Awards & Winners

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Date of Birth 16-September-1888
Place of Birth Hämeenkyrö
(Finland)
Nationality Finland
Also know as Frans Eemil Sillanpaa
Profession Writer, Novelist
Frans Eemil Sillanpää was one of the most famous Finnish writers and in 1939 became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

Awards by Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Check all the awards nominated and won by Frans Eemil Sillanpää.

1939


Nobel Prize in Literature
(for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature.)

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Nobel Prize in Literature

1938


Nominations 1938 »

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Nobel Prize in Literature

1937


Nominations 1937 »

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Nobel Prize in Literature

1936


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Nobel Prize in Literature

1935


Nominations 1935 »

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Nobel Prize in Literature

1934


Nominations 1934 »

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Nobel Prize in Literature

1933


Nominations 1933 »

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Nobel Prize in Literature

1932


Nominations 1932 »

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Nobel Prize in Literature

1931


Nominations 1931 »

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Nobel Prize in Literature

1930


Nominations 1930 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nobel Prize in Literature