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...Sweden's Bjornsterne Bjornson" ever received the Nobel Prize for Literature as stated in footnote on p. 40, TIME, Nov. 19. Alfred Nobel's Sweden has to be satisfied with Literature Prize Winners Selma Lagerloöf (1909), Verner von Heidenstam (1916) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt...
...citizen is regarded as a triumph for that citizen's country. Whether or not the Committee deals out its favors impartially, it obviously tries to rotate them. Last year the Nobel Prize in Literature went to England (the late John Galsworthy), the year before to Sweden (Erik Axel Karlfeldt), year before that to the U. S. (Sinclair Lewis). This year for the first time it went to a man without a country...
...Erik Axel Karlfeldt--Swedish writer, winner of Nobel prize in literature...
Awarded. To the late Dr. Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy and member of its Nobel Prize Committee on Literature, who died at 66 last April; the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1931. He refused the award...
Comment. "Sinclair Lewis," said Stockholm's Nya Dagtigt Allehanda "is a noisy savage." "Lewis," declared Tidningen, "is sincere." "Lewis is no charlatan," said Poet Eric Axel Karlfeldt, secretary of the Swedish Academy...
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