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Nobel Prize/Literature (Nobel Prize) | |
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Start | 1901 |
Not to be confused with the Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Prize in Literature is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction".[1]
Related Quotation
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Tariq Ali | “I find it interesting who does and does not get considered for the Nobel - the committee always has one eye on the need of the establishment. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, for example, no Russian has gotten the Nobel Prize for Literature” | Tariq Ali | 2005 |
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