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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1951

"for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind"
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
Sweden
b. 1891
d. 1974
 
 
 
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