Nobel Prize-winners

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21478, 29 April 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

Nobel Prize-winners

1 WOMEN IN LITERATURE ® © ffi B©©©©©ffi©®®®®®®®®®®*®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®^ Tr, W -VI vears the five annual to the Swedish Academy, " the eighteen In the last <sl 3cars tne 1 immortals," the first woman to bo thus Nobel prizes of approximately i«UUU honoured / each, have been awarded to thoso " who j Q jggcj t j lo Swedish Government coinshall have most materially benefited missioned Miss Lagerlof to go to Palesmankind in physics, chemistry, inedi- tine to report on conditionsl prevailing manKina in pu.>t> , among the Swedish colony of emigrants cine, in the fie.d of literature and the there ft umourß ] ua( l reached Sweden of promotion of peace." 'lhe delicate direful conditions, of disease and linnSwedish bachelor, Alfred Nobel, left the gcr and of bickerings among the execution * Swedish j„d E o, •• beoauso 'JSZFSA I have found moio honest men in an j exaggerated rumours. But she Sweden than elsewhere "; yet one pro- did more; she gathered material for 0110 vision of the will has been carefully fill- of her most graphic books, " Jerusafilled —" No consideration whatever i e,n ; lnno ti . ~ ... • The prize for 1928 was awarded to shall bo paid to the nationality or sex g igr j (l XJndset, who has been called "the of the candidates." It was his desire novelist of medieval Norway and ageless that all races should be equally eligible humanity." She was born in Denmark, , ~ , her father being a noted archaeologist, for these awaids. . Through her parent she studied NorProof of this is to be found in the wog ; an history, and strove to be as fact that the prizes have gone at differ- thorough in the search for truth in her ent times to Great Britain, France, Gcr- field, as her father had been in his. W* <*•* Mr and other S^eelJlaZrdeltSlThal countries, and that they have been 8t j{| o ] icr writing and do secretarial awarded to women as well as to men. work at Oslo. Yet in tho evenings and The oulv woman ever to receive tho on occasional holidays the urge to write i n„,:„ fiction trained its hold upon ner. olie science award is Madame Curio, but ( her first novel , at 25, and at the literature prize has several tunes P lO , fi , . << y ennv " by which been won by women, of whom the most W her filst *t°ry, •«»>> notable arc Selma Lagerlof and Sigrid gained attention in licr o*n coun Undset. . . "Affpr this she married the artist Selma ==■ S3 SLMa A career she had always shown, her earn- 'it r , , phnroh to which she est desire to benefit .naokind.-" When and toWteO' "h, the Nobei Prize was given to her, with has becomoj eonjert a grand fete at Stockholm 111 1909, sa , un fji thev become part of herself, was tho guest of honour at a banquet acters until tney i through eir ™ v „.,? b e o r i TTr tSraJllaiSia, recehed a c o,d not . * Wok * jajinat .»" «-omedal for her work from the Swedish drama, but } vivid backAcademy, and the degree of LL.D. from te J^£ ac ' ters and backgrounds of SIK STJ&« centuries in Norway