Ben Jackson
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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 shortlist for 1950 and 1949, which was awarded the following year in 1950, consisted of Pasternak, Alberto Moravia, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Broch, Faulkner, Lagerkvist and Russell.
Gide was finally awarded the Nobel after been dismissed the previous year due to his homosexual persona. Critics interpreted Gide's award as a reward for Valery's sudden demise. In his acceptance speech, Gide paid a tribute to Valery. T S Eliot was hailed for his pioneering achievement in Modern Poetry but was passed over to the next year. Gide was seen as a superior writer than Georges Duhamel, his counterpart. Hemingway's style was seen as too entertaining and lightweight, especially demonstrated in works like The Sun Also Rises, according to American Literature expert and committee head Per Hallstrom.
The committee in 1948 Nobel had decided to split the Nobel between Greek Poet Angelos Sikelianos and T S Eliot, but Anders Osterling had dismissed the idea, referring it as en passant (as where both are considered, it would certainly be considered a disparagement). Boris Pasternak was dismissed for the Prize in 1948---1950 for lack of significance in his poetry. Winston Churchill was praised for his biography Marlborough by Committee member Nils Ahnlund, referring to the praise heaped on the biography by George Trevelyan, but felt that Churchill's works were not entirely qualified for Literature Prize. Ahnlund also praised his oratory, which "is comprehensible for each and everyone, has a mark of genuine art." Churchill's Nobel chances was also dismissed "on the grounds that the prize would acquire a political import rather than a literary one," and that "a gesture of this Some could easily, in the light of Sweden's justly or unjustly criticised stance during World War ll be misconstrued." Some of this oratory speeches was later published in book form years after Churchill's Nobel Truimph in 1953.
The 1949 prize wasn't awarded, so it was pushed to 1950.
Hemingway's then recent novel Across the Rivers and into the Trees was seen as not impressive. The Committee also felt that he had enjoyed success and wouldn't like the prize money. Hermann Broch was dismissed for mixing poetry, philosophy to excess which lacked a wide following. Par Lagerkvist's decision was kept on hold till the translation of Barrabas, his acclaimed masterpiece into other European languages. Lagerkvist was rewarded the following year. Faulkner was pushed by Osterling after been impressed by Sanctuary, Sound and the Fury and As I lay Dying, novels "that paved for a fresh, visionary style into American fiction." Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy was seen as the key work that motivated the Committee to award the Nobel to Russell. Alberto Moravia was dismissed for "lacking the unusual extent, hitherto at least, the idealistic tendencies continually looked in this context."
The Committee voted, therefore, voted for Faulkner, on the strength of evaluation from Anders Osterling, the Nobel Literature for 1949 for his innovations in American fiction, while Betrand Russell was awarded the Nobel for 1950.
Gide was finally awarded the Nobel after been dismissed the previous year due to his homosexual persona. Critics interpreted Gide's award as a reward for Valery's sudden demise. In his acceptance speech, Gide paid a tribute to Valery. T S Eliot was hailed for his pioneering achievement in Modern Poetry but was passed over to the next year. Gide was seen as a superior writer than Georges Duhamel, his counterpart. Hemingway's style was seen as too entertaining and lightweight, especially demonstrated in works like The Sun Also Rises, according to American Literature expert and committee head Per Hallstrom.
The committee in 1948 Nobel had decided to split the Nobel between Greek Poet Angelos Sikelianos and T S Eliot, but Anders Osterling had dismissed the idea, referring it as en passant (as where both are considered, it would certainly be considered a disparagement). Boris Pasternak was dismissed for the Prize in 1948---1950 for lack of significance in his poetry. Winston Churchill was praised for his biography Marlborough by Committee member Nils Ahnlund, referring to the praise heaped on the biography by George Trevelyan, but felt that Churchill's works were not entirely qualified for Literature Prize. Ahnlund also praised his oratory, which "is comprehensible for each and everyone, has a mark of genuine art." Churchill's Nobel chances was also dismissed "on the grounds that the prize would acquire a political import rather than a literary one," and that "a gesture of this Some could easily, in the light of Sweden's justly or unjustly criticised stance during World War ll be misconstrued." Some of this oratory speeches was later published in book form years after Churchill's Nobel Truimph in 1953.
The 1949 prize wasn't awarded, so it was pushed to 1950.
Hemingway's then recent novel Across the Rivers and into the Trees was seen as not impressive. The Committee also felt that he had enjoyed success and wouldn't like the prize money. Hermann Broch was dismissed for mixing poetry, philosophy to excess which lacked a wide following. Par Lagerkvist's decision was kept on hold till the translation of Barrabas, his acclaimed masterpiece into other European languages. Lagerkvist was rewarded the following year. Faulkner was pushed by Osterling after been impressed by Sanctuary, Sound and the Fury and As I lay Dying, novels "that paved for a fresh, visionary style into American fiction." Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy was seen as the key work that motivated the Committee to award the Nobel to Russell. Alberto Moravia was dismissed for "lacking the unusual extent, hitherto at least, the idealistic tendencies continually looked in this context."
The Committee voted, therefore, voted for Faulkner, on the strength of evaluation from Anders Osterling, the Nobel Literature for 1949 for his innovations in American fiction, while Betrand Russell was awarded the Nobel for 1950.
