Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klas Pont us Arnoldson (Swedish) Frederik Bajer (Danish...
Again the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded by the Swedish Academy. Again no American had arisen to such distinction. The recipient was Ladislas St. Reymont, Pole, aged 56, author of 23 volumes of short stories and novels, in particular author of The Peasants (4 vols., 1902-06), for which the prize this year was given. In form a novel, the work actually constitutes a review of Poland's history since her partition at the close of the 18th Century...
...Verner Heidenstam ....Swedish...
...Selma Lagerlöf Swedish...
...same mercenary reasons as did the other renegade Republicans and Democrats. In doing this he joined those who defeated the wise plan of Secretary Mellen to lower the country's taxes. He is said to represent the American farmer--his real supporters are dissatisfied German, Polish, and Swedish farmers of the Northwest. In no respect does he, represent the real American farmer in New England or the Middle West...