1927 Nobel Prize in Literature

Award 20px 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature Henri Bergson Swedish Academy 1901 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1927/summary/ Henri Bergson 02.jpg "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented." 10 November 1927notes The Swedish Academy decided on 10th November 1927 that the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature should be awarded to Grazia Deledda and that the current year's Nobel Prize in Literature should be reserved for the following year.http://libris.kb.se/bib/8345517 Nobelpriset i litteratur. Nomineringar och utlåtanden 1901–1950 Bo Svensén 2001 Svenska Akademien 9789113010076 1 November 2025 (postponement) 13 November 1928 (announcement) 10 December 1928 (ceremony) Stockholm, Sweden 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature 1928 The 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941) "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented."The Nobel Prize in Literature 1927 nobelprize.org He was the second philosopher to gain the Nobel Prize after Rudolf Christoph Eucken won in 1908. Laureate Henri Bergson Bergson was educated at the Lycée Condorcet and at the École Normale Supérieure, where he studied philosophy.https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bergson/ Henri Bergson Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 18 May 2004 He developed his philosophy through a series of publications that were well known for their original perspectives on life as well as their effective application of metaphor, imagery, and analogy. In Essai sur les Données Immédiates de la Conscience ("Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness", 1889), Bergson proposed the idea that consciousness exists on two levels, the first of which can only be attained by intense introspection, and the second of which is an exterior projection of the first. The notion of time that Bergson had previously proposed in his prior writings was expanded upon and used to investigate living things in L'Évolution Créatrice ("Creative Evolution", 1907). His other principal works include Matière et Mémoire ("Matter and Memory", 1896), Le Rire. Essai sur la Signification du Comique ("Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic", 1900) and Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion ("The Two Sources of Morality and Religion", 1932).https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henri-Bergson Henri Bergson French philosopher Encyclopedia BritannicaHenri Bergson – Facts nobelprize.org Deliberations Nominations Bergson was not nominated in 1927 but in 1928Nomination archive – Literature 1927 nobelprize.org was awarded for this year. He received a total of ten nominations beginning in 1912 made Scottish author Andrew Lang. In 1928, he received three separate recommendations from members of the French Academy, members of the Academy of Political and Moral Sciences and professors of history of philosophy.Nomination archive – Henri Bergson nobelprize.org In total, the Nobel Committee received 29 nominations in 1927 for authors such as Kostis Palamas, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Thomas Hardy, Guglielmo Ferrero, Rudolf Maria Holzapfel, Olav Duun, Ada Negri and Johannes V. Jensen (awarded in 1944). There were six authors newly nominated namely Cesare Pascarella, Eduard Meyer, Samuel Parsons Scott, Edith Wharton, Édouard Estaunié and Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer. Of the 21 nominees, four were women: Ada Negri, Edith Wharton, Concha Espina de la Serna and Grazia Deledda (awarded for 1926). The authors Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Bernhard Alexander, Mikhail Artsybashev, Hugo Ball, Kazimir Barantsevich, Margret Holmes Bates, Martin Stanislaus Brennan, Clara Louise Burnham, John Bagnell Bury, Mabel Collins, Roi Cooper Megrue, James Oliver Curwood, Minnie S. Davis, Robert de Flers, Federico De Roberto, Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Osório Duque-Estrada, Georges Eekhoud, Adolfo León Gómez, Ricardo Güiraldes, Lesbia Harford, Hubert Harrison, Fukuda Hideko, Jerome K. Jerome, Kang Youwei, Gaston Leroux, Agnes Maule Machar, Harriet Earhart Monroe, Süleyman Nazif, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Fyodor Sologub, Borisav Stanković, Stephan G. Stephansson, Mary Webb, Philip Wicksteed died in 1927 without having been nominated for the prize. Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize No. Nominee Country Genre(s) Nominator(s)1Olaf Bull (1883–1933) Norwaypoetry Jens Thiis (1870–1942)2Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) Kingdom of Italy Italynovel, short story, essaysHenrik Schück (1855–1947)3Olav Duun (1876–1939) Norwaynovel, short story Halvdan Koht (1873–1965)4Concha Espina de la Serna (1869–1955) Restoration (Spain) Spainnovel, short storySalomon Leopold Rosenberg (1869–1934)5Paul Ernst (1866–1933) Weimar Republic Germanynovel, short story, drama, essaysGerman professorsnotes A number of German professors, some of whom, based on the subjects they represented, were eligible to nominate P. Ernst.6Édouard Estaunié (1862–1942) French Third Republic Francenovel, literary criticism Erik Staaff (1867–1936)7Guglielmo Ferrero (1871–1942)Kingdom of Italy Italyhistory, essays, novelGeorg Wittrock (1876–1957) Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941)8Vilhelm Grønbech (1873–1948) Denmarkhistory, essays, poetryJohannes Pedersen (1883–1977)9Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) United Kingdomnovel, short story, poetry, dramaAage Brusendorff (1887–1932) Robert Eugen Zachrisson (1880–1937)10Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954)Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946) Hungarynovel, drama, essaysHungarian Academy of Sciences11Rudolf Maria Holzapfel (1874–1930) Austriaphilosophy, essays20px Romain Rolland (1866–1944) Several professorsnotes A number of North American, Swiss and German professors and authors, some of whom were eligible to make a nomination, joined in the nomination for Holzapfel.12Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1878–1962) Austrianovel, short story, poetry, dramaAustrian professorsnotes E. Kolbenheyer was nominated by professors of aesthetics and history from Vienna, Austria and Tübingen, Germany.13Josip Kosor (1879–1961) Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia(Croatia) novel, poetry, dramaBranislav Petronijević (1875–1954)14Eduard Meyer (1855–1930)Weimar Republic GermanyhistoryGeorg Wittrock (1876–1957)15Ada Negri (1870–1945)Kingdom of Italy Italypoetry, novel, essaysVittorio Rossi (1865–1938) Giuseppe Gallavresi (1879–1937) Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882–1952) Michele Scherillo (1860–1930)16Kostis Palamas (1859–1943) Kingdom of Greece Greecepoetry, essaysSimos Menardos (1872–1933)nob17Cesare Pascarella (1858–1940)Kingdom of Italy Italypoetry, essaysPompeo Gherardo Molmenti (1852–1928) Paolo Boselli (1838–1932) Giovanni Gentile (1875–1944)18Samuel Parsons Scottnotes Scott: "History of the Moorish Empire in Europe" (1904). (1846–1929)United States 1912essays, history, lawEdgar Ewing Brandon (1865–1957)19Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) Austrianovel, poetry, drama, essaysWalther Brecht (1876–1950)notes nob The nomination was supported by Anders Österling. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 1926 was reserved. This nomination, originally made in 1926, was carried over to the nominations for 1927.20Edvard Westermarck (1862–1939)Finlandphilosophy, essays8 members of the Finnish Scientific Society21Edith Wharton (1862–1937) United States 1912novel, short story, poetry, essays7 professors at the Yale University Prize decision 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature#Prize decision 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature#Prize decision In November 1927, the Swedish Academy announced that the postponed prize for 1926 was awarded to the Italian writer Grazia Deledda, but that no Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 1927 would be awarded with the following explanation: "During the selection process, the Nobel Committee for Literature decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as outlined in Alfred Nobel's will. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can in such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied." During the deliberations for the 1927 prize, the Nobel committee considered the Greek poet Kostis Palamas, but his candidacy was hindered as the committee members were not able to read his poetry in the original language. Hugo von Hofmannsthal were also considered, but the committee found his works too uneven to find support for a recommendation. The committee found recent works by Danish author Johannes V. Jensen to be "overwhelmingly attractive", but the committee had "not found their merits to outweigh the offensive and hurtful features of his earlier production, otherwise remarkable for its imaginative power and immediacy. Should the continued development correspond to the promises that have been made recently, the Committers would be happy to change their position hitherto taken."Nobelpriset i litteratur. Nomineringar och utlåtanden 1920-1950 1927 Svensén, Bo Svenska Akademien 2001 Johannes V. Jensen was subsequently awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature. On 13 November 1928, the Swedish Academy decided that the Nobel Prize for 1927 should be awarded to Henri Bergson "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented",Nobelpriset i litteratur. Nomineringar och utlåtanden 1920-1950 1928 Svensén, Bo Svenska Akademien 2001 and Sigrid Undset the prize for 1928.The Nobel Prize in Literature: Nominations and Reports 1901–1950 nobelprize.org Bergson's candidacy had previously, and also in 1928, been dismissed as the committee found it difficult to properly evaluate his work in a field of literature where few other writers were nominated, and their reluctance to recommend non-fiction writers.https://books.google.com/books?id=iG5BEAAAQBAJ&dq=undset+nobelkommiten&pg=PT495 Andens olympiska spel. Nobelpriset historia Källstrand, Gustav 2021 Fri Tanke förlag 978-91-8020-371-5 Swedish Notes References External links Presentation Speech by Per Hallström Category:Henri Bergson 1927 Nobel