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    Title

  • Nelly Sachs receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature from King Gustav Adolf of Sweden

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    1966

  • Place of Publication

    [Stockholm]

  • Summary

    Nelly Sachs receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature from King Gustav Adolf of Sweden during a ceremony at City Hall in Stockholm.

  • Depicted

    Gustav, VI Adolf, King of Sweden, 1882-1973; Sachs, Nelly, 1891-1970

  • Subject

    Portraits, Women

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Nelly Sachs Collection, AR 3991

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Leonie Nelly Sachs was born in Berlin on December 10, 1891. She arrived in Sweden as a refugee with her mother on May 16, 1940. She remained in Sweden as a writer and traslator, receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. Nelly Sachs died in Stockholm on May 12, 1970.

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Citation

Nelly Sachs receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature from King Gustav Adolf of Sweden, Leo Baeck Institute, F 13729.