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unusual facts about Nobel Prize for literature



A Page of Madness

Yasunari Kawabata, who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, was credited on the film with the original story.

Allen Upward

Ezra Pound would a decade later satirically remark that this was due to his disappointment after hearing of George Bernard Shaw's Nobel Prize award which Shaw won in 1925.

Dark Avenues

Dark Avenues (or Dark Alleys, Russian: «Тёмные аллеи», Tyomnyye allei) is a collection of short stories by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin written in 1937–1944, mostly in Grasse, France, first 11 novellas of which were published in New York, United States, in 1943.

Declaration of Reasonable Doubt

John Galsworthy (1867–1933, English novelist and playwright, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature. Best known for The Forsyte Saga and its sequels): Described Oxfordian J. Thomas Looney's Shakespeare Identified as "the best detective story" he had ever read.

L. A. Ring

In 1894, Ring was used as a model for a character in the novel Night watch (Nattevagt) by the Danish author and later Nobel prize winner Henrik Pontoppidan, an old friend of his.

Pearl S. Buck Birthplace

Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer Prize (1932, for The Good Earth) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1938).

Story of Sinuhe

Naguib Mahfouz, the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer, published in 1941 a story entitled "Awdat Sinuhi" translated by Raymond Stock in 2003 as "The Return of Sinuhe" in the collection of Mahfouz's short stories entitled Voices from the Other World.

Struga

The main event of the cultural life in Struga is the world's largest poetry gathering, Struga Poetry Evenings, whose laureates have included several Nobel Prize for Literature winners such as Joseph Brodsky, Eugenio Montale, Pablo Neruda, Seamus Heaney, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca and many others since 1966.


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Anna Gustafsson Chen

She is notable for translating the work of Mo Yan (the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature winner) into Swedish.

Francisco Páez de la Cadena

He has translated into Spanish more than sixty books, among them works by V. S. Naipaul (Nobel Prize for Literature 2001), Anthony Burgess, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and the "landscape" poems by Cesare Pavese lately.

Martin Dugard

Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958), French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature

Travnik

The most important are Ivo Andrić (writer, Nobel Prize for literature in 1961), Miroslav Ćiro Blažević (soccer coach of Croatian national team, won third place 1998 in France), Josip Pejaković (actor), Seid Memić Vajta (pop-singer) and Davor Džalto (artist and art historian, the youngest PhD in Germany and in the South-East European region).

Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa, born in 1936, is a novelist, journalist, politician and essayist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2010.