The 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with
"for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty."
Theater poster for Pygmalion in Slovenia performed on 20 December 1927.
The 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are disting
1925 Nobel Prize in Literature
…1923). George Bernard Shaw was nominated seven times before he, in 1926, was awarded the 1925 prize. He was first recommended to the Nobel Committee in 1911 by British scholar Gilbert Murray and in 1912 by Norwegian academic Kristian Birch-Reichenwald Aars. His nominations came back in 1921 to 1926, when…
"in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations."
A 1906 illustration of the play by Nicholas Roerich.