Date | 4 May – 27 July 1924 |
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Status | Olympic |
Location | Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris |
Participants | 32 from 10 countries |
In the literature category five medals were awarded, one gold and two silver and bronze medals each. The gold medal was won by French Géo-Charles for The Olympic Games. Géo-Charles was the pseudonym of Charles Guyot, who became best known as the Olympic Literary Man. He was also active in several sports activities.
The silver medals were awarded to British writer Dorothy Margaret Stuart and Danish author Josef Petersen. Stuart received it for Sword Songs. She joined The English Association in 1930 and was a member of the Executive Committee from 1937-61, Honorary Secretary of the Association from 1949-51, and edited the News-Letter from it’s inception in 1946 to 1961. She was known for her literary criticism and for several historical biographies. Petersen wrote mostly about ancient and medieval motifs and was well recognized for his knowledge of ancient cultures, but not from the contemporary literary criticism. He won all his Olympic art medals (1924, 1932 and 1948) with works on ancient Greek sports motifs, in 1924 for Euryale.
The bronze medals went to French Charles Anthoine Gonnet for Face to Face with Olympia’s God and Irish Oliver St. John Gogarty for Ode to the Tailteann Games. Gonnet also played rugby for the French national team from 1921-27. In 1924, he was a substitute for the French national team at the Paris Olympics, but did not play in any match. He was also an athlete, swimmer and boxer. Besides his writing Gogarty was a physician, sportsman, pilot and politician, and from 1922-36 served as a senator in the Irish Parliament.
Pos | Catalogue Number | Competitor | NOC | Translated Title | Original Title | Title in Olympic Report or Catalogue | |||
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1 | – | Géo-Charles | FRA | Olympic Games | Jeux Olympiques | Jeux Olympiques | Gold | 1 | |
=2 | – | Dorothy Margaret Stuart | GBR | Sword Songs | Sword Songs | Sword Songs | Silver | ||
=2 | – | Josef Petersen | DEN | Euryale | Euryale | Euryale (un tableau des premiers Jeux Olympiques) | Silver | ||
=3 | – | Charles Anthoine Gonnet | FRA | Face to Face with Olympia's God | Vers le Dieu d’Olympie | Vers le Dieu d’Olympie | Bronze | ||
=3 | – | Oliver St. John Gogarty | IRL | Ode to the Tailteann Games | Ode to the Tailteann Games | Ode pour les jeux de Tailteann | Bronze | ||
– | Brinsley MacNamara | IRL | The Glorious Uncertainty | The Glorious Uncertainty | The Glorious Uncertainty | ||||
– | Miami Belle Louis | USA | – | – | – | ||||
– | Patrick Chalmers | GBR | The Wise Men | The Wise Men | The Wise Men | ||||
– | Robert Graves | GBR | At the Games | At the Games | At the Games | ||||
– | Albert Laisant | FRA | Olympic Hymn | Sonnet Olympique | Sonnet Olympique | ||||
– | T.C. Murray | IRL | Birthright | Birthright | Birthright (pièce de théâtre) | ||||
– | T.C. Murray | IRL | Maurice Harte | Maurice Harte | Maurice Harte (pièce de théâtre) | ||||
– | Smart | SUI | Exuberant Youth in the Open Air | L’Exubérante jeunesse au grand air | L’Exubérante jeunesse au grand air | ||||
– | Klaus Suomela | FIN | Milo | Milo, Olympian sankari | Milon (drame en quatre actes) | ||||
– | A. Christory | FRA | To Sports | Aux Sports | Aux Sports | ||||
– | A. Godinat | FRA | To the Glory of Sports | A la Gloire des Sports | Poême "A la Gloire des Sports" | ||||
– | A. Schmitt | SUI | Nocturn - Improvisation of a Skier | Nocturno (Improvisation d’un Skieur) | Nocturno (Improvisation d’un Skieur) | ||||
– | Charles Williams | GBR | Ceremonial Ode | Ceremonial Ode | Cérémonial Ode | ||||
– | France Darget Savarit | FRA | Thermopyles | Termopyles | Termopyles | ||||
– | Gonzague de Reynold | SUI | Olympic Odes | Odes Olympiques | Odes Olympiques | ||||
– | Franz Servais | LUX | The Sports | Les Sports | Les Sports (fantaisie scientifique et sportive, en vers) | ||||
– | George Bamber | GBR | The Land Where the Rose is Grown | The Land Where the Rose is Grown | The Land Where the Rose is Grown | 2 | |||
– | George Bamber | GBR | O Vigila (now let the games begin) | O Vigila (now let the games begin) | O Vigila (now let the games begin) | 3 | |||
– | George Bamber | GBR | The Contest | The Contest | The Contest | ||||
– | George Bamber | GBR | Didot | Didot | Didot | ||||
– | H. Vincent | FRA | Ode Actual | Ode actuelle | Ode actuelle | ||||
– | Henry de Montherlant | FRA | The Paradise in the Shadow of the Swords | Le Paradis à l’ombre des Epées | Le Paradis à l’ombre des Epées | ||||
– | I. Couturier | USA | The Greek Maiden | The Greek Maiden | The Greek Maiden | ||||
– | Jacques Gazeau | FRA | Séraphita or the Mountains of Winter | Séraphita (ou la Montagne d’Hiver) | Séraphita (ou la Montagne d’Hiver) | ||||
– | J. Ryan | IRL | The New Master of the Clanwilliams | The New Master of the Clanwilliams | The New Master of the Clanwilliams | ||||
– | L. Alvar da Silva | BRA | – | – | – | ||||
– | L. A. Fernández | URU | Greeting to the Olympian | Salutation al Olimpionico | Salutation al Olimpionico | ||||
– | Lionel Montal | FRA | Arcamba | Arcamba (roman) | Arcamba (roman) | 4 | |||
– | Lionel Montal | FRA | On the summits | Sur les cimes (poême) | Sur les cimes (poême) | 5 | |||
– | Marcel Berger | FRA | Story of 15 Men | Histoire de quinze hommes | Histoire de quinze hommes | ||||
– | Peshoton Dubash | GBR | A Football Match | A Football Match | A Football Match | ||||
– | Suzanne Ardoin | FRA | Triumph of the Athlete | Le triomphe de I’athléte | Le triomphe de I’athléte |