Nobel Prize in Literature 1912

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1912 was awarded to Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann "primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art"

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