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 peopleA 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
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