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The 1946
Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...
was awarded to the German author Hermann Hesse "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style".


Laureate

Hermann Hesse was a novelist and a poet whose writings are influenced by the likes of
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, Buddha, Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky. His best known works – '' Demian'' (1919), '' Siddhartha'' (1922), ''
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'' (1927), and '' Das Glasperlenspiel'' ("The Glass Bead Game", 1943) – deals with the individual's search for self-knowledge and
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, often through mysticism.


Deliberations


Nominations

Hermann Hesse was nominated for the prize eight times, first in
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by the 1929 Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann. In 1946 the Nobel committee received one nomination for Hesse by the Swiss literature professor and author
Robert Faesi Robert Faesi (10 April 1883 Zürich – 10 September 1972, Zollikon) was a Swiss writer and academic concerned with Literature and language Life Son of the businessman Heinrich Friedrich Faesi, Robert Faesi was born into a well established and ...
, and one nomination by Anders Österling of the Swedish Academy. In total, the Nobel committee received 32 nominations for 22 writers including
Nikolai Berdyaev Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (; russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев;  – 24 March 1948) was a Russian Empire, Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialism, Christian existentialist who e ...
,
T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...
(awarded in
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), E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells, Arnulf Øverland, Georges Duhamel, and Marie Under. Nine of the authors were first-time nominated namely André Gide (awarded in
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), François Mauriac (awarded in
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),
Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...
(awarded in
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),
Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...
(awarded in 1958), Sholem Asch, Tarjei Vesaas, Angelos Sikelianos and Ignazio Silone. The Swiss author Charles Ferdinand Ramuz was the most nominated with four nominations. Marie Under and
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício Maria Madalena Valdez Trigueiros de Martel Patrício (19 April 1884 – 3 November 1947) was a Portuguese novelist and poet who became the first Portuguese woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.Marion Angus Marion Emily Angus (1865–1946) was a Scottish poet who wrote in the Scots vernacular or Braid Scots, defined by some as a dialect of English and others as a closely related language. Her prose writings are mainly in standard English. She is s ...
,
Octave Aubry Octave Aubry (1 September 1881, Paris – 27 March 1946) was a French novelist and historian. Biography Aubry, Ernest Seillière, Jean Tharaud, René Grousset and Robert d'Harcourt were the five members of the Académie française elected on ...
, Eduard Bass, John Langalibalele Dube, Ronald Fangen, Constance Garnett, Harley Granville-Barker, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Violet Jacob, Orrick Glenday Johns, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Ernest Rhys, Alfred Rosenberg, Damon Runyon, Thomas Scott-Ellis, Edward Sheldon, Mary Amelia St. Clair (''known as'' May Sinclair), Gertrude Stein, Booth Tarkington and
Ibn Zaydan Abd al-Rahman ibn Zaydan () (June 1873 – 1946) was a Moroccan historian and literary author.E. J. van Donzel, ''Islamic Desk Reference: Compiled from the Encyclopaedia of Islam'', ed. BRILL, 1994 , p. 163 "His works may be considered as the bes ...
died in 1946 without having been nominated for the prize.


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1946 Award ceremony speech
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