Nobel Prize in Literature

Swedish Academy

that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny (2007, Doris Lessing)

"in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings" (1909, Selma Lagerlöf)

"in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature" (1916, Verner von Heidenstam)

Hans Carossa (1950)

J.C. Bloem (1950)

Henriette Roland Holst van der Schalk (1950)

Nobel Prize