I read every Nobel Literature Prize winner from 1913 to 1921, and this is what I found

It is the third week of my reading challenge - to read all 120 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature before the 2024 winner is announced.
In week three of the 120 Nobels reading challenge I introduce you to the Nobel Prizes stained by World War One - from Rolland in 1915 to France in 1921.
What do these great writers have to do with war and peace, fascism and socialism, and with some of the most notorious people in world history?
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[@jackinkol1835]

I'm definitely going to be seeking out the work of Henrik Pontoppidan; fantastic video!

[@abooswalehmosafeer173]

Loving it.

[@Toggitryggva]

Earlier this year I read a massive three volume book on Hamsun's Treason trial, by Thorkild Hansen. Written in danish and probably.not available in english. A truly great piece of writing, very sympathetic to Hamsun, but also quite revealing about the extent of his and his families' Nazi sympathies. The chapter about Hamsun's 1943 meeting with Hitler, to try to get the german governor of Norway replaced is just chilling.
I also read Hamsun's last book, Paa gjengrodde stier (On Overgrown paths) that he wrote during his house-arrest and while he was being eveluated in a psychiatric hospital. A great piece of writing, that makes the case of his „diminished mental capacities“ rather silly.
A last trivia note on Hamsun: My country's only Nobel Laureate wrote his most acclaimed novel as a direct refutation of the message of Hamsun's Growth of the Soil. Or so he sometimes claimed.

[@cyberpunkalphamale]

I do this with Hugo, Nebula, Philip K. Dick, and Pulitzer prizes.