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[schrm]

Nobel Peace Prize winners until 1959...
...in our catalogue

1905 Bertha von Suttner https://librivox.org/author/1482
die waffen nieder! version 2 2019
marthas kinder finished 2020
lay down your arms finished 2021

1906 Theodore Roosevelt https://librivox.org/author/1471
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents finished 2020

1911 Alfred Hermann Fried https://librivox.org/author/13321

1919 Woodrow Wilson https://librivox.org/author/2417

1922 Fridtjof Nansen https://librivox.org/author/289

1931 Jane Addams https://librivox.org/author/1531

1933 Norman Angell https://librivox.org/author/8768

1935 Carl von Ossietzky https://librivox.org/author/2832

1952 Albert Schweitzer https://librivox.org/author/1425

(don't know if this helps.
also, there are several initiatives which i didn't research - and laureates, who got it after 1959 and may be part of our catalogue.)

cheers,
wolfi

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I had to look up Hull House - interesting!

Thank you jo!

[Kitty]

out of curiosity I checked the female Literature laureates which are already PD for LV to do and indeed we have books by all three of them.

> Selma Lagerlöf: her unforgettable Nils Holgersson of course, unfortunately only in translations: https://librivox.org/the-wonderful-adventures-of-nils-by-selma-lagerloef/
> Grazia Deledda: here we have the original Italian novel of Canne al vento: https://librivox.org/canne-al-vento-by-grazia-deledda/
> Sigrid Undset: only her novel Jenny, and not in the original Norwegian unfortunately: https://librivox.org/jenny-by-sigrid-undset/

Sonia

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Cool!

Plus, even though Berta von Suttner won the Peace Prize, she also wrote novels, so...

[Availle]

Oh, I only now see that Wolfi has already mentioned all the Peace Prize winners - including Berta.

Lots of stuff to choose from!

[Availle]

The staff has picked for this month, thank you for your many suggestions! Please have a look at this page for the current pickings. You can also check out our wiki page for a plain vanilla list that contains all the staff picks for this year plus the readers.

Let's get super serious in the dark month of November, with

Prisoners and the Persecuted

I'm thinking of (political) prisoners, people who were persecuted for their views or ideas, people who were wrongfully imprisoned (Count of Monte Christo-style)...

Especially welcome are suggestions of plays and poetry!
And, as always: All languages welcome!

Suggest away!

[Kitty]

Let's get super serious in the dark month of November, with
Prisoners and the Persecuted

the first that immediately came to my mind was Claude Gueux, by Victor Hugo. It's a very sad story, a man goes to prison for stealing food for his starving family, in prison he gets bullied by the supervisor and driven to murder in the end, and hanged. It really got to me. We have it in the original French: https://librivox.org/claude-gueux-by-victor-hugo/

Of course Hugo's more famous Les Misérables would also fit in, but Claude Gueux is much shorter, denser and tragic in a way.

Another French contribution that might fit is Zola's powerful J'accuse, about the Affaire Dreyfus: https://librivox.org/jaccuse-by-emile-zola/

Another suggestion is this account of a suffragette, who spent some time in prison for her fights for women's rights: https://librivox.org/prison-prisoners-some-personal-experiences-by-constance-lytton/ I haven't read it, so I couldn't comment on it, but the synopsis sounds interesting.

Something that also comes close to prisoners is people who get locked up in mental asylums, sometimes only because their relatives want to get rid of them here are three accounts: https://librivox.org/two-years-and-four-months-in-a-lunatic-asylum-by-hiram-chase/ and https://librivox.org/my-experiences-in-a-lunatic-asylum-by-herman-charles-merivale/ and https://librivox.org/diary-written-in-the-provincial-lunatic-asylum-by-mary-huestis-pengilly/

Sonia

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Sonia, these are great suggestions!

I've heard of the Dreyfus affair, but Claude Gueux is new to me.
Mental asylums, hadn't thought about this one at all!

[TriciaG]

https://librivox.org/the-enormous-room-by-e-e-cummings/

He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.
He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation.
He was entombed by the French Government.
It took the better part of three months to find him and bring him back to life—with the help of powerful and willing friends on both sides of the Atlantic.
This is his story.

[Availle]

Wow!

Thank you Tricia!

[TriciaG]

OK, he wasn't really entombed. It was symbolic. (He was in a prison.)

[Availle]

I read the description of the book on Wikipedia.

Still: Wow! Being in prison for 3 months because the judge left and they didn't get a new one for so long is...

[knotyouraveragejo]

Here's another related to the Woman's Suffrage movement

Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens

https://librivox.org/jailed-for-freedom-by-doris-stevens/

[Peter Why]

How about The Man in the Iron Mask?

https://librivox.org/celebrated-crimes-vol-6-part-2-the-man-in-the-iron-mask-by-alexandre-dumas/

Peter

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That's a classic of course, Peter!

Thanks for your suggestion on the women's suffrage. Funny how quickly times can change.