1945 Nobel Prize in Literature
1945 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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Gabriela Mistral | |
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Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Academy |
First awarded | 1901 |
Website | Official website |
The 1945
Laureate
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga borrowed the pseudonym, Gabriela Mistral, from her favorite poets,
Deliberations
Nominations
Mistral received eight nominations beginning in
The French poet Paul Valéry was nominated for the tenth, eleventh and twelfth time by three members of the Swedish Academy. It is believed that the Academy intended to award Valéry the prize in 1945, but he died in July.[8]
The authors Maurice Baring, Ursula Bethell, Robert Brasillach, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ernst Cassirer, Mário de Andrade, Margaret Deland, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Robert Desnos, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Maurice Donnay, Alfred Douglas, E. R. Eddison, Ioan Constantin Filitti, Zinaida Gippius, Ellen Glasgow, Josef Hora, Régis Messac, Arthur Morrison, Otto Neurath, Kitaro Nishida, Charles Gilman Norris, Else Lasker-Schüler, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Alexander Roda Roda, Felix Salten, Lurana W. Sheldon, Antal Szerb, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Charles Williams died in 1945 without having been nominated for the prize. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga and Austrian-Bohemian author Franz Werfel died months before the announcement.
No. | Nominee | Country | Genre(s) | Nominator(s) |
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1 | Elisaveta Bagryana (1893–1991) | Bulgaria | poetry, translation | Stefan Mladenov (1880–1963)[a] |
2 | Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) | Soviet Union ( Ukraine) |
philosophy, theology | Alf Nyman (1884–1968) |
3 | Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) | United Kingdom | poetry, essays, biography | Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980) |
4 | Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947) |
Portugal | poetry, essays | António Baião (1878–1961) |
5 | Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) | France | novel, short story, poetry, drama, literary criticism | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) |
6 | Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) | United States United Kingdom |
poetry, essays, drama | Anders Österling (1884–1981) |
7 | Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) | Norway | novel, short story, essays | Eugenia Kielland (1878–1969) |
8 | Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970)
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United Kingdom | novel, short story, drama, essays, biography, literary criticism | Greta Hedin (1889–1949) |
9 | Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) | Netherlands | history |
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10 | Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) | Chile | poetry | Elin Wägner (1882–1949) |
11 | Arvid Mörne (1876–1946) | Finland | poetry, drama, novel, essays | Gustav Suits (1883–1956) |
12 | Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947) | Switzerland | novel, poetry, short story | Marcel Raymond (1897–1981)[b] |
13 | Jules Romains (1885–1972) | France | poetry, drama, screenplay | Holger Sten (1907–1971) |
14 | John Steinbeck (1902–1968) | United States | novel, short story, screenplay | Gustaf Munthe (1896–1962)
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15 | Yiorgos Theotokas (1906–1966) | Greece | novel, short story, drama, essays | Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) |
16 | Marie Under (1883–1980) | Soviet Union ( Estonia) |
poetry | Ants Oras (1900–1982) |
17 | Paul Valéry (1871–1945) | France | poetry, philosophy, essays, drama |
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18 | Franz Werfel (1890–1945) | Czechoslovakia | novel, short story, drama, poetry |
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Notes
References
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 nobelprize.org
- New York Times.
- – via Taylor & Francis Online.
- ^ a b "Gabriela Mistral". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ^ Gabriela Mistral – Facts nobelprize.org
- ^ Nomination archive – Gabriela (Lucile) Mistral (Godoy y Alcayaga) nobelprize.org
- ^ Nomination archive – 1945 nobelprize.org
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature - Nominations and reports 1901-1950". nobelprize.org.
External links
- Presentation Speech by Hjalmar Gullberg nobelprize.org