1952 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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François Mauriac | |
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Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Academy |
First awarded | 1901 |
Website | Official website |
The 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French Catholic writer François Mauriac (1885–1970) "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life."[1] He is the eight French author to receive the prize after the novelist André Gide in 1947.
Laureate
François Mauriac made his breakthrough with the poetry book Les Mains jointes ("Clasped Hands", 1909), but went on to become as a dramatist and novelist. His works are frequently set in and around
Deliberations
Nominations
In total, the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee received 57 nominations for 40 writers. Fourteen of the nominees were newly nominated such as Paul Vialar, Juan Ramón Jiménez (awarded in 1956), Walter de la Mare, Julien Benda, Salvador de Madariaga, Albert Schweitzer (awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize), Werner Bergengruen, and Van Wyck Brooks. Only one female author was nominate: Spanish author Concha Espina de la Serna.[4]
The authors
No. | Nominee | Country | Genre(s) | Nominator(s) |
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1 | Mark Aldanov (1886–1957) | Soviet Union ( Ukraine) France |
biography, novel, essays, literary criticism | Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) |
2 | Louis Artus (1870–1960) | France | drama, novel, literary criticism, essays |
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3 | Julien Benda (1867–1956) | France | novel, philosophy, essays, literary criticism | Hans Peter Sørensen (1886–1962) |
4 | Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964) | Germany | novel, short story, poetry | Hans Neumann (1903–1990) |
5 | Jacobus Cornelis Bloem (1887–1966) | Netherlands | poetry, essays | The Dutch PEN-Club |
6 | Van Wyck Brooks (1886–1963) | United States | literary criticism, biography, history, essays |
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7 | Albert Camus (1913–1960) | France ( Algeria) |
novel, short story, essays, philosophy, drama | Hjalmar Gullberg (1898–1961) |
8 | Hans Carossa (1878–1956) | Germany | poetry, autobiography, essays | Hans Heinrich Borcherdt (1887–1964) |
9 | Winston Churchill (1874–1965) | United Kingdom | history, essays, memoir |
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10 | Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) | Italy | history, philosophy, law |
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11 | Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) | United Kingdom | novel, short story, poetry, literary criticism, essays | Harry Martinson (1904–1978) |
12 | Salvador de Madariaga (1886–1978) | Spain | essays, history, law, novel | Sigurd Erixon (1888–1968) |
13 | Concha Espina de la Serna (1869–1955) | Spain | novel, short story |
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14 | José Maria Ferreira de Castro (1898–1978) | Portugal | novel | João de Barros (1881–1960) |
15 | Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970)
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United Kingdom | novel, short story, drama, essays, biography, literary criticism | The English PEN-Club |
16 | Robert Frost (1874–1963) | United States | poetry, drama | Edwin Harrison Cady (1917–2003) |
17 | Manuel Gálvez (1882–1962) | Argentina | novel, poetry, drama, essays, history, biography | Sociedad Argentina de Escritores |
18 | Jean Giono (1895–1970) | France | novel, short story, essays, poetry, drama | Société des gens de lettres |
19 | Enrique González Martínez (1871–1952) | Mexico | poetry | Academia Mexicana de la Lengua |
20 | Graham Greene (1904–1991) | United Kingdom | novel, short story, autobiography, essays | Hjalmar Gullberg (1898–1961) |
21 | Taha Hussein (1889–1973) | Egypt | novel, short story, poetry, translation | Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen (1866–1953) |
22 | Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) | Spain | poetry, novel | Maurice Bowra (1898–1971) |
23 | Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) | Greece | novel, philosophy, essays, drama, memoir, translation | Norwegian Authors' Union |
24 | Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) | Iceland | novel, short story, drama, poetry |
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25 | André Malraux (1901–1976) | France | novel, essays, literary criticism | Jean-Marie Carré (1887–1958) |
26 | François Mauriac (1885–1970) | France | novel, short story |
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27 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968) | Spain | philology, history |
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28 | Charles Plisnier (1896–1952) | Belgium | novel, short story, poetry, essays |
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29 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) | India | philosophy, essays, law | The Indian PEN-Club |
30 | Henriette Roland Holst (1869–1952) | Netherlands | poetry, essays, biography | The Dutch PEN-Club |
31 | Jules Romains (1885–1972) | France | poetry, drama, screenplay |
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32 | Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) | United States | poetry, essays, biography | Axel Boëthius (1889–1969) |
33 | Jean Schlumberger (1877–1968) | France | poetry, essays | International Centre of the PEN Club |
34 | Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) | France Germany |
philosophy, theology, essays | Nils Ahnlund (1889–1957) |
35 | Zalman Shneour (1887–1959) | Belarus United States |
poetry, essays |
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36 | Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) | Norway | poetry, novel | Olav Midttun (1883–1972) |
37 | Simon Vestdijk (1898–1971) | Netherlands | novel, poetry, essays, translation | The Dutch PEN-Club |
38 | Paul Vialar (1898–1996) | France | novel, short story, essays, drama | Société des gens de lettres |
39 | Mika Waltari (1908–1979) | Finland | short story, novel, poetry, drama, essays, screenplay | Aarne Anttila (1892–1952) |
40 | John Dover Wilson (1881–1969) | United Kingdom | essays, literary criticism | Charles Jasper Sisson (1885–1966) |
References
- ^ Nobel Prize in Literature 1952 nobelprize.org
- ^ François Mauriac – Facts nobelprize.org
- ^ François Mauriac britannica.com
- ^ Nomination archive – 1952 nobelprize.org
External links
- Award Ceremony speech nobelprize.org