Nobel Prize
The Nobel prize for literature is an annual international award granted through the Swedish Academy in Stockholm and financed by the Swedish National Bank. The prize is awarded by a committee of scholars who decide on the most eminent literary work of the year. The Nobel prize is named for Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896), a wealthy Swedish chemist and engineer who created dynamite, and who established the awards for literature and other areas such as chemistry and peace. Rene F.A. Prudhomme was the first prize winner in 1901. He was the son of a shopkeeper in France. His goal was to become an engineer, but unfortunately he caught an eye disease which stopped him from getting his degree. Instead, he began to study literature and to write poems. He wrote many books such as Croquis Italiens, Solitudes, Impressions de la guerre, Les Destines, La Revolte des Fleurs and many more which were eventually published in an edition of assorted poems in 1900-01. Another award winner was an......
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