[102] _Romain Rolland: the Man and His Work_ by Stefan Zweig, translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, New York, 1921. By permission of Thomas Seltzer. [103] See his _Tolstoy_, translated by Bernard Miall, London and New York, 1911. [104] _Century Magazine_, August, 1913, article on Rolland by Alvan V. Sanborn. [105] _Romain Rolland: the Man and His Work_ by Stefan Zweig, translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, New York, 1915. By permission of Thomas Seltzer. [106] _Jean-Christophe_ by Romain Rolland, translated by Gilbert Cannan, Vol. III, p. 348, New York and London, 1913. By permission of Henry Holt & Co. [107] _Romain Rolland: the Man and His Work_ by Stefan Zweig, New York, 1921, p. 270. [108] _Annette and Sylvie: Being Volume One of the Soul Enchanted_ by Romain Rolland, translated from the French by Ben Ray Redman, New York, 1925. By permission of Henry Holt & Co. CHAPTER XII A GROUP OF WINNERS--NOVELISTS AND POETS HEIDENSTAM OF SWEDEN (1916) PONTOPPIDAN AND GJELLERUP OF DENMARK (1917) CARL SPITTELER OF SWITZERLAND (1919) The prize of 1916 has been awarded: Heidenstam, Verner von, born 1859: “in recognition of his significance as spokesman of a new epoch in our literature.”[109] “Sweden’s Laureate” is the name often given to Verner von Heidenstam who won the prize in 1916. By public, competitive vote of his countrymen he had been chosen as the most popular poet before he was accorded this world honor. He is less familiar, by translation in English, than his compatriot who preceded him in recognition by the Swedish Academy, Selma Lagerlöf. His plays, novels, and poems are gaining new appreciation through the translations in recent years by Charles Wharton Stork, Arthur J. Chater, and Karoline M. Knudsen. He was born of aristocratic family at the manor house of Olshammar in Närke, July 6, 1859. As a boy he was never strong; he was shy and loved to read, especially poetry and hero stories. When he was in early adolescence, he developed such a condition that lung-disease was feared and he was sent to the south of Europe for a milder climate. For eight years he was away from Sweden, spending time in Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. Some of his ancestors had been in governmental positions in the Orient; he was lured by the picturesqueness and freedom of these lands.