NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 512, 15 November 1928, Page 11

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

LITERATURE AWARDS FRANCE AND NORWAY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) STOCKHOLM, Tuesday. The Nobel Prize for Literature for 1927 has been awarded to M. Henri Bergson, and the 1928 prize has been awarded to 45igrid Undset, the Norwegian woman novelist. M. Henri Louise Bergson was born in Paris in 1859, and after holding sundry educational positions became in 1900 a professor at the College de France. The principal works In which he has propounded his philosophy are “An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness,” first published in ISB9, and translated into English in 1910; “Matter and Memory,” published in 1896, and translated in 1911; and best known of all, “Creative Evolution/' published in 1907, and translated in 1911. He has also written a notable treatise on “Laughter,” “Introduction to Metaphysics,” and “Matter and Memory.” He is the most strenuous opponent of the material conception of life. He has a particularly fine literary style. Madame Sigrid Undset is the wife of C. A. Bvarstad, a painter, and they have three children. She was barn in 1882, m Norway. Her first stories appeared m 1907. Between 1920 and 1922 apl>eared her most notable work, the- trilogy °L noVels ' “Kristin Lavrans Datter, ” which deals with the destinies of a Norwegian woman. The setting is in the 1 4th century, but the characters are quite modern. This book had an enormous vogue in Norway, where with a population of 2,600,000, an edition of 200.000 copies was called for. In 1925 Sigrid i ndset issued a two-volume novel, “Olaf of Hestoiken,” the hero of s-k lcn is 1116 male counterpart of Kristin. was awarded tne Nobel Prise for «« ? ratur * * n 1925, being the first woman lo be so honoured.