Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven University professors in the field of literature were in the dark last night about the achievements of Halder Laxness, Icelandic author who has won the 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature. Only Gunnar K. Baklund, lecturer on Swedish, could state that Laxness's success lies in his adoption of the form and simple prose of the ancient Icelandic saga...
Meanwhile, Ernest Hemingway, reached by telephone at his home in Cuba, called Laxness "one of the most outstanding and least recognized" literary figures of his day. Last year's Nobel laureate in literature said that he had read Laxness" works, three of which had been translated from the Icelandic, and that the author "certainly deserved" the prize this year...
Hemingway told of how the Swedish consul in Cuba called him at his home in San Francisco do Paula yesterday as soon as news of the Nobel judges' decision had arrived. He then immediately sent Laxness a telegram saying "Truest congratulations and best wishes to an excellent writer...
...Many of the novels (A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls) and short stories (The Killers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro) of Nobel Prizewinner Ernest Hemingway have long since been translated to the screen, but 20th Century-Fox announced that Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), will finally get a movie treatment with Howard Hawks directing...
Current pleas for a return to the humanities are symptoms of ignorance and an "anti-rational attitude which has been the curse of our century," I. I. Rabi, Nobel Prize winner and Morris Loeb Lecturer, declared last night in Sanders Theatre...