1945 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Nobel prize medal.svg 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature
Gabriela Mistral
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"for her lyric poetry, which inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world"
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  • 15 November 1945 (announcement)
  • 10 December 1945
    (ceremony)
Location Stockholm, Sweden
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Presented by Swedish Academy
First awarded 1901
Official website Official website

The 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chilean poet Gabriel Mistral (1889–1957) "for her lyric poetry, which inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world."[1][2] She is the fifth female and first Latin American recipient of the literature prize.[3][4]

Laureate

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Lucila Godoy Alcayaga borrowed the pseudonym, Gabriela Mistral, from her favorite poets, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Frédéric Mistral. Her poetry is distinguished by intense emotion and straightforward language, having been influenced also by the modernist movement. Affection, deceit, sorrow, nature, travel, and love for children are some of their major themes. Mistral's first prominent poetry collection was Desolación ("Despair"), published in 1922. Ternura ("Tenderness"), published in 1924, contains nursery rhymes and lullabies for children whereas Tala ("Harvesting", 1938) makes use of strange imagery and free verse. She was well-known for writing op-eds for major Chilean newspapers such as El Coquimbo: Diario Radical and La Voz de Elqui. In her country, she became the first female to be awarded the National Prize for Literature.[4][5]

Deliberations

Nominations

Mistral received eight nominations beginning in 1940. For 1945, she was nominated by the newly inducted Swedish Academy member Elin Wägner (1882–1949) by which she was eventually awarded.[6] In total, the Nobel Committee received 23 nominations for 18 individuals. Four of the nominees were nominated first-time: Thomas Stearns Eliot (awarded in 1948), Yiorgos Theotokas, Edward Morgan Forster, and Marie Under. There were four female nominees namely Elisaveta Bagryana, Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício, Gabriela Mistral and Marie Under.[7]

The French poet Paul Valéry was nominated for the tenth, eleventh and twelfth time by three members of the Swedish Academy. It is believed that the Academy intended to award Valéry the prize in 1945, but he died in July.[8]

The authors Maurice Baring, Ursula Bethell, Robert Brasillach, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ernst Cassirer, Mário de Andrade, Margaret Deland, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Robert Desnos, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Maurice Donnay, Alfred Douglas, E. R. Eddison, Ioan Constantin Filitti, Zinaida Gippius, Ellen Glasgow, Josef Hora, Régis Messac, Arthur Morrison, Otto Neurath, Kitaro Nishida, Charles Gilman Norris, Else Lasker-Schüler, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Alexander Roda Roda, Felix Salten, Lurana W. Sheldon, Antal Szerb, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Charles Williams died in 1945 without having been nominated for the prize. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga and Austrian-Bohemian author Franz Werfel died months before the announcement.

Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize
No. Nominee Country Genre(s) Nominator(s)
1 Elisaveta Bagryana (1893–1991)  Bulgaria poetry, translation Stefan Mladenov (1880–1963)[lower-alpha 1]
2 Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948)  Soviet Union
(23x15px Ukraine)
philosophy, theology Alf Nyman (1884–1968)
3 Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)  United Kingdom poetry, essays, biography Heinrich Wolfgang Donner (1904-1980)
4 Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício
(1884–1947)
 Portugal poetry, essays António Baião (1878–1961)
5 Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) 23x15px 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 Anders Österling (1884–1981)
7 Johan Falkberget (1879–1967)  Norway novel, short story, essays Eugenia Kielland (1878–1969)
8 Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970)  United Kingdom novel, short story, drama, essays, biography, literary criticism Greta Hedin (1889–1949)
9 Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)  Netherlands history
10 Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957)  Chile poetry Elin Wägner (1882–1949)
11 Arvid Mörne (1876–1946)  Finland poetry, drama, novel, essays Gustav Suits (1883–1956)
12 Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947)   Switzerland novel, poetry, short story Marcel Raymond (1897–1981)[lower-alpha 2]
13 Jules Romains (1885–1972) 23x15px France poetry, drama, screenplay Holger Sten (1907–1971)
14 John Steinbeck (1902–1968)  United States novel, short story, screenplay Gustaf Munthe (1896–1962)
15 Yiorgos Theotokas (1906–1966)  Greece novel, short story, drama, essays Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970)
16 Marie Under (1883–1980)  Soviet Union
( Estonia)
poetry Ants Oras (1900–1982)
17 Paul Valéry (1871–1945) 23x15px France poetry, philosophy, essays, drama
18 Franz Werfel (1890–1945)  Czechoslovakia novel, short story, drama, poetry

Notes

  1. Nomination was originally sent in 1943, but was moved to the nomination list for 1945.
  2. Ramuz was nominated by M. Raymond and a number of professors of French, German and Italian literature at Swiss universities.

References

  1. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 nobelprize.org
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  5. Gabriela Mistral – Facts nobelprize.org
  6. Nomination archive – Gabriela (Lucile) Mistral (Godoy y Alcayaga) nobelprize.org
  7. Nomination archive – 1945 nobelprize.org
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