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    Erik Axel Karlfeldt (20 July 1864 – 8 April 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him...
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    posthumously awarded to the Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931) with the citation: "The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt." He was the third Swede to win...
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    Austrian-American physician and Nobel Prize laureate Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish Nobel Prize winning poet Erik Karlsson, Swedish hockey player Erich Kästner...
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    prize. This has occurred twice: the 1931 Literature Prize awarded to Erik Axel Karlfeldt, and the 1961 Peace Prize awarded to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld...
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    she was awarded in 2007. It has been awarded posthumously once, to Erik Axel Karlfeldt in 1931. On some occasions, the awarding institution, the Swedish...
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    Pontoppidan Spitteler Hamsun Yeats Shaw Beckett Reymont Deledda Undset Mann Karlfeldt Galsworthy Bunin Pirandello du Gard Sillanpää Jensen Hesse Russell Lagerkvist...
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  • Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Pär Lagerkvist,...
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    the Latin Cucurbita, and refers to a long-bodied gourd. The poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt, who wrote about the painted wall hangings of Dalarna, popularized...
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    Prize in Literature should be awarded to the Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt. But Karlfeldt promptly declined the prize, explaining that he could not...
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    Swedish Academy received 30 nominations for 24 authors among them Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Kostis Palamas, Johan Bojer, Édouard Estaunié, and Arno Holz. Six...
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  • other cases where a Nobel Prize has been presented posthumously: Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Literature 1931), Dag Hammarskjöld (Peace 1961) and Ralph Steinman...
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  • Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884) 1931 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) 1936 – Róbert Bárány...
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    Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Pär Lagerkvist,...
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    Söderblom 1931 None Carl Bosch; Friedrich Bergius Otto Heinrich Warburg Erik Axel Karlfeldt Jane Addams; Nicholas Murray Butler 1932 Werner Heisenberg Irving...
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  • Pär Lagerkvist, Literature, 1951 Arne Tiselius, Chemistry, 1948 Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Literature, 1931 (posthumously) Nathan Söderblom, Peace, 1930 Hans...
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    to two districts in Uppsala). Other Uppsala alumni are the poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931), who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1918 but...
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  • industrialist and originator of Michelin Guides (born 1854) April 8 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) April 9 – Nicholas...
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    1900-1903 Hans Hildebrand 1903-1913 (Chair pro tempore 1912-1913) Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1907-1931 Harald Hjärne Chair 1913-1921 Per Hallström 1913-1946 (Chair...
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  • Karlbo is a village in Avesta Municipality, Dalarna, Sweden. Erik Axel Karlfeldt was born here. "Karlbo Map | Sweden Google Satellite Maps". 60°07′N 16°14′E...
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  • representative of a new era in our literature" Erik Axel Karlfeldt, 1931 — "For the poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt". The acceptance speech elaborates: " The...
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    nominations in 1920 once again from Harry Fett and Academy member Erik Axel Karlfeldt. In total, the Nobel Committee earned 27 nominations for authors...
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    further works. In 1921 Yeats was nominated again by committee member Erik Axel Karlfeldt who noted that Yeats "had won much acknowledgement for his remarkable...
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    society. 9 of the nominees were nominated first-time, among them Erik Axel Karlfeldt (awarded posthumously in 1931), Per Hallström, Ivan Franko and Gunnar...
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  • Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went to Heaven Nobel Prize in literature – Erik Axel Karlfeldt Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Susan Glaspell, Alison's House Pulitzer...
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  • – Marie Tempest, English stage, film actress (d. 1942) July 20 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931) July 21 – Frances...
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    1928: Sigrid Undset 1929: Thomas Mann 1930: Sinclair Lewis 1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt (posthumously) 1932: John Galsworthy 1933: Ivan Bunin 1934: Luigi...
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  • Lovecraft's The Whisperer in Darkness. Death of Arnold Bennett, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Khalil Gibran 1932 in literature – Aldous Huxley's Brave New World;...
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    by French politician Marcellin Berthelot. In 1921, three nominations from Erik Staaff, Johan Vising and Emanuel Walberg was submitted for him to the Nobel...
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  • (1851–1948)  Ireland 1915, 1918 Per Hallström (1866–1960)  Sweden 1921 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931)  Sweden 1922, 1923 Nobel Committee George Bernard Shaw...
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    Kallifatides (born 1938) Mare Kandre (1962–2005) Marit Kapla (born 1970) Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931) Agneta Klingspor (1946–2022) Martin Koch (1882–1940)...
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