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Carl Spitteler
1845Apr, 24

Carl Spitteler

Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) 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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