1946 Nobel Prize in Literature
 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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| Hermann Hesse | |
 "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style" | |
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| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Presented by | Swedish Academy |
| First awarded | 1901 |
| Website | Official website |
The 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German author Hermann Hesse "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style".[1]
Laureate
[edit]Hermann Hesse was a novelist and a poet whose writings are influenced by the likes of Francis of Assisi, Buddha, Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky. His best known works – Demian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), Der Steppenwolf (1927), and Das Glasperlenspiel ("The Glass Bead Game", 1943) – deals with the individual's search for self-knowledge and spirituality, often through mysticism.[2]
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Deliberations
[edit]Nominations
[edit]Hermann Hesse was nominated for the prize eight times, first in 1931 by the 1929 Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann. In 1946 the Nobel committee received one nomination for Hesse by the Swiss literature professor and author Robert Faesi, and one nomination by Anders Österling of the Swedish Academy.[3]
In total, the Nobel committee received 32 nominations for 22 writers including Nikolai Berdyaev, T. S. Eliot (awarded in 1948), E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells, Arnulf Øverland, Georges Duhamel, and Marie Under. Nine of the authors were first-time nominated namely André Gide (awarded in 1947), François Mauriac (awarded in 1952), Winston Churchill (awarded in 1953), Boris Pasternak (awarded in 1958), Sholem Asch, Tarjei Vesaas, Angelos Sikelianos and Ignazio Silone. The Swiss author Charles Ferdinand Ramuz was the most nominated with four nominations. Marie Under and Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício were the only women nominated.[4]
The authors Marion Angus, Octave Aubry, Eduard Bass, John Langalibalele Dube, Ronald Fangen, Constance Garnett, Harley Granville-Barker, Amir Hamzah, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Violet Jacob, Orrick Glenday Johns, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Ernest Rhys, Alfred Rosenberg, Damon Runyon, Thomas Scott-Ellis, Edward Sheldon, Mary Amelia St. Clair (known as May Sinclair), Gertrude Stein, Booth Tarkington and Ibn Zaydan died in 1946 without having been nominated for the prize.
| No. | Nominee | Country | Genre(s) | Nominator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sholem Asch (1880–1957) |  Poland United States
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novel, short story, drama, essays | Walter Arthur Berendsohn (1884–1984) |
| 2 | Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) |  Soviet Union(  Ukraine)
|
philosophy, theology | Alf Nyman (1884–1968) |
| 3 | Winston Churchill (1874–1965) |  United Kingdom
|
history, essays, memoir | Axel Romdahl (1880–1951) |
| 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 |
|
| 7 | Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970) | United Kingdom
|
novel, short story, drama, essays, biography, literary criticism | Gustaf Hellström (1882–1953) |
| 8 | André Gide (1869–1951) | France
|
novel, short story, poetry, drama, memoir, essays | Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882–1952) |
| 9 | Herbert J. C. Grierson (1866–1960) | United Kingdom
|
essays, literary criticism | William James Entwistle (1895–1952) |
| 10 | Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) |  Germany Switzerland
|
novel, poetry, essays, short story |
|
| 11 | Ricarda Huch (1864–1947) | Germany
|
history, essays, novel, poetry | Fritz Strich (1882–1963) |
| 12 | François Mauriac (1885–1970) | France
|
novel, short story |
|
| 13 | Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) | United Kingdom
|
drama, novel, essays, poetry |
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| 14 | Arvid Mörne (1876–1946) |  Finland
|
poetry, drama, novel, essays |
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| 15 | Arnulf Øverland (1889–1968) |  Norway
|
poetry, essays |
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| 16 | Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) | Soviet Union
|
poetry, novel, translation | Maurice Bowra (1898–1971) |
| 17 | Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947) | Switzerland
|
novel, poetry, short story |
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| 18 | Angelos Sikelianos (1884–1951) |  Greece
|
poetry, drama | Anders Österling (1884–1981) |
| 19 | Ignazio Silone (1900–1978) |  Italy
|
novel, short story, essays, drama | Hjalmar Gullberg (1898–1961) |
| 20 | Marie Under (1883–1980) | Soviet Union (  Estonia)
|
poetry | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862–1953) |
| 21 | Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) | Norway
|
poetry, novel | Olav Midttun (1883–1972) |
| 22 | Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) | United Kingdom
|
novel, short story, essays, history, biography | Carl Adolf Bodelsen (1894–1978) |
References
[edit]- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1946". nobelprize.org.
- ^ "Hermann Hesse". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ^ "Nomination archive – Hermann Hesse". nobelprize.org.
- ^ "Nomination archive". nobelprize.org. April 2020.
