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Carl Spitteler
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Carl Spitteler

Author · born April 24, 1845 · died 1924

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Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.

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  1. ~74Received the Nobel Prize in Literature1919

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