Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1919, announced November 11, 1920. Carl Spitteler, “in special appreciation of his epic, <I>Olympian Spring</I>”. Carl Spitteler: born 1845, Liestal, Switzerland. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).