Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature
Year:1901
Number:25 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Malwida von Meysenbug [Meysenburg]
Gender:F
Year, Birth:1816
Year, Death:1903
Profession:Author
City:Rome
Country:ITALY (IT)
 
Motivation:"Mémoires d´une idéaliste", 2 vols, 1900. "Der Lebensabend einer Idealistin", supplement from "Memoiren einer Idealistin", 3rd edition, 1900. ('Memoirs of Malwida von Meysenbug') "Stimmungsbilder" ('Images of the Mood'), 3rd edition, 1900.
 
Nominator:
Name:Gabriel Monod
Gender:M
Profession:Historian
University:French Institute (Institut de France)
Country:FRANCE (FR)
 
Comments: The nomination by Gabriel Monod was made through Björnstjerne Björnson. Memoirs of Malwida von Meysenbug : Rebel in bombazine / edited by Mildred Adams from the translation of Elsa von Meysenbug Lyons. – New York : Norton, 1936. – Abridged translation of the author’s "Memoiren einer idealistin und ihr nachtrag: Der lebensabend einer idealistin”.