1934 Nobel Prize in Literature

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1934 Nobel Prize in Literature
Luigi Pirandello
"for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art."
Date
  • 8 November 1934 (announcement)
  • 10 December 1934
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Italian dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art".[1] He is the third Italian recipient of the said prize.[2]

Laureate

Main article: Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, prose writer and poet. Pirandello wrote more than 100 short stories, 40 plays and seven novels, including

absurd theatre in the 1950s. Pirandello's first major play Right You Are (if You Think You Are) (1917) explored his lifelong subject of the relativity of truth. In the experimental metaplay Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) Pirandello contrasted art and life. It was followed by the tragedy Henry IV (1922). Other plays include Each in His Own Way (1924) and Tonight We Improvise (1930).[3][4]

Nominations

Luigi Pirandello was only nominated once for the Nobel Prize in Literature, in the year he was awarded.

Karel Capek, Kostis Palamas, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Francisco García Calderón, Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício, Olav Duun and Upton Sinclair.[6]

Award ceremony speech

At the award ceremony on 10 December 1934, Per Hallström, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy said:

"The most remarkable feature of Pirandello’s art is his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre. Usually the theatre requires human stereotypes; here the spirit is like a shadow, obscurity behind obscurity, and one cannot decide what is more or less central inside. Finally one racks his brains, for there is no centre. Everything is relative, nothing can be grasped completely, and yet the plays can sometimes seize, captivate, and charm even the great international public. This result is wholly paradoxical. As the author himself explained, it depends on the fact that his works «arise out of images taken from life which have passed through a filter of ideas and which hold me completely captive». It is the image which is fundamental, not, as many have believed, the abstract idea disguised afterwards by an image."[7]

References

  1. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1934". nobelprize.org.
  2. ^ "Luigi Pirandello wins Nobel Prize; Italian Playwright's General Contribution to Literature Is Basis of Award". The New York Times. 9 November 1934.
  3. ^ "Luigi Pirandello summary". britannica.com.
  4. ^ "Luigi Pirandello - Facts". nobelprize.org.
  5. ^ "Nomination archive Luigi Pirandello". nobelprize.org.
  6. ^ "Nomination archive 1934". nobelprize.org.>
  7. ^ "Award ceremony speech". nobelprize.org.

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