Nordic Council Literature Prize ほくおうひょうぎかいぶんがくしょう
Edition 4 (1965)
Literature prizeInternational Literature PrizeNordic Literature
Winners
1 peopleA critical essay on Dante and The Divine Comedy that rereads the poem for modern readers. Moving from hell to paradise, it reconsiders the structure and meaning of the work in a contemporary frame.
It reads Dante not as a distant classic, but as a work that still feels alive today.
219 pages
DanteThe Divine Comedyliterary criticismnonfictionmodern interpretationItalian literature