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Princeton, NJ). A large number of nominations were also made by individuals whose eligibility to nominate was not confirmed.
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work remains. The tragic world of chance is outshone by the imperishable summer realm of poetry. Before our eyes we see the tomb in the dusk of winter. At the same time we hear the great victorious harmonies sung by the happiness of the creative genius; we feel the scents from the
Northern pleasure garden that his poetry created for the comfort and joy of all receptive hearts.
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Thus the decision to honour the poetry of Erik Axel
Karlfeldt with this yearâs Nobel Prize is intended as an expression of justice by international standards. Death has stepped between the laureate and his reward; under the circumstances the Prize will be given to his family. He has left us, but his
170:(1864â1931) with the citation: "The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt." He was the third Swede to win the prize and remains the only recipient to be posthumously awarded. Karlfeldt had been offered the award already in 1919 but refused to accept it, because of his position as permanent secretary to the
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frequently appears in his poetry to convey his humor, sadness, longings, and mood. His poetry exhibits a superb command of words. Karlfeldt explored the potential offered by his imagination and poetry as an artistic medium, even though he had a strong bond with his home country and its customs.
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Nominations from individuals, mostly professors, eligible to make nominations came from
Algiers, Barcelona, Breslau, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Dublin, Glasgow, Granada, Groningen, Copenhagen, La Laguna, La Plata, Leeds, London, Madrid, Mexico, Montevideo, Murcia, Naples, Paris, Pothiers, Porto,
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Karlfeldt's poetry is strongly influenced by the customs and environment of his childhood. But the area started to mirror the universal by becoming more and more of a microcosm. His art is primarily wild in character, marked by austerity and an antipathy to egotism. His alter ego, Fridolin,
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Paul Ernst was nominated by 6 professors of the
University in Zurich who signed the previous year's nomination, as well as a further 14 professors from Germany, Bohemia and Switzerland, at least four of whom were eligible to nominate a
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The prize was controversial not just because it was the first and only time the Nobel Prize in
Literature was awarded posthumously, but because the Academy had previously awarded two other Swedish writers of the same literary era,
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the
Swedish Academy's decision to posthumously award an author, particularly one who had refused to accept it before, was questioned and said to be against the purpose of the award. A positive reaction was however expressed in
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saying that while the award to
Karlfeldt was surprising it "on closer deliberation prove to be not just justifiable but beautiful". Internationally, it was heavily criticized as few had heard of Karlfeldt.
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Academy members from Bordeaux, La Paz (Bolivia), Lima, Madrid, Salamanca, Valencia and Zaragoza nominated Concha Espina.
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Kassner was nominated by 19 people, at least 10 of whom were Austrian, German and Swiss professors, eligible to make nominations.
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His wife, Gerda HolmbergâKarlfeldt, was the one who received the Nobel diploma, medal and monetary prize worth SEK173,206 from King
1974:
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Georg Bonne was nominated by a number of other professors, of which at least 4 were eligible to make a nomination for the Prize.
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In total, the Nobel committee received 49 nominations for 29 writers. Ten of the nominees are nominated first-time among them
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Kullmann's nomination (he appeared to be eligible to make a nomination), along with that of three other Russians living in
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died in 1931 without having been nominated for the prize. Norwegian-American author
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52 representatives at universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
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Kostis Palamas was also nominated by professors of Modern Greek in
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1898:"Nobelpriset i litteratur. Nomineringar och utlĂ„tanden 1901â1950"
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Karlfeldt was nominated in 10 different occasions starting in
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Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize
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7 members of the Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, Brussels
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Sigurd Agrell proposes that the Prize be shared by both
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6 members of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Toledo
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19 professors from Austria, Germany and Switzerland
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14 professors from Germany, Bohemia and Switzerland
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1594:In the award ceremony held on 10 December 1931,
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1830:Andens olympiska spel: Nobelprisets historia
1689:, France, was forwarded by cabinet minister
1832:, Fri Tanke Förlag 2021, ISBN 9789180203715
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774:novel, drama, essays, short story, memoir
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1954:Award ceremony speech by Anders Ăsterling
1869:Nomination archive â Erik Axel Karlfeldt
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527:Vladimir Andreevich Frantsev (1867â1942)
687:Luis Redonet y LĂłpez-DĂłriga (1875â1972)
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1199:Juan Miguel Dihigo Mestre (1866â1952)
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174:(1913â1931), which awards the prize.
1938:100 nobelpris i litteratur 1901â2001
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980:Johannes BrĂžndum-Nielsen (1881â1977)
348:died weeks before the announcement.
49:"The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt."
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903:novel, poetry, short story, essays
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1814:The Nobel Prize in Literature 1931
1533:poetry, philosophy, essays, drama
1334:novel, short story, essays, drama
1301:novel, poetry, literary criticism
596:novel, short story, drama, essays
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245:with 8 nominations followed by
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27:1931 Nobel Prize in Literature
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1163:novel, essays, poetry, drama
861:Johannes Sundwall (1877â1966)
63:8 October 1931 (announcement)
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1120:Real Academia de la Historia
989:Frederik Poulsen (1876â1950)
941:poetry, songwriting, essays
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1845:Erik Axel Karlfeldt â Facts
1500:novel, short story, poetry
1379:novel, short story, essays
974:novel, short story, poetry
503:short story, novel, poetry
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1271:Simos Menardos (1871â1933)
1111:Lisbon Academy of Sciences
858:Rolf Lagerborg (1874â1959)
524:Alexander Kaun (1889â1944)
396:Carl Heldmann (1869â1943)
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1995:Nobel Prize in Literature
1881:Nomination archive â 1931
1587:and permanent secretary,
1383:Laurence Marcellus Larson
1095:The Nobel Prize Committee
691:Francisco RodrĂguez MarĂn
652:The Nobel Prize Committee
620:Concha Espina de la Serna
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811:Andreas Hofgaard Winsnes
747:Erik Staaff (1867â1936)
712:Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano
702:Ricardo LeĂłn (1877â1943)
377:Georg Bonne (1859â1945)
1766:("The Road Back", 1931)
1393:Johann Rump (1871â1941)
956:Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
298:Mary St. Leger Kingsley
2957:Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez
2810:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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1131:Santiago RamĂłn y Cajal
852:poetry, drama, essays
314:John Gambril Nicholson
2902:Isaac Bashevis Singer
2777:Miguel Ăngel Asturias
2450:Frans Eemil SillanpÀÀ
2181:Verner von Heidenstam
2036:BjĂžrnstjerne BjĂžrnson
1619:Verner von Heidenstam
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1482:Frans Eemil SillanpÀÀ
1126:Royal Spanish Academy
984:Anton Wilhelm BrĂžgger
405:Ivana BrliÄ-MaĆŸuraniÄ
255:Ivana BrliÄ-MaĆŸuraniÄ
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2428:Roger Martin du Gard
1316:Erich Maria Remarque
1305:Ramón Menéndez Pidal
1283:RamĂłn PĂ©rez de Ayala
1208:Martin Andersen NexĂž
1069:Ramón Menéndez Pidal
807:poetry, translation
697:Antoni RubiĂł i Lluch
604:University of Zurich
602:6 professors of the
515:Nikolaj Kullmann (?)
326:John Lawson Stoddard
243:Ramón Menéndez Pidal
239:Ramón Menéndez Pidal
235:RamĂłn PĂ©rez de Ayala
231:Erich Maria Remarque
166:to the Swedish poet
164:posthumously awarded
3331:Svetlana Alexievich
2673:Salvatore Quasimodo
2359:Erik Axel Karlfeldt
2293:George Bernard Shaw
2150:Rabindranath Tagore
2128:Maurice Maeterlinck
1922:1931 Award ceremony
1857:Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1778:Giants in the Earth
1675:Dmitry Merezhkovsky
1462:novel, short story
1226:novel, short story
1145:Dmitry Merezhkovsky
1087:philology, history
1001:Erik Axel Karlfeldt
638:novel, short story
563:novel, short story
437:novel, short story
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322:Hara Prasad Shastri
310:George Herbert Mead
184:Erik Axel Karlfeldt
168:Erik Axel Karlfeldt
34:Erik Axel Karlfeldt
3276:Mario Vargas Llosa
3254:J. M. G. Le Clézio
3111:WisĆawa Szymborska
2891:Vicente Aleixandre
2762:Shmuel Yosef Agnon
2640:Juan Ramón Jiménez
2508:Johannes V. Jensen
2196:Henrik Pontoppidan
2062:Henryk Sienkiewicz
1828:Gustav KĂ€llstrand
1630:Stockholms Dagblad
1349:Ole Edvart RĂžlvaag
1265:10 members of the
1178:Laura Mestre Hevia
1124:27 members of the
1118:21 members of the
1109:14 members of the
1099:Society of Authors
672:Alfred Baudrillart
656:Society of Authors
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346:Ole Edvart RĂžlvaag
251:Laura Mestre Hevia
227:Ole Edvart RĂžlvaag
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3287:Tomas Tranströmer
2788:Yasunari Kawabata
2751:Mikhail Sholokhov
2607:Winston Churchill
2282:WĆadysĆaw Reymont
2260:Jacinto Benavente
2139:Gerhart Hauptmann
1637:Svenska Dagbladet
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1417:theology, essays
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1267:Academy of Athens
822:Bertel Gripenberg
666:Jacinto Benavente
318:Arthur Schnitzler
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3265:Herta MĂŒller
3188:Imre Kertész
3155:Gao Xingjian
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3089:KenzaburĆ Će
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1550:(1881â1932)
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1517:(1871â1945)
1506:(1879â1946)
1504:Rafael Erich
1484:(1888â1964)
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3045:Octavio Paz
2880:Saul Bellow
2766:Nelly Sachs
2552:T. S. Eliot
2337:Thomas Mann
2271:W. B. Yeats
2227:Knut Hamsun
1907:11 November
1515:Paul Valéry
1471:Thomas Mann
1338:Tor Hedberg
1133:(1852â1934)
986:(1884â1951)
912:Thomas Mann
899:Switzerland
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