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as "a masterpiece of an energetic, firm, and independent account of human nature", noting that the two trilogies "together form an unusual literary accomplishment. The novelist has carried the history of his time through three generations, and his success in mastering so excellently his enormously
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800 nominations from all over the world were collected and sent together, by Ernest S. Greene (1864–1936), secretary of a committee in New York, United States. Among the nominators were members of the French and Spanish Academies, and professors (eligible to nominate) from several
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which chronicles the lives of three generations of a large, upper-middle-class family at the turn of the 19th/20th century. Galsworthy was also a successful
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The first book in this extensive series was published in 1906. The upper middle classes and Galsworthy's own upbringing were harshly criticized in
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Frans Eemil SillanpÀÀ and Bertel Gripenberg were nominated together by Arno R. Cederberg, though the nominations have different entry numbers.
279:(1930). Of Galsworthy's 20 novels, nine are about the Forsytes (the last three tangentially so) and the other eleven are all one-off stories. 172:". When Galworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, only the second English author to receive the award since its inception in 1901. 3454: 1782:
Rudolf Kassner was nominated by a number of German, Austrian and Swiss professors, most of whom were eligible to nominate a candidate.
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difficult material, both in its scope and in its depth, remains an extremely memorable feat in English literature"
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The choice of John Galsworthy caused a group of young Swedish authors to protest against the
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In total, the Nobel Committee received 48 nominations for 31 writers which included
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and 1932) before he was awarded the prize in 1932. His first nomination came from
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who examined controversial ethical or social problems in plays such as
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Several were members of the French Academy (Académie Française), and
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Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize
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died in 1932 without having been nominated for the prize.
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drama, novel, short story, essays, literary criticism
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John Galsworthy is best known for the novel sequence
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Stockholm
Swedish Academy
Official website
1931
Nobel Prize in Literature
1933
Nobel Prize in Literature
John Galsworthy
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy
The Forsyte Saga
playwright
Strife
Justice
Loyalties

World War I
1919
1922
1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Swedish Academy
Anders Österling
Martin Lamm
Henrik SchĂŒck
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Ivan Bunin
1933

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