Wokół polskich Nobli literackich

Abstract

The paper concerns the procedures of awarding Polish writers, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Władysław Reymont, Czeslaw Miłosz, and Wisława Szymborska, the Nobel Prize. The author is interested not exactly in literary output of the Nobel Prize winners and its estimation but in so to say sociological aspect of the matter that is circumstances of the prize award, the course of the Stockholm ceremonies as well as Polish and worldwide responses of the decisions. Studying this issues, the author managed to get to hitherto unknown materials stored in registry of the Nobel Library in Stockholm, in PAK in Krakow, in the New File Registry in Warsaw, and in Katarzyna Gruber’s folder stored in the Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw. Katarzyna Gruber was a librarian in the Nobel Library in Stockholm. All this results in many interesting, hitherto unknown and sometimes simply sensational pieces of information included in the paper.