Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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".
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 of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French ...
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
She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies ...
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 Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning for Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original Swedish: den som inom ...
Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. [361] Robert Ritchie Racey 3 May 1873 Québec City, Canada 15 September 1956 Paris, Ontario, Canada 1938
The Nobel literature prize goes to Norway's Jon Fosse, who once wrote a novel in a single sentence. DAVID KEYTON, MIKE CORDER and JILL LAWLESS. October 5, 2023 at 12:54 PM.