Erik Axel Karlfeldt's Nobel Prize diploma
- ID-nummer
- 2000.001.001:b
- Titel
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt's Nobel Prize diploma
- Objektkategori
- Mynt, medaljer & diplom
- Publik beskrivning
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The 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded for the poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt. Karlfeldt, who had been the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, had died a few months before the prize was awarded. Since 1974, Nobel Prizes cannot be awarded posthumously.
The Nobel Prize diploma was created by the artist Berta Svensson-Piehl, who described the diploma as follows:
“Erik Axel Karlfeldt’s poetry was like a deeply-rooted, fruit-bearing tree, with a fresh spring at its foot. The figure is a symbol of the art of poetry, a Fridolin with his golden lyre. At his feet lies a cornucopia with Flora and Pomona. The deer a symbol of the listening audience. The laurel wreath symbolises the Nobel Prize, the golden corn sheaf bowing down to the earth and the figure pointing upwards to the clouds signify that the prize was awarded after the poet’s death.”
The diploma was donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by Erik Axel Karlfeldt's family in 2000. - Pristagare
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- Provenance
- 873 Nobel Museum Temporary