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The Nobel Literature Prize weren't awarded for the years 1914 and 1918 and from 1940---1943 due to the impact of the war. However, after going through the reports from these years, apart from 1942, there were, apparently deliberations for some of the candidates with the hope that if the war...

Akwaeke Emezi's second novel published in 2020 (after her much acclaimed Freshwater), this novel, set in South-Eastern Nigeria, follow the eponymous character whose life's narrated through the eyes of those around him before his unfortunate tragedy's narrated by those around him. Raised by a...

The same feeling I had when I read it last year. I always prefer Sound and the Fury to Absalom.

The Nobel Prizes in 1907, 08, 09, 10, 11 and 12 were awarded to Kipling, Eucken, Lagerolf, Heysee, Maeterlinck and Hauptmann. The shortlist for 1907 was Kipling, Lagerolf and Swinburne. Kipling was selected for his "fertile ideas and imagination," in his then recent work Kim. Kipling was chosen...

The Nobel Prize for the period 1901--1912 was called the era of "lofty and sound idealsm," championed by the committee chairman Carl David Af Wirsen. The approach was a conservative idealism according to Hegel, holding church, state and family sacred and by its idealist aesthetics derived from...

The Nobel Prize for 1916, 1917 and 1919 was awarded to Vermeer Von Heidenstam, Gjellerup/Pontoppidan and Carl Spitteler. The shortlisted names for the Nobel was Heidenstam and Jakob Knudsen/Gjerllerup for 1916, Gjerllerup/Pontoppidan, Spitteler and Arne Garborg for 1917, Spitteler and Erik...

The criteria for the period 1913-1919, championed by comittee's chairman Harald Hjarne was called "Policy of Neutrality, " which was "endeavouring to mitigate abuses and excess resulting from 'nationalistic tendencies in modern literature and struggle for power in general'"" assserting...

The Nobel Prizes for 1927, 28 and 29 were awarded to Henri Bergson, Sigrid Undset and Thomas Mann. The shortlisted writers for these years were Bergson, Undset and Palamas (27), Gorky, Johannes V Jensen and Undset (28), Stefan George, Thomas Mann and Arno Holz (1929). Palamas's evaluation...

The Nobel Prizes for 1924, 25, 26 was awarded to Wadlyslaw Reymont, Bernard Shaw and Grazia Deledda. The shortlist for 1924 was Thomas Mann, Thomas Hardy, Reymont and his countryman Stefan Zeromski. The 1925 Nobel wasn't awarded that year, so it was awarded in 1926. The combined shortlist for...

Great style was a criteria used by the Nobel committee to judge candidates for the Nobel Prizes in the 1920s. It had connections with Wirsen's epoch (1901--1912), and his treatment of classicism, though it eliminated the narrow interpretation of the ideal direction expressed by Wirsen. It upheld...

The Nobel Prizes between 1930-1933 were awarded to Sinclair Lewis, Erik Karlfeldt (surprising), John Galsworthy, and Ivan Bunin. United States and Russia produced their first Laureates after unsuccessful attempts from Henry James (USA) Tolstoy, Konstantin Balmont and Gorky (Russia). The...

The Nobel Literature Prize for 1934 and 1936 was awarded to Pirandello and Eugene O'Neill. The 1935 Prize wasn't awarded the committee felt there wasn't a suitable candidate. The 1935 Nobel Prize shortlist consisted of Czech writer Karel Capek, dismissed for political reasons (as Capek reasons...

The Nobel Prizes for 1937, 1938 and 1939 were awarded to Roger Martin Du Gard, Pearl Buck and Frans Emil Silanpaa. The writers shortlisted for the Nobel in 1937 were Du Gard, Paul Claudel and Stijn Streuvels, the 1938 prize shortlist consisted of Johannes Jensen, Stijn Streuvels and Pearl Buck...

The 1947, 1948 and 1949&1950 Nobel Prizes went to Andre Gide, TS Eliot, Faulkner and Betrand Russell. The 1947 Nobel Prize shortlist was Gide, Hemingway, George Duhamel and T S, Eliot, the 1948 Nobel shortlist was Eliot, Pasternak, Greek Poet Angelos Sikelianos and Winston Churchill, while the...

Nobel Prizes between 1944---1946 signalled a new interpretation to the Nobel's will: rewarding writers who are considered pioneers. It was inspired by then secretary Anders Osterling, who advocated for Laureates that paved the way for new developments, providing world literature with new...

For the Nobel Prizes in 1951, 1952 and 1953, 25 writers, 40 writers and 24 writers we're nominated for the Prizez that went to Par Lagerkvist, Francois Mauriac and Winston Churchill. Three writers we're shortlisted for the Prize in 1951 and 1953, while two writers were shortlisted in 1952. For...

The Nobel Prizes has been awarded to some of the world's finest writers. Some of these Laureates have also been widely studied in more than twenty countries. Going through the literature syllabus in almost ten countries in Africa (both High School and College), here are some Laureates that are...

27 writers were nominated for this year's Nobel Literature Prize, which went to Ernest Hemingway. Among the writers shortlisted for the Nobel that year was Hemingway, Camus, Swiss writers Hans Carossa and Carl Jung and Laxness. Hemingway's publication of Old Man and the Sea confirmed...

46 writers we're nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature this which was awarded to Hall Laxness. Writers that was shortlisted for the Nobel this year were Somerset Maugham, Gunnar Gunnarson, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Eugene Baie and Laxness. Committee wrote that Somerset Maugham's works were...

44 writers was nominated for this year's Nobel Literature Prize, which was awarded to Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez. Among the writers shortlisted, apart from Jimenez, was Camus, Blixen, Spanish literary critic and philologist Ramon Menedez Pidal and Nikos Kazantzakis. The Committee was...