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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1916

"in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature"
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
Sweden
b. 1859
d. 1940
 
 
 
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