poetry, short story, essays | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) |
14 | Vilhelm Grønbech (1873–1948) | Denmark | history, essays, poetry | Sven Lönborg (1871–1959) |
15 | Jarl Hemmer (1893–1944) | Finland | poetry, novel | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) |
16 | Ricarda Huch (1864–1947) | Germany | history, essays, novel, poetry | Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956) |
17 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950)
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Denmark | novel, short story, poetry |
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18 | Guðmundur Kamban (1888–1945) | Iceland | novel, drama | Bengt Hesselman (1875–1952) |
19 | Rudolf Kassner (1873–1959) | Austria | philosophy, essays, translation | 6 professors of the University of Zurich |
20 | Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1878–1962) | Austria | novel, short story, poetry, drama | Hans-Friedrich Rosenfeld (1899–1993) |
21 | Sven Lönborg (1871–1959) | Sweden | philosophy, history, pedagogy, essays | Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) |
22 | John Masefield (1878–1967) | United Kingdom | poetry, drama, novel, short story, essays, autobiography | Anders Österling (1884–1981) |
23 | Émile Mâle (1862–1954) | France | history | Emil Rodhe (1863–1936) |
24 | Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941) | Soviet Union | novel, essays, poetry, drama | Sigurd Agrell (1881–1937) |
25 | Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) | United States | drama | Martin Lamm (1880–1950) |
26 | Kostis Palamas (1859–1943) | Greece | poetry, essays |
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27 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) | India | philosophy, essays, law | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) |
28 | Víctor Manuel Rendón (1859–1940) | Ecuador | novel, poetry, drama, biography, essays, translation | Celiano Monge Navarrete (1856–1940) |
29 | Elise Richter (1865–1943) | Austria | philology |
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30 | Jules Romains (1885–1972) | France | poetry, drama, screenplay | Fredrik Böök (1883–1961) |
31 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) | Finland | novel, short story, poetry |
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32 | Hermann Stehr (1864–1940) | Germany | novel, short story, poetry, drama | Hermann August Korff (1882–1963) |
33 | Dezső Szabó (1879–1945) | Hungary | novel, essays | Björn Collinder (1894–1983) |
34 | Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875–1943) | Soviet Union Mandatory Palestine |
poetry, essays, translation | Joseph Klausner (1874–1958) |
35 | Paul Valéry (1871–1945) | France | poetry, philosophy, essays, drama |
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36 | Edvarts Virza (1883–1940) | Latvia | poetry, essays, translation |
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37 | Herbert George Wells (1866–1946)
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United Kingdom | novel, short story, essays, history, biography | Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) |
38 | Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński (1859–1944) | Poland | philology, history, translation, essays | Several professors at the University of Warsaw |
Prize decision
In 1935, the Nobel Committee shortlisted the authors
Notes
- ^ All eight were professors of history of literature at the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia.
- ^ Three professors of literature and/or history from the University of Athens, Greece.
- anti-semitism and the Nazi movement was "unacceptable and unwelcoming". Hallström then convinced his fellow committee members to not award him and any other writers against Adolf Hitler.[4]
References
- ^ "Why was no Nobel Prize for Literature awarded in 1935?". history.stackexchange.com. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1935 nobelprize.org
- ^ a b Nomination archive – Literature 1935 nobelprize.org
- ^ a b c The Nobel Prize in Literature: Nominations and Reports 1901–1950 nobelprize.org
- ^ Gustav Källstrand Andens Olympiska Spel: Nobelprisets historia, Fri Tanke 2021