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...about $35,000 each, and are made annually, provided, 1) the candidates are deserving, and 2) the interest on the invested funds is adequate. The Literature winners include: Sully-Prudhomme (1901, first award made), Kipling (1907), Maeterlink, (1911), Hauptmann (1912), Tagore (1913), Rolland (1915), Anatole France (1921). Yeats (1923) Reymont (1924) and 6 Scandinavians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

Died. Ladislaw Stanislaw Reymont, 57, famed Polish novelist (The Peasants), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924, at Warsaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sport | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...Author. St. Reymont was born in 1868 in what was then Russian Poland. His family was large, poor, patriotic. His mother and her five brothers took part in the Polish insurrection of 1863 against Russia. He, too, is a patriot. He has been telegraph operator, actor, railway clerk, farmer, even spent months in a Paulist monastery. His complete works comprise 28 volumes of novels and short stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peasants* | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

...Significance. This first part of St. Reymont's epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peasants* | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

...AUTUMN. BEING THE FIRST PART OF THE PEASANTS ? Ladislas St. Reymont ? Knopf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peasants* | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

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