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The 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to British-American poet Thomas Stearns Eliot (pen name, T. S. Eliot) (1888–1965) "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." [ 1 ] Eliot is the fourth British (born in the United States) recipient of the prize after John Galsworthy in 1932.
[5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of ...
Newbery Medal for children's literature: William Pene du Bois, The Twenty-One Balloons; Nobel Prize in Literature: Thomas Stearns Eliot; Premio Nadal: Sebastián Juan Arbó, Sobre las piedras grises; Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James A. Michener – Tales of the South Pacific
Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of ...
The Chinese government forbade Liu Xiaobo from accepting his Nobel Prize (Peace, 2010) [9] and the government of the Soviet Union pressured Boris Pasternak (Literature, 1958) to decline his award. Liu Xiaobo, Carl von Ossietzky and Aung San Suu Kyi were all awarded their Nobel Prize while in prison or detention. [10]
Many widely read writers, like Leo Tolstoy, have never won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors which, according to the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the benefactor of the prize, has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction". [1]
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1948 Nobel Prize in Literature; P. 1948 Pulitzer Prize This page was last edited on 13 September 2020, at 02:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...