Imran Abdullah
The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded 110 times since 1901 and has not been awarded for seven years under the circumstances of the two world wars or for accusations of sexual misconduct in 2018. Four times, two writers shared the same prize as in 1904 when French writer Frederic Mistral and Spain's José Ischgaray were crowned .
The average age of all Nobel Literature winners between 1901 and 2017 was around 65 years, suggesting that the award tends to older writers and writers.The youngest winner of the award is Rudyard Kipling, owner of the famous "Jungle Book", while Doris Lessing at 88 years.
The prize was awarded 14 times to female writers including Swedish Selma Lagerlof in 1909 before becoming a member of the Swedish Academy responsible for selecting the winners, according to the Swedish Academy.
Two of the candidates rejected the World Prize, the first is Russian writer Boris Pasternak, who was asked by the Soviet Communist Party not to receive it and did not travel to attend the honoring, as well as the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in his continued rejection of all official decorations, and no writer received the Nobel Prize more than Once.
France is the most culminating book of the prize, where it returned to them 15 times, and was in its first year to the French Sole Brodom, and in the second place of the United States and Britain with 12 winners, including the winner in the last year 2017 British writer (Japanese-born) Kazuo Ishiguro Author of "The Remains of the Day" and "Don't Let Me Go".
In 1931 the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Eric Axel Carlfeldt after his death. The Nobel Foundation's statute since 1974 states that the Nobel Prize cannot be awarded to a deceased.
While many believe that Winston Churchill received the Nobel Peace Prize, he was already awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in literature, and between 1945 and 1953 Churchill was nominated 21 times for the Literature Prize and twice for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The British Prime Minister, in addition to his political and military life, was a prolific writer and worked in the press and covered the war in British India and the siege of Malakand and the Sudanese Mahdi Revolution, while he wrote one novel and a short story, more than 130 of his sermons were published in a book, and won the Nobel Prize in literature for "Proficiency in the historical description and biography as well as the wonderful rhetoric in the defense of high human values."
Alfred Nobel had an international horizon in his will, rejecting any consideration of the nationality of the candidates, stressing the selection of the most worthy "whether Scandinavian or not." However, the Swedish Academy, which selects Nobel laureates, was accused of a lack of justice because it made the award a European affair.In 1984, the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy announced that interest in non-European writers was gradually increasing at the Academy, and attempts were being made "to achieve a global distribution."
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According to the language standard, 29 writers who write in English, 15 in French, 13 in German, 11 in Spanish and 7 in Swedish won the prize, while Al-Dhad was the only one.
Egyptian writer and novelist Naguib Mahfouz, known for his realistic literature, was awarded the prize in 1988 at the age of 76.While walking as usual to buy Sabah newspapers on his way to his office, he was surprised by the Nobel Prize, which changed his life and earned him international fame. Mahfouz provided great service to humanity through his literary works.
The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk Nobel has won a collection of his novels, most notably "Jawdat Bey and his sons" (1982), "The Quiet House" (1991), "The White Castle" (1995) and "The Black Book" (1997), as published in Damascus. "(2000)," New Life "(2001)," My Name Is Red "(2003)," Snow "(2004) and" Museum of Innocence "(2008).