[bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from 1901 was Special COllections

  • From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:56:31 -0500

This is wonderful, Cindy!  Thank you so much for looking up this stuff!  I, 
too, loved The Good Earth, and her other books about China.  You could just 
tell she loved China, and understood the people.

The book I remember best by Sinclair Lewis is Arrowsmith.  We do have a lot of 
the authors represented, though not in a special collection.

Sue S.


From: Cindy 
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 5:52 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from 1901 was 
Special COllections

At first I thought you are right; then I began to think that maybe it was 
awarded for a body of work, so I went to a Nobel.org site and found this:  so  
I guess it's not one particular book.  For Sinclair Lewis I found this: 

Sinclair Lewis
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his 
vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and 
humour, new types of characters".
for Pearl Buck I found this: 


Facts on the Nobel Prize in Literature
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving 
the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As 
described in Nobel's will one part was dedicated to “the person who shall have 
produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal 
direction”. Learn more about the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1901 to 2011.

That dosn't make it very clear, though; does "most outstanding work mean one 
book or body of work
I checked the Nobel site for Sinclair Lewis and found this:  
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his 
vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and 
humour, new types of characters".
For Pearl Buck I found this: 


The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 was awarded to Pearl Buck "for her rich and 
truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical 
masterpieces". , . for Pearl Buck I found this: 

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 was awarded to Pearl Buck "for her rich and 
truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical 
masterpieces". and for Rudyard Kipling, this:



The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 was awarded to Rudyard Kipling "in 
consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility 
of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations 
of this world-famous author".I also learned that Kipling was the youngest 
author to receive the prize ( That year The Jungle Book was mentioned whenhe 
won. Doris Lessing was the oldest winner, age 88 (I think it was 2007, but now 
I don't remembered, even though I just read it.

I don't hink we'd necessarily have to have all the books a prizewinner wrote, 
maybe just one or a few that are representative of the author. It's odd to hink 
that The Jungle Book was mentioned when Kipling won when he wrote so many 
others--or maybe I'm thinking og pems, like Kim (was that a book). I know Pearl 
Book wrot a lot of books about China because I've read most of them, especially 
her children's book, The Chinese Children Next Door). The award mentioned her 
biographies. I didn't know she wrote biographies. Her most famous book is 
probably The Great Earth, but there were sequels, too which I read--all very 
good.
Cindy


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  From: Sue Stevens <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:55 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from 1901 was 
Special COllections


  Wow, Cindy!  Thanks for all this info!!  

  Sue S.


  From: Cindy 
  Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:28 PM
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from 1901 was 
Special COllections

  For those who want more information about the Nobel Prize for Literature, 
here's some  general info,including a list of all winners since 1901. If anyone 
wants to make a project of scanning any of the books we don't have I'd be happy 
to proof them, although I don't know how we could do non-English books unless 
they have been translated. I knosw there'a at least one Sinclair Lewis book 
because I proofed it, and Kipling's poetry is in,because Amy scanned that and I 
proofed it. I don't know about his novels; and I'm sure, though I didn't check 
that The Good Earth must be in. 
  Here's the info I copied from online:  

  All Nobel Prizes in Literature

  The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 104 times to 108 Nobel 
Laureates between 1901 and 2011. All Nobel Prizes in Literature

  The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 104 times to 108 Nobel 
Laureates between 1901 and 2011. 


  Here's the list: 


  2011
  Tomas Tranströmer
  2010
  Mario Vargas Llosa
  2009
  Herta Müller
  2008
  Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
  2007
  Doris Lessing
  2006
  Orhan Pamuk
  2005
  Harold Pinter
  2004
  Elfriede Jelinek
  2003
  John M. Coetzee
  2002
  Imre Kertész
  2001
  Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
  2000
  Gao Xingjian
  1999
  Günter Grass
  1998
  José Saramago
  1997
  Dario Fo
  1996
  Wislawa Szymborska
  1995
  Seamus Heaney
  1994
  Kenzaburo Oe
  1993
  Toni Morrison
  1992
  Derek Walcott
  1991
  Nadine Gordimer
  1990
  Octavio Paz
  1989
  Camilo José Cela
  1988
  Naguib Mahfouz
  1987
  Joseph Brodsky
  1986
  Wole Soyinka
  1985
  Claude Simon
  1984
  Jaroslav Seifert
  1983
  William Golding
  1982
  Gabriel García Márquez
  1981
  Elias Canetti
  1980
  Czeslaw Milosz
  1979
  Odysseus Elytis
  1978
  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  1977
  Vicente Aleixandre
  1976
  Saul Bellow
  1975
  Eugenio Montale
  1974
  Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
  1973
  Patrick White
  1972
  Heinrich Böll
  1971
  Pablo Neruda
  1970
  Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  1969
  Samuel Beckett
  1968
  Yasunari Kawabata
  1967
  Miguel Angel Asturias
  1966
  Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
  1965
  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
  1964
  Jean-Paul Sartre
  1963
  Giorgos Seferis
  1962
  John Steinbeck
  1961
  Ivo Andric
  1960
  Saint-John Perse
  1959
  Salvatore Quasimodo
  1958
  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
  1957
  Albert Camus
  1956
  Juan Ramón Jiménez
  1955
  Halldór Kiljan Laxness
  1954
  Ernest Miller Hemingway
  1953
  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
  1952
  François Mauriac
  1951
  Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
  1950
  Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
  1949
  William Faulkner
  1948
  Thomas Stearns Eliot
  1947
  André Paul Guillaume Gide
  1946
  Hermann Hesse
  1945
  Gabriela Mistral
  1944
  Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
  1943
  No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated 
to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
  1942
  No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated 
to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
  1941
  No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated 
to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
  1940
  No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated 
to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
  1939
  Frans Eemil Sillanpää
  1938
  Pearl Buck
  1937
  Roger Martin du Gard
  1936
  Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
  1935
  No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated 
to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
  1934
  Luigi Pirandello
  1933
  Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
  1932
  John Galsworthy
  1931
  Erik Axel Karlfeldt
  1930
  Sinclair Lewis
  1929
  Thomas Mann
  1928
  Sigrid Undset
  1927
  Henri Bergson
  1926
  Grazia Deledda
  1925
  George Bernard Shaw
  1924
  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
  1923
  William Butler Yeats
  1922
  Jacinto Benavente
  1921
  Anatole France
  1920
  Knut Pedersen Hamsun
  1919
  Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
  1918
  No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the 
Special Fund of this prize section.
  1917
  Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
  1916
  Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
  1915
  Romain Rolland
  1914
  No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the 
Special Fund of this prize section.
  1913
  Rabindranath Tagore
  1912
  Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
  1911
  Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
  1910
  Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
  1909
  Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
  1908
  Rudolf Christoph Eucken
  1907
  Rudyard Kipling
  1906
  Giosuè Carducci
  1905
  Henryk Sienkiewicz
  1904
  Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
  1903
  Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
  1902
  Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
  1901
  Sully Prudhomme


  And here's the list of all winners since 1901


  Cindy


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    From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:57 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Collections


    Hi Sue,

    Is Pulitzer Prize the same thing but by a different name?

    If so, you can find the list of books here:

    
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/collection/31/Pulitzer%20Prize%20Award%20Winners

    Hope that was what you're looking for!

    Mayrie




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    From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sue Stevens
    Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:35 PM
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Special Collections


        Hi All,

    In checking the special collections I do not see the Nobel Literature 
prizewinners listed.  Am I just missing them, or do we not have them?

    Sue S.




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