Selection of Poems by Nobel Prize-winning Literature Authors

Author: Song Zhaolin (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Since 1901, the awarding of the Nobel Prize has been considered a "gift left to humanity by an individual for the promotion of human progress and welfare, with a purely idealistic purpose." However, it has long been a riddle left to the world to decipher how to interpret and execute the will, leading to the claim that "the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature seems to be a history of continuously interpreting a will with ambiguous wording." This mystery has puzzled the world for a century and left the Swedish Academy in a difficult position for a century. Theoretically, the Literature Prize is awarded to those "who have created the best works with an idealistic in literature." After World War II, the selection of the Nobel Prize in Literature placed greater emphasis on "literary pioneers" while also believing that only a true portrayal of the value and dilemmas of human existence could be considered a "historically profound idealistic." To date, one hundred and one writers have won the Nobel Prize in Literature; it will become a permanent award that stands the test of time. This book collects four hundred and two poems by twenty-eight poets who won the prize from 1901 to 2004. The translators are mostly renowned translators, many of whom are experts in the study of their respective countries' literatures. Most of the translations are direct translations from the original texts, with only a small number being translated from other languages, making them highly authoritative.