Carl Spitteler
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Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (April 24, 1845 – December 29, 1924) was a Swiss poet of visionary imagination and the author of pessimistic yet heroic verse. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919.
[edit] External links
- Carl Spitteler at the Timeline of Nobel Winners
- Autobiographical sketch
- Official Site of the Carl Spitteler Foundation
Nobel Prize in Literature: Laureates (1901-1925)
1901: Prudhomme | 1902: Mommsen | 1903: Bjørnson | 1904: F.Mistral, Echegaray | 1905: Sienkiewicz | 1906: Carducci | 1907: Kipling | 1908: Eucken | 1909: Lagerlöf | 1910: Heyse | 1911: Maeterlinck | 1912: Hauptmann | 1913: Tagore | 1915: Rolland | 1916: Heidenstam | 1917: Gjellerup, Pontoppidan | 1919: Spitteler | 1920: Hamsun | 1921: France | 1922: Benavente | 1923: Yeats | 1924: Reymont | 1925: Shaw |