"not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces"

Biography:

Giosuè Carducci, born July 27, 1835 in Val di Castello outside of Pisa, died Feb. 16, 1907, Italian poet and professor. Nobel Prize winners in literature in 1906.

Like the 1905 Act of Nobel Prize winners Henryk Sienkiewicz characterized Carduccis production of a strong patriotic vein. He was in his poetry strongly inspired by old Italian and Roman literature, Virgil, Dante, Tasso and Alfieri.

"in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author"

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling, born Dec. 30, 1865 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India, died Jan. 18, 1936 in his house near Batemans Burwash, East Sussex, England, UK, was an English writer and poet. Named after the lake Rudyard in Staffordshire.

Kipling was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in India. As a child he lived with relatives in England, but then moved with his parents in Lahore (in present Pakistan). He became a journalist for Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore and went around India as a correspondent. In 1889 he received a year's leave and traveled through Japan, China and North America to England. In 1892 he married Caroline Balestier, and was with her three children, Josephine, Elsie and John.

"in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life"

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Rudolf Eucken, born Jan. 5, 1846 in Aurich, the death of 14 or 15 September 1926 in Jena, a German philosopher.

He was appointed professor of philosophy at Basel in 1871 and 1874 in Jena. Along with several contributions to the History of Philosophy (Beiträge zur Geschichte der neuern Philosophies, vornehemlich der deutschen, 1886 and others) have Eucken developed an autonomous philosophical authors of the large size and real importance. He proves this influenced by Fichte Elder, but also touches on the Platonism. He is seeking a "inbegrepp of the spiritual lifvet", which goes beyond the individual and constitute a single entity in reality and its changes. This single unit is not reached by the sensual concept, but by reason of noologisk, not psychological means. Both naturalism, which takes the spiritual life so as a natural process, and INTELLECTUALISM, which adopts all the same elements as uniformly closed in consciousness, is under Eucken unsustainable.

"in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings"

Biography:

Selma Lagerlöf was born in 1858 at the manor Mårbacka in Eastern Ämtervik, Värmland. She was the daughter and fourth child of Lieutenant Erik Gustaf Lagerlöf and Kajsa Lovisa Lagerlöf, born Wall Roth. She was born with a hip injury which was caused by the ledkulan hip lacked proper fastener.

When Lagerlöf was three and a half years old, she became sick and completely paralyzed in both legs. It disappeared just as suddenly as it had come, but she had during her childhood is not as easy to play as other children.