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Nobel Prize in Literature のーべるぶんがくしょう

Edition 67 (1974, held 2 times in year)

Literature awardInternational literature awardLifetime achievement award

Winners

2 people
Eyvind Johnson えいゔぃんど じょはんそん Winner

A representative historical novel by Eyvind Johnson that follows people driven toward execution under royal command and explores the tension between power and freedom.

A historical novel that tests how individual freedom survives under power.

historical fictionpowerfreedomSwedish literature
Harry Martinson はりー まーてぃんそん Winner

Aniara is a landmark Swedish epic poem in which the spacecraft Aniara veers off course and humanity, cut off from Earth, is forced to rethink the meaning of existence.

A drifting spacecraft becomes the stage for a cosmic meditation on civilization and isolation.

157 pages
epic poemspaceexistentialismecologySwedish literature