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Nobel Prize in Literature のーべるぶんがくしょう

Edition 5 (1905)

Literature awardInternational literature awardLifetime achievement award

Winners

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Henryk Sienkiewicz へんりく・しぇんきぇゔぃち Winner

Set in ancient Rome, Quo Vadis contrasts the rise of Christianity with imperial corruption to examine faith and morality. Widely translated and read around the world, it became the work most closely associated with Sienkiewicz's Nobel Prize.

A historical novel in which faith and love are tested under Nero's rule.

historical novelreligion and moralityancient Romelove and ethics