12/10/1954 AD awarded

Peace Prize

UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Literature

Hemingway "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."

When Hemingway received the Nobel Prize , he modestly told the press that Carl Sandburg, Isak Dinesen and Bernard Berenson deserved the prize, but he gladly accepted the prize money.

Mellow says Hemingway "had coveted the Nobel Prize", but when he won it, months after his plane accidents and the ensuing worldwide press coverage, "there must have been a lingering suspicion in Hemingway's mind that his obituary notices had played a part in the academy's decision."

Because he was suffering pain from the African accidents, he decided against traveling to Stockholm. Instead he sent a speech to be read, defining the writer's life:

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

Physics

Walther Bothe "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"

Bothe received half of the prize; the other half was awarded to Max Born for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".

Stockholm

Lattitude: 59.3294° N
Longitude: 18.0686° E
Region: Europe

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