I have heard of many books winning the nobel prize, but what exactly is it? And where can I read more about it?
2006-09-14 04:00:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
From http://nobelprize.org/
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from different corners of the globe for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. It all started when Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite and a mulitmillionaire by his 40's).wrote his last will and testament in 1895, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the Nobel Prize.
The Swedish Academy is reponsible for the choice of the Nobel Laureates in Literature. The Academy is composed of 18 members whose tenure is for life. Known as De Aderton (The Eighteen), current members of the Academy are distinguished Swedish writers, linguists, literary scholars, historians and a prominent jurist. Its working body is the Nobel Committee, elected from among its members for a three-year term. The first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901 wa 150,000 kroner.
In 2006 the Nobel Prize for Literature will be 10,000,000.00 kroner.
Check out a list of the winners and see how many of these authors you have read!
2005 - Harold Pinter
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
2003 - J.M. Coetzee
2002 - Imre Kertész
2001 - V.S. Naipaul
2000 - Gao Xingjian
1999 - Günter Grass
1998 - José Saramago
1997 - Dario Fo
1996 - Wislawa Szymborska
1995 - Seamus Heaney
1994 - Kenzaburo Oe
1993 - Toni Morrison
1992 - Derek Walcott
1991 - Nadine Gordimer
1990 - Octavio Paz
1989 - Camilo José Cela
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1986 - Wole Soyinka
1985 - Claude Simon
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert
1983 - William Golding
1982 - Gabriel García Márquez
1981 - Elias Canetti
1980 - Czeslaw Milosz
1979 - Odysseus Elytis
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977 - Vicente Aleixandre
1976 - Saul Bellow
1975 - Eugenio Montale
1974 - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1973 - Patrick White
1972 - Heinrich Böll
1971 - Pablo Neruda
1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1969 - Samuel Beckett
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 - Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
1963 - Giorgos Seferis
1962 - John Steinbeck
1961 - Ivo Andric
1960 - Saint-John Perse
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1957 - Albert Camus
1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955 - Halldór Laxness
1954 - Ernest Hemingway
1953 - Winston Churchill
1952 - François Mauriac
1951 - Pär Lagerkvist
1950 - Bertrand Russell
1949 - William Faulkner
1948 - T.S. Eliot
1947 - André Gide
1946 - Hermann Hesse
1945 - Gabriela Mistral
1944 - Johannes V. Jensen
1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938 - Pearl Buck
1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
1936 - Eugene O'Neill
1935 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1934 - Luigi Pirandello
1933 - Ivan Bunin
1932 - John Galsworthy
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930 - Sinclair Lewis
1929 - Thomas Mann
1928 - Sigrid Undset
1927 - Henri Bergson
1926 - Grazia Deledda
1925 - George Bernard Shaw
1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont
1923 - William Butler Yeats
1922 - Jacinto Benavente
1921 - Anatole France
1920 - Knut Hamsun
1919 - Carl Spitteler
1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917 - Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 - Verner von Heidenstam
1915 - Romain Rolland
1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 - Paul Heyse
1909 - Selma Lagerlöf
1908 - Rudolf Eucken
1907 - Rudyard Kipling
1906 - Giosuè Carducci
1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1902 - Theodor Mommsen
1901 - Sully Prudhomme
2006-09-14 04:07:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nobel Prize in Literature?! Check the link.
2006-09-14 11:07:48 · answer #2 · answered by Dawn Treader 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Nobel prize for literature.
2006-09-14 11:02:56 · answer #3 · answered by bruinfan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try wikipedia. Nobel prize for Lit is a prize to recognise the significant contributions made by certain people in the lit field i think.
2006-09-14 11:07:37 · answer #4 · answered by Forest_aude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alfred Noble was a great scientist who invented Dynamite which is explosive it is used in the war/battles so he earned much because of this invention he was worried due to this destructive invention and ofcourse he thought of doing some remedy so he gave the money to govt and it was used to give as a noble prize
do you know the noble prize is given for all the field but not for maths if u can find it
read about Noble and his invention to know about him
2006-09-14 11:20:41 · answer #5 · answered by jaya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
type nobel prize into your search bar
2006-09-14 11:02:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
nobel invented TNT and when he died he granted the money
2006-09-14 11:03:30 · answer #7 · answered by eeyore 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋