FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN TO WIN NOBEL PRIZE
The English translation of the inscription of the Nobel Prize presented recently to Miss Pearl Buck, American authoress, reads, “For rich and genuine epics of Chinese peasant, life and for biographical masterpiece.” Miss Buck, the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize, writer of “The Good Earth,” a novel on Chinese life, travelled about 4000 miles to receive the prize from the hands of King Gustav of Sweden. . “Stockholm sent a telegram asking me to come over,” she said later on her arrival in London. “I was in the middle of a new 500-page book on China and Japan, but I postponed the work and my husband and I sailed at once for Europe. “The ceremony at Stockholm was democratic. King Gustav made the award in the crowded concert hall. “After the award two Swedish sailors played the bugles in our honour “The King entertained us to dinner, and next night the Crown Prince of Sweden was our host at another function.” " Miss Buck said she was not thinking of returning to China until the war was over.
The Nobel Prize is worth about £7500.
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Southland Times, Issue 23740, 11 February 1939, Page 16
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