1922 Nobel Prize in Literature
 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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| Jacinto Benavente | |
 "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama" | |
| Date |
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| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Presented by | Swedish Academy |
| First awarded | 1901 |
| Website | Official website |
The 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Spanish dramatist Jacinto Benavente[1] (1866–1954) "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".[2]
Laureate
[edit]Jacinto Benavente y Martinez is considered to be one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. A prolific author of more than 150 plays, his plays shows a broad range including social commentry, comedy and tragedy. His most celebrated play Los intereses creados ("The Bonds of Interest"; performed 1903, published 1907) was based on the Italian commedia dell’arte.[3]
Nominations
[edit]Jacinto Benavente was first nominated in 1921 by 21 members of the Royal Spanish Academy, and again the following year by the Nobel committee.[4] In total, the committee received 30 nominations for 22 authors which included Georg Brandes, Grazia Deledda (awarded in 1926), John Galsworthy (awarded in 1932).Thomas Hardy, Arno Holz, Wladyslaw Reymont (awarded in 1924), W. B. Yeats (awarded in 1923), and Stefan Zeromski. Ten of the nominees were newly nominated such as Roberto Bracco, Paul Ernst, Darrell Figgis, William Inge, Michael Sadleir, Matilde Serao, Sigrid Undset (awarded in 1928), Ludwig von Pastor, Israel Zangwill. There were three female writers nominated: two from Italy (Grazia Deledda and Matilde Serao) and one from Norway (Sigrid Undset).[5]
The authors Lyman Abbott, Lima Barreto, Clementina Black, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Gerard Bolland, Elizabeth Williams Champney, Erskine Childers, Alfred Espinas, Nellie Blessing Eyster, Géza Gárdonyi, Constance Jones, Velimir Khlebnikov, Henry Lawson, Alice Meynell, Renzo Novatore, Mori Ōgai, Marcel Proust, Gabriel Séailles, George Robert Sims, Georges Sorel, Giovanni Verga died in 1922 without having been nominated for the prize.
| No. | Nominee | Country | Genre(s) | Nominator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954) |  Spain
|
drama | Nobel Committee |
| 2 | Roberto Bracco (1861–1943) |  Italy
|
drama, screenplay |
|
| 3 | Georg Brandes (1842–1927) |  Denmark
|
literary criticism, essays |
|
| 4 | Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) |  Italy
|
novel, short story, essays | Carl Bildt (1850–1931) |
| 5 | Paul Ernst (1866–1933) |  Germany
|
novel, short story, drama, essays | Paul Natorp (1854–1924) |
| 6 | Darrell Figgis (1882–1925) |  Ireland
|
poetry, novel, essays | Thomas Rudmose-Brown (1878–1942) |
| 7 | John Galsworthy (1867–1933) |  United Kingdom
|
novel, drama, essays, short story, memoir | Nobel Committee |
| 8 | Bertel Gripenberg (1878–1947) |  Finland
|
poetry, drama, essays | Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) |
| 9 | Ángel Guimerá Jorge (1845–1924) | Spain
|
drama, poetry | Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona |
| 10 | Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889–1975) |  Iceland
|
novel, short story, poetry | Adolf Noreen (1854–1925) |
| 11 | Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) | United Kingdom
|
novel, short story, poetry, drama |
|
| 12 | Arno Holz (1863–1929) | Germany
|
poetry, drama, essays | 39 professors from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia |
| 13 | William Ralph Inge (1860–1954) | United Kingdom
|
theology, essays | Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) |
| 14 | Władysław Reymont (1867–1925) |  Poland
|
novel, short story | Nobel Committee |
| 15 | Michael Sadleir (1888–1957) | United Kingdom
|
novel, essays | Nobel Committee |
| 16 | Matilde Serao (1856–1927) | Italy
|
novel, essays |
|
| 17 | Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) |  Norway
|
novel, memoir, essays | Frederik Poulsen (1876–1950) |
| 18 | Georg von Below (1858–1927) | Germany
|
history, essays | Hermann Bächtold (1882–1934) |
| 19 | Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928) | Germany
|
history |
|
| 20 | William Butler Yeats | Ireland
|
poetry, drama, essays | Nobel Committee |
| 21 | Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) | United Kingdom
|
novel, drama, translation | Adolf Noreen (1854–1925) |
| 22 | Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925) |  Poland
|
novel, drama, short story | Nobel Committee |
Prize decision
[edit]The main contenders among the shortlisted candidates for the prize in 1922 were Benavente and the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, who was awarded the following year.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Prize Winner for Spain" (PDF). The New York Times. June 20, 1920. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 nobelprize.org
- ^ "Jacinto Benavente". britannica.com.
- ^ "Nomination archive Jacinto Benavente". nobelprize.org.
- ^ "Nomination archive - Literature 1922". nobelprize.org.
- ^ Alan Asaid (11 December 2012). "Yeats och Nobelpriset" (in Swedish). kulturdelen.com.
