"for his writing which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature"

Biography:

Böll was born in Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia), the December 21, 1917, in a working family. Between 1924 and 1928 went to the elementary school in Cologne Raderthal, and from 1928 to 1937 conducted studies of secondary in Cologne. His first contact with the literature has it in 1937, working in a shop of antique books and articles that will leave a year later with a desire to devote himself to writing. During Nazi Germany marched to a labor camp of the regime that was the only thing he could in the future to enter the University [citation needed]. When I was about to enroll for study of German c in the summer of 1939, he was recruited for the Wehrmacht (German army).

"for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature"

Biography:

Born in London while their parents are going to find a season in Europe. When he was six months old, her parents returned to Australia and settled in Sydney, where his father-farmer-rancher and had to meet a shared ownership, along with three other siblings.

He had a sickly childhood asthma caused only attended the school of their city and sporadic visits to Sydney were very mild because of the violent flare-ups that were little more than isolated in the Blue Montains. When I was thirteen years his parents sent him gives a school in Cheltenham, England where he spends four years in which it happened, according to the same, a miserable life as a settler in an English school. When he was sixteen years with her parents traveled to Europe, including Scandinavia, Norway and Switzerland particularly impressed that, while found to Ibsen and Strinnderg.

"for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom"

Biography:

Born in Svarbjörnsbyn, near Boden, in a modest family (his father, former worker, had a small farm), Eyvind Johnson began working to fourteen years, doing all sorts of odd jobs. After the war, he knows unemployment and poverty that initiate trade unionism and socialist activism. Throughout his life, there will be faithful.

From 1921 to 1923, he moved to Berlin and Paris where he lives meager fees from two newspapers Socialists. In 1924 he published a first collection of short stories: The four foreigners then to a novel anti-capitalist accents: Timans and justice in 1925. That same year he returned to France to another long stay. From 1926 to 1930, Johnson lives in Saint-Leu Forest (95320) in a modest building. His son, Tor will become art photographer born in Saint Leu in 1927.Une commemorative plaque is placed at number 2 in the rue de Boissy.

"for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos"

Biography:

He loses his young parents (his mother, widow, abandoned at the age of six years starting in the USA) and is placed by the municipality to farmers under a system of auction humiliating. He knows the misery and decides to commit to 16 years on a boat. He spent the next seven years traveling around the world, including Brazil and India.

After health problems (tuberculosis), he settled permanently in Sweden (1927), where it sometimes leads a life of wandering, and began to publish poems in various newspapers. It is the world's knowledge and dispossession that transcribes in his books. All his work is touring around the ideal of social justice.