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LITERATURE AWARDS Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. STOCKHOLM, November 13. (Received November 14, at 1 p.m.) The Nobel prize for literature in 1927 was awarded to Professor Henri Bergson. The 1928 prize was awarded to Sigrid Undset, the Norwegian woman novelist.—Australian Press Association. [Professor Bergson was. elected a member of the French Academy in 1914. He is one of the greatest ot living philosophers. He has held many important professorships since 1881, and was a professor at tho College of France. Among his books, which have given rise to much discussion, arc ‘Matter and Memory,’_ ‘Laughter,’ and a noteworthy analysis ol evolution.!
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Evening Star, Issue 20023, 14 November 1928, Page 6
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102NOBEL PRIZES Evening Star, Issue 20023, 14 November 1928, Page 6
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