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    Carl David af Wirsén

    Poet, literary critic and the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary from 1884-1912

    Carl David af Wirsén was a Swedish poet, literary critic and the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary 1884–1912. Wikipedia

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    Wirsén was born in Vallentuna, Uppland, to Karl Ture af Wirsén and Eleonore von Schulzenheim.. He was also for several years, in company with the historian Hans Forssell, editor of the Swedish Literary Review.. In 1870, he became a lecturer in Swedish and Latin at Katedralskolan in Uppsala.In 1876 he moved to Gothenburg, where he lectured and took care of the museum's library and art ...
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    Den framgångsrike förloraren: en värderingsbiografi över Carl David af Wirsén. Stockholm: Carlsson. Libris 11704413. ISBN 978-91-7331-319-3 Vetterlund, Fredrik, C.D. af Wirsén Några minnesord, i Ord och bild (1912) Vetterlund, Fredrik, Skissblad om poeter (1914) Vetterlund, Fredrik, Romantik, Helsingfors, (1920)
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    Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy on December 10, 1902. The second paragraph of the Nobel statutes states that «Literature» should include not only belles-lettres, «but also other writings that in form or content show literary value». This definition sanctions the award of the Nobel Prize in ...
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    Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on December 10, 1901. When Alfred Nobel decided to make the great donation which has justly received much attention, his entire life's work led him to favour the study of nature and to reward discoveries in some of the sciences concerned with it.
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    Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on December 10, 1905. Wherever the literature of a people is rich and inexhaustible, the existence of that people is assured, for the flower of civilization cannot grow on barren soil. But in every nation there are some rare geniuses who concentrate in ...
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    Carl David af Wirsén, who had earlier been strongly critical of Maeterlincks candidacy, now launched him as a main candidate for the prize. It has been speculated that Wirsén's reappraisal of Maeterlinck was a way of preventing that Selma Lagerlöf , deeply disliked by Wirsén, was awarded the prize, but also that Wirsén had reached a deeper ...
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    1902 Nobel Prize in Literature Presentation Speech. by C. D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 10 December 1902. The second paragraph of the Nobel statutes states that "Literature" should include not only belles-lettres, "but also other writings that in form or content show literary value."
  10. kulturpersoner.uppsalakyrkogardar.se

    Carl David af Wirsén was born in Vallentuna and became associate Professor in literary history in 1868 and lecturer in Swedish and Latin at the higher grammar school in Uppsala in 1870. Wirsén published "Dikter" (1876) and later six more volumes of traditional idyllic poetry and several collections of religious poems.
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    In 1907, the highly influential member of the Nobel committee Carl David af Wirsén advocated a prize for Algernon Charles Swinburne, but ultimately Wirsén chose to support Rudyard Kipling's candidacy as a way of blocking another strong candidate, Selma Lagerlöf, whose writing Wirsén disliked, from being awarded. Hence, Kipling was chosen by ...
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    Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on December 10, 1906. From the unusually large number of poets and authors proposed for the Nobel Prize this year, the Swedish Academy has chosen a great Italian poet who for a long time has attracted the attention both of the Academy and of the entire civilized world.

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