2023-10-07 08:00:00
Written by Bilal Ramadan Saturday, October 07, 2023 11:00 AM
Yesterday, the Swedish Academy announced that the Nobel Prize was awarded to the Norwegian writer Jón Fosse, also known as… John FossTo join the archive of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in this context, we learn together a group of facts and figures from the archive of the prize.
Number of Nobel Prize laureates in Literature
It was won by 120 winners from 1901 until 2023
The award has been awarded 116 times
The award was withheld seven times in the following years:
1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943.
The prize was divided between two people four times:
1904 – Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1917 – Karl Gellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1966 – Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1974 – Eivind Johnson, Harry Martinson
17 women writers won the award
Swedish Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909.
Selma Lagerlöf was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature five years before she was elected to the Swedish Academy
It is noteworthy that Alfred Nobel wrote in his will, “The interest shall be divided into five equal parts, divided as follows: – – – One part for the person who has produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction…”
Alfred Nobel had wide cultural interests. In his early youth, he developed literary interests that continued throughout his life, and his library consisted of a rich and wide collection of literature in different languages. During the last years of his life, he experimented with literary writing, and began writing novels. This is why literature was the field of the fourth prize that Nobel mentioned in his will.
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