Monday, August 13, 2007

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Newbery Award

The Newbery award for outstanding children's books by Americans was established in 1922. Each year the award is given to a book published the previous year. More information, including information on recent winners, can be found at the official Newbery Medal Home Page. See also the Children's Literature Web Guide.
  • 1922
  • 1923
    • Medalist: The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
    • (No honor books in 1923)
  • 1924
    • Medalist: The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
    • (No honor books in 1924)
We have not yet determined whether any later Newbery-winning books can go online.

Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to an author from any country who has produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency", was established in 1901. The prize is given to an author, and does not usually cite individual books. Online and other public-domain books by winning authors are listed below. For more information on the Nobel Prize, including information on recent winners, see the official Nobel Prize web site. (That site provided information on many of the titles listed below.)
  • 1901: Sully Prudhomme (France, 1839-1907)
  • 1902: Chrisian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (Germany, 1817-1903)
    • Römische Geschichte (1854-1903)
      • Book 1: Bis zur Abschaffung des Roemischen Koenigtums (orig. 1854-5)
      • Book 2: Von der Abschaffung des roemischen Koenigtums bis zur Einigung Italiens (orig. 1854-5)
      • Book 3: Von der Einigung Italiens bis auf die Unterwerfung Karthagos und der Griechischen Staaten (orig. 1854-5)
        • Gutenberg text
        • Translated by William P. Dickson as From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States
      • Book 4: Die Revolution (orig. 1854-5)
      • Book 5: Die Begruendung der Militaermonarchie (orig. 1854-5)
      • Books 6 and 7 were not completed in Mommsen's lifetime. Versions edited from his lecture notes were first published in German in 1989 and in English in 1996. We do not know of any free online editions of these books.
      • Book 8: Laender und Leute von Caesar bis Diocletian (1885)
        • Gutenberg text
        • Translated by William P. Dickson and separately published as The Provinces of the Roman Empire From Caesar to Diocletian (1909)
  • 1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Norway, 1832-1910)
    • En Glad Gut (1860)
    • De Nygifte (1865)
      • Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The Newly Married Couple
    • Digte og Sange (orig. 1870)
      • Translated by Arthur Hubbell Palmer as Poems and Songs
    • En Fallit (1875)
      • Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The Bankrupt
    • Redaktøren (1875)
      • Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The Editor
    • Kongen (1877)
      • Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The King
    • Leonarda (1879)
      • Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp
    • En Haske (1883)
    • Det flager i byen og på havnen (1884)
    • På Guds Veie (1889)
    • Absalons Haar (1894)
    • Over Oevne, Annet Stykke (1895)
    • Paul Lange og Tora Parsberg (1899)
    • Nar den ny vin blomstrer (1909)
  • 1904: Frédéric Mistral (France, 1830-1914)
    • Miréio (1859)
    • Calendau (1867)
    • Lis Isclo d'Or (1876)
    • Nerto (1884)
    • La Rèino Jano (1890)
    • Lou Pouémo dóu Rose (1897)
    • Moun Espelido: Memori è Raconte (1906)
  • 1904: José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Spain, 1852-1916)
    • La Esposa del Vengador (1874)
    • En el Puño de la Espada (1875)
    • En el Pilar y en la Cruz (1878)
    • Conflicto entre dos Deberes (1882)
    • O Locura ó Santidad (1877)
    • El Gran Galeoto (1881)
  • 1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland, 1846-1916)
    • Ogniem i Mieczem (1884)
    • Potop (1886)
    • Pan Wolodyjowski (1888)
    • Bez Dogmatu (1891)
    • Rodzina Polanieckich (1894)
    • Quo Vadis (1895)
    • Krzyzacy (1900)
    • Na Polu Chwaly (1906)
    • Wiry (1910)
    • W Pustyni i w Puszczy (1912)
  • 1906: Giosuè Carducci (Italy, 1837-1907)
    • Rime (1857)
    • Levia Gravia (1868)
    • Nuove Poesie (1873)
    • Studi Letterati (1874)
    • Bozetti Critici e Discorsi Letterari (1876)
    • Giambi ed Epodi (1882)
  • 1907: Rudyard Kipling (UK, 1865-1936)
  • 1908: Rudolf Christoph Eucken (Germany, 1846-1926)
    • Die Lebensanschauungen der grosser Denker (1890)
    • Der Kampf um einen geistigen Lebensinhalt (1896)
    • Der Wahrheitsgehalt der Religion (1901)
    • Grundlinien einer neuen Lebensanschauung (1907)
    • Geistige Stromungen der Gegenwart (1908)
    • Der Sinn und Wert des Lebens (1908)
    • Present Day Ethics in Their Relation to the Spiritual Life (1913)
  • 1909: Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (Sweden, 1858-1940)
  • 1910: Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse (Germany, 1830-1914)
    • See this page at Projekt Gutenberg-DE for some of his works in German.
    • Andrea Delfin
  • 1911: Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium, 1862-1949)
  • 1912: Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (Germany, 1862-1946)
    • Die Weber (1892)
    • Der Biberpelz (1893)
    • Florian Geyer (1896)
    • Fuhrmann Henschel (1898)
    • Der Arme Heinrich (1902)
    • Rose Bernd (1903)
    • Greichischer Frühling (1908)
    • Die Ratten (1911)
    • Der Bogen des Odysseus (1914)
    • Der Ketzer von Soana (1918)
  • 1913: Rabindranath Tagore (India, 1861-1941)
  • 1914: No award
  • 1915: Romain Rolland (France, 1866-1944)
    • Jean-Christophe (original 4-story series, 1905-1906)
      • Translated by Gilbert Cannan as Jean-Christophe: Dawn, Morning, Youth, Revolt (1910)
    • Jean-Christophe à Paris (1908)
      • Translated by Gilbert Cannan as Jean-Christophe in Paris (1911)
    • Jean-Christophe: La Fin du Voyage (1910-1912)
      • Translated by Gilbert Cannan as Jean-Christophe: Journey's End (1913)
  • 1916: Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden, 1859-1940)
    • Vallfart och vandringsår (1888)
    • Endymion (1889)
    • Hans Alienus (1892)
    • Dikter (1895)
    • Karolinerna (1897-1898)
    • Tankar ock Teckningar (1899)
    • Heliga Birgittas Pilgrimsfärd (1901)
    • Ett Folk (1902)
    • Folkunga Trädet (1905, 1907)
    • Svenskarna och Deras Hövdingar (1908-1910)
    • Dagar och Händelser (1909)
    • Nya Dikter (1915)
  • 1917: Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Denmark, 1857-1919)
  • 1917: Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark, 1857-1943)
  • 1918: No award
  • 1919: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (Switzerland, 1845-1924)
    • See this page at Projekt Gutenberg-DE for some of his works in German.
  • 1920: Knut Pedersen Hamsun (Norway, 1859-1952)
    • Ny Jord (1893)
      • Translated by Carl Christian Hyllested as Shallow Soil (1914)
    • Sult (1899)
    • Pan (1894)
    • Den Siste Glaede (1912)
      • Translated by Paula Wiking as Look Back on Happiness (1940)
    • Markens Gröde (1917)
    • Wanderers (comp. 1922)
  • 1921: Anatole France (France, 1844-1924)
  • 1922: Jacinto Benavente (Spain, 1866-1954)
    • La Gobernadora (1901)
    • Rosas de Otoño (1905)
    • Los Intereses Creados (1907)
    • Señora Ama (1908)
    • La Malquerida (1913)
  • 1923: William Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865-1939)
  • 1924: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (Poland, 1867-1925)
  • 1925: George Bernard Shaw (UK, 1856-1950)

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