1967 Nobel Prize in Literature
1967 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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Miguel Ángel Asturias | |
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Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Academy |
First awarded | 1901 |
Website | Official website |
The 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974) "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America."[1] He is the first Guatemalan and the second Latin American author to receive the prize after the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral won in 1945.[2]
Laureate
Miguel Angel Asturias first book
Deliberations
Nominations
Miguel Ángel Asturias was first nominated in 1964 by Erik Lindegren, a member of the Swedish Academy, and became an annual nominee until 1967 when he was eventually awarded with the prize. He received 3 nominations in 1967 with a single joint nomination with Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.[5][6]
In total, the Nobel Committee received 112 nominations for 69 writers including Samuel Beckett, Thornton Wilder, Lawrence Durrell, E. M. Forster, Georges Simenon, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves, André Malraux and J. R. R. Tolkien. Eighteen of the nominees were nominated first-time such as Ivan Drach, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Rabbe Enckell, Saul Bellow (awarded in 1976), Jorge Amado, György Lukács, Claude Simon (awarded in 1985), Pavlo Tychyna, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger. The highest number of nominations was for the Spanish writer José María Pemán with eight nominations from academics and literary critics. The oldest nominee was the Spanish philologist Ramón Menéndez Pidal (aged 98) and the youngest was Ukrainian poet Ivan Drach (aged 31). Five of the nominees were women namely Katherine Anne Porter, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Lina Kostenko, Anna Seghers and Judith Wright.[7]
The authors
No. | Nominee | Country | Genre(s) | Nominator(s) |
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1 | Jorge Amado (1912–2001) | Brazil | novel, short story |
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2 | Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987) | Brazil | poetry, essays | Gunnar Ekelöf (1907–1968) |
3 | Louis Aragon (1897–1982) | France | novel, short story, poetry, essays | Cyrille Arnavon (1915–1978) |
4 | Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974) | Guatemala | novel, short story, poetry, essays, drama |
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5 | Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973)
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United Kingdom United States |
poetry, essays, screenplay | Walther Braune (1900–1989) |
6 | Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) | Ireland | novel, drama, poetry |
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7 | Saul Bellow (1915–2005) | Canada United States |
novel, short story, memoir, essays | PEN Centre Germany |
8 | Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) | Argentina | poetry, essays, translation, short story |
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9 | Emil Boyson (1897–1979) | Norway | poetry, novel, translation | Asbjørn Aarnes (1923–2013) |
10 | Arturo Capdevila (1889–1967) | Argentina | poetry, drama, novel, short story, essays, history |
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11 | Josep Carner (1884–1970) | Spain | poetry, drama, translation |
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12 | Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980) | Cuba | novel, short story, essays | Lars Gyllensten (1921–2006) |
13 | René Char (1907–1988) | France | poetry | Georges Blin (1917–2015) |
14 | Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892–1997) | Iran | short story, translation | Ehsan Yarshater (1920–2018) |
15 | Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) | United Kingdom | novel, short story, poetry, drama, essays | Harald Patzer (1910–2005) |
16 | Rabbe Enckell (1903–1974) | Finland | short story, poetry | Kauko Aatos Ojala (1919–1987) |
17 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929–2022) | Germany | poetry, essays, translation | Wolfgang Baumgart (1949–2011) |
18 | Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970)
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United Kingdom | novel, short story, drama, essays, biography, literary criticism | Albrecht Dihle (1923–2020) |
19 | Max Frisch (1911–1991) | Switzerland | novel, drama |
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20 | Rómulo Gallegos (1884–1969) | Venezuela | novel, short story | Lars Gyllensten (1921–2006) |
21 | Jean Genet (1910–1986) | France | novel, autobiography, drama, screenplay, poetry, essays | Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) |
22 | Jean Giono (1895–1970) | France | novel, short story, essays, poetry, drama |
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23 | Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) | Poland | short story, novel, drama | Henry Olsson (1896–1985) |
24 | Robert Graves (1895–1985) | United Kingdom | history, novel, poetry, literary criticism, essays | John Wintour Baldwin Barns (1912–1974)
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25 | Graham Greene (1904–1991) | United Kingdom | novel, short story, autobiography, essays | Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) |
26 | Lawrence Sargent Hall (1915–1993) | United States | novel, short story, essays | Robert Brumbaugh (1918–1992) |
27 | Taha Hussein (1889–1973) | Egypt | novel, short story, poetry, translation | Jussi Aro (1928–1983) |
28 | Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994) | Romania France |
drama, essays | Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) |
29 | Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) | Germany | philosophy, novel, memoir | Rudolf Till (1911–1979) |
30 | Friedrich Georg Jünger (1898–1977) | Germany | poetry, essays, novel, drama | Fritz Schalk (1902–1980) |
31 | Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–1974) | Germany | novel, short story, essays, drama | Hermann Tiemann (1899–1981) |
32 | Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) | Japan | novel, short story | Howard Hibbett (1920–2019) |
33 | Basij Khalkhali (1918–1995) | Iran | poetry | Sadeq Rezazadeh Shafaq (1892–1971) |
34 | Väinö Linna (1920–1992) | Finland | novel | Lars Huldén (1926–2016) |
35 | György Lukács (1885–1971) | Hungary | philosophy, literary criticism | Erik Lindegren (1910–1968) |
36 | Karl Löwith (1897–1973) | Germany | philosophy | Franz Dirlmeier (1904–1977) |
37 | André Malraux (1901–1976) | France | novel, essays, literary criticism |
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38 | Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968) | Spain | philology, history |
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39 | Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) | Japan | novel, short story, drama, literary criticism | Harry Martinson (1904–1978) |
40 | Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) | Italy | poetry, translation | Uberto Limentani (1913–1989) |
41 | Henry de Montherlant (1895–1972) | France | essays, novel, drama | Pierre Grimal (1912–1996) |
42 | Alberto Moravia (1907–1990) | Italy | novel, literary criticism, essays, drama | Gustaf Fredén (1898–1987) |
43 | Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) | Chile | poetry | André Saint-Lu (1916–2009) |
44 | Junzaburō Nishiwaki (1894–1982) | Japan | poetry, literary criticism | Naoshirō Tsuji (1899–1979) |
45 | Germán Pardo García (1902–1991) | Colombia Mexico |
poetry | James Willis Robb (1918–2010) |
46 | Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968) | Russia | novel, poetry, drama | Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) |
47 | José María Pemán (1897–1981) | Spain | poetry, drama, novel, essays, screenplay |
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48 | André Pézard (1893–1984) | France | translation, essays | Wilhelm Theodor Elwert (1906–1997) |
49 | Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) | United States | short story, essays | Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994) |
50 | Ezra Pound (1885–1972) | United States | poetry, essays |
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51 | Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn Rahnamā (1894–1990) | Iran | history, essays, translation | The Iranian PEN Club |
52 | Anna Seghers (1900–1983) | Germany | novel, short story | Akademie der Künste der DDR |
53 | Georges Simenon (1903–1989) | Belgium | novel, short story, memoir | Justin O'Brien (1906–1968) |
54 | Claude Simon (1913–2005) | France | novel, essays | Erik Lindegren (1910–1968) |
55 | Charles Percy Snow (1905–1980)
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United Kingdom | novel, essays | Friedrich Schubel (1904–1991) |
56 | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973)
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United Kingdom | novel, short story, poetry, philology, essays, literary criticism | Gösta Holm (1916–2011) |
57 | Pavlo Tychyna (1891–1967) | Ukraine | poetry, translation | Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) |
58 | Ivan Drach (1936–2018) | Ukraine | poetry, literary criticism, drama | |
59 | Lina Kostenko (born 1930) | Ukraine | poetry, novel | |
60 | Pietro Ubaldi (1886–1972) | Italy | philosophy, essays | Academia Santista de Letras |
61 | Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) | United States | novel, poetry, essays, literary criticism | Franz Link (1924–2001) |
62 | Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) | Norway | poetry, novel |
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63 | Simon Vestdijk (1898–1971) | Netherlands | novel, poetry, essays, translation |
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64 | Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) | United States | drama, novel, short story |
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65 | Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) | United States | essays, literary criticism, short story, drama |
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66 | Judith Wright (1915–2000) | Australia | poetry, literary criticism, novel, essays |
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67 | Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977) | Germany | drama, screenplay |
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68 | Arnold Zweig (1887–1968) | Germany | novel, short story | Akademie der Künste der DDR |
69 | Arnulf Øverland (1889–1968) | Norway | poetry, essays | Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) |
Prize decision
Asturias was shortlisted along with
References
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1967 nobelprize.org
- New York Times. 20 October 1967. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ a b Miguel Ángel Asturias britannica.com
- ^ Miguel Angel Asturias – Facts nobelprize.org
- ^ Nomination archive – 1967 nobelprize.org
- ^ Nomination by Henry Olsson for Asturias and Borges nobelprize.org
- ^ "Nominations 1967". nobelprize.org. April 2020.
- ^ a b c Alison Flood (8 January 2018). "Nobel archives show Graham Greene might have won 1967 prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ a b Kaj Schueler (January 2018). "Hemliga dokument visar kampen om Nobelpriset". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish).
External links
- Ceremony speech by Anders Österling nobelprize.org
- 1967 Documentary nobelprize.org