NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER
MISS PEARL BUCK The English translation of the inscription of tlie Nobel Prize presented recently to Miss Pearl Buck, American authoress, reads, “For rich and genuine epics of Chinese peasant life and for biographical masterpiece.” Miss Buck, the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize, writer of “The Good Earth,” a novel on Chinese life, travelled about -1000 miles to receive the prize from the hands of King Gustav of Sweden. "Stockholm sent a telegram asking me to come over,” she said later on i her arrival in London. “I was in the ! middle of a new 500-page book on i China and Japan, but I postponed the i work and my husband and I sailed at “The ceremony at Stockholm was j democratic. King Gustav made the j award in the crowded concert hall, j “After the award two Swedish | sailors played the bugles in our hon- ; our. “The Kii’r- entertained us to dinner, j and next night the Crown Prince of ! Sweden was our host at another i’unctiun." i Mis> Buck said she was not Ihinkj ing of returning to China mil.l the 1 war was over. Tim Nobul Prize is wui-Lh about
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20732, 16 February 1939, Page 4
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198NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20732, 16 February 1939, Page 4
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