Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May 1891 – 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature. Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays...
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The 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist "for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours...
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Gassman, and Jack Palance. The screenplay is based on Nobel Prize-winner Pär Lagerkvist's 1950 novel of the same title. The film was shot in Verona and Rome...
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Lagerkvist, Lagerqvist or Lagerquist is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974), Swedish author Claes-Ingvar...
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Barabbas (novel) (category Novels by Pär Lagerkvist)
Barabbas is a 1950 novel by Pär Lagerkvist. It tells a version of the life of Barabbas, the man whom the Bible relates was released instead of Jesus. The...
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The Dwarf (Swedish: Dvärgen) is a 1944 novel by Pär Lagerkvist. It is considered his most important and artistically innovative novel. It was translated...
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Look up pär or pär- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pär is a given name, a Scandinavian form of Peter. Notable people with the name include: Pär Arlbrandt...
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(Cho novel), a 1978 novel by Cho Se-hui The Dwarf (Lagerkvist novel), a 1944 novel by Pär Lagerkvist Dwarfs?! (video game) Dwarves (band), American punk...
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English drama by Clemence Dane Mariamne (1967), a Swedish novel by Pär Lagerkvist The Black Rose (novel) by Thomas B. Costain makes comparison of the...
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played the title role in the 1961 film Barabbas, based on a novel by Pär Lagerkvist. In 1962, he returned to Broadway, playing the role of Caesario Grimaldi...
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Cockcroft; Ernest Walton Edwin McMillan; Glenn T. Seaborg Max Theiler Pär Lagerkvist Léon Jouhaux 1952 Felix Bloch; Edward Mills Purcell Archer Martin; Richard...
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(Nobel laureate 1909), Verner von Heidenstam (Nobel laureate 1916) and Pär Lagerkvist (Nobel laureate 1951). In recent decades, a handful of Swedish writers...
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Italian film directed by Roger Young Barabbas (novel), a 1950 novel by Pär Lagerkvist Barabbas (play), a 1928 play by Belgian dramatist Michel de Ghelderode...
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Hebrew novel by Aaron Orinowsky Mariamne (1967), a Swedish novel by Pär Lagerkvist Claudius the God (1934), an English novel by Robert Graves, features...
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directed by Alf Sjöberg. It is based on the 1950 novel Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist about the biblical character who was released instead of Jesus. The...
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Falkberget and Marie Under. Eleven were nominated first-time such as Pär Lagerkvist (awarded in 1951), Ernest Hemingway (awarded in 1954), Mikhail Sholokov...
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Karlfeldt Galsworthy Bunin Pirandello du Gard Sillanpää Jensen Hesse Russell Lagerkvist Mauriac Churchill Laxness Jiménez Pasternak Quasimodo Andrić Seferis Sholokhov...
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von Heidenstam in 1916, the posthumous prize to Karlfeldt in 1931, Pär Lagerkvist in 1951, and the shared prize to Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson...
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total, the Nobel committee received 79 nominations for 54 writers. Pär Lagerkvist (awarded in 1951) received seven nominations and was named a favorite...
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Muhammad Ayub Khan Pakistan 14 May 1907 19 April 1974 Politician Books Pär Lagerkvist Sweden 23 May 1891 11 July 1974 Writer Barabbas Eve Langley New Zealand...
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by Louis Auchincloss The Sybil or Sibyllan, a 1956 Swedish novel by Pär Lagerkvist The Sybil, an American dress reform periodical founded by Lydia Sayer...
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François Mauriac (awarded in 1952), Carl Sandburg, Georges Duhamel, and Pär Lagerkvist (awarded in 1951). 9 of the nominees were nominated first-time among...
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produce notable authors, such as Selma Lagerlöf (Nobel laureate 1909) and Pär Lagerkvist (Nobel laureate 1951). A well-known proletarian writer who gained fame...
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Under and Elisaveta Bagryana. The 1951 Nobel laureate Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist nominated his countrymen and colleagues in the Swedish Academy, authors...
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Sami journalist and children's novelist Olof Lagercrantz (1911–2002) Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974) Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) Dagmar Lange (Maria Lang) (1914–1991)...
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Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Pär Lagerkvist, Halldór Laxness, Nelly Sachs, Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson and Tomas...
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(serialized in 1940, published in the 1953 compilation Revolt in 2100) Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf (1944) Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (1946) – political...
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Hamsun, Sammy Harkham, Werner Herzog, Bohumil Hrabal, Shirley Jackson, Pär Lagerkvist, Harry Mathews, Steven Millhauser, Jean Rhys, Robert Walser, and Eudora...
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Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Pär Lagerkvist, Halldór Laxness, Nelly Sachs, Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson, Tomas...
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by expressionism: T. S. Eliot Rudolf Broby-Johansen Tom Kristensen Pär Lagerkvist Edith Södergran In prose, the early stories and novels of Alfred Döblin...
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