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The 1938 Nobel Prize is one of the most criticized in the prize's history because Buck's later works generally were not considered to be of the literary standard of a Nobel laureate. [8] According to novelist Irving Wallace, he was told by Sven Hedin that Buck "scarcely bowled over the academy".
The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. [4] As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals. [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 ...
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: C. S. Forester, A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours; James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Newbery Medal for children's literature: Kate Seredy, The White Stag; Newdigate prize: Michael Thwaites; Nobel Prize in Literature: Pearl S. Buck
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
The 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy". The prize was awarded in 1937. [1] He is the second American to become a literature laureate after Sinclair Lewis in 1930.
1938 was a common year ... American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; ... Peruvian literature critic, television host and sexologist (d.
The multi-volume roman-fleuve Les Thibault influenced the Nobel Committee in awarding Du Gard the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature. It follows intricately the fortunes of two brothers, Antoine and Jacques Thibault, from their upbringing in a prosperous Catholic bourgeois family to the end of the First World War.
The 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Finnish writer Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) "for his deep understanding of his country’s peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature." [1] He is the first and the only Finnish recipient of the prize. [2]