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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1974

"for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom"
"for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos"
Eyvind Johnson Harry Martinson
Eyvind Johnson Harry Martinson
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Sweden Sweden
b. 1900
d. 1976		 b. 1904
d. 1978
 
 
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