Paul Heyse

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (March 15, 1830 – April 2, 1914) is a distinguished German writer and translator.

A member of two important literary societies, the Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich, he writes novels, poetry, one hundred and seventy-seven short stories, and about sixty dramas.

The sum of Heyse's many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters.

He is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910 "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories."

Wirsen, one of the Nobel judges, said that "Germany has not had a greater literary genius since Goethe."

Heyse is the fifth oldest laureate in literature, after Sully Prudhomme, Theodor Mommsen, Alice Munro and Jaroslav Seifert.

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