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Nobel Prize in Literature winners (American authors)
Further information:Nobel Prize in Literature
1930:Sinclair Lewis(novelist): "for his vigorous and graphic art
of description and hisability to create, with wit and humor, new
types of characters."
1936:Eugene O'Neill(playwright) : "for the power, honesty and
deep-felt emotions ofhis dramatic works, which embody an original
concept of tragedy."
1938:Pearl S. Buck(biographer and novelist): "for her rich and
truly epic descriptionsof peasant life in China and for her
biographical masterpieces."
1948:T. S. Eliot(poet and playwright) "for his outstanding,
pioneer contribution topresent-day poetry."
1949:William Faulkner(novelist): "for his powerful and
artistically unique contributionto the modern American novel."
1954:Ernest Hemingway(novelist): "for his mastery of the art of
narrative, mostrecently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea,
and for the influence that he has
exerted on contemporary style" 1962:John Steinbeck(novelist):
"for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as
they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception."
1976:Saul Bellow(novelist): "for the human understanding and
subtle analysis ofcontemporary culture that are combined in his
work."
1978:Isaac Bashevis Singer(novelist, wrote in Yiddish "for his
impassioned narrativeart which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish
cultural tradition, brings universal human
conditions to life."
1993:Toni Morrison(novelist): "novels characterized by visionary
force and poeticimport," giving "life to an essential aspect of
American reality."
British Recipients of theNobel Prize in Literaturefrom the isles
include
Rudyard Kipling(1907): "in consideration of the power of
observation, originality of imagination,
virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which
characterize the creations of this world-
famous author."
,W. B. Yeats(1923): "for his always inspired poetry, which in a
highly artistic form gives expression
to the spirit of a whole nation."
,George Bernard Shaw(1925): British/Irish writer. This
Irish-born writer is considered the most
significant British dramatist since Shakespeare "for his work
which is marked by both idealism and
humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a
singular poetic beauty."
,John Galsworthy(1932 "for his distinguished art of narration
which takes its highest form in The
Forsyte Saga."
,Bertrand Russell(1950): "in recognition of his varied and
significant writings in which he
champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought."
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,Winston Churchill(1953): "for his mastery of historical and
biographical description as well as for
brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."
,Samuel Beckett(1969): "for his writing, which - in new forms
for the novel and drama - in the
destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
,William Golding(1983): "for his novels which, with the
perspicuity of realistic narrative art and
the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human
condition in the world of today."
,Seamus Heaney(1995): "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical
depth, which exalt everyday
miracles and the living past."
,V. S. Naipaul(2001): "for having united perceptive narrative
and incorruptible scrutiny in works
that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."
,Harold Pinter(2005): "who in his plays uncovers the precipice
under everyday prattle and forces
entry into oppression's closed rooms."
andDoris Lessing(2007): "skepticism, fire and visionary power."
She is perhaps most famous for
The Golden Notebook, a seminal work in feminist literature.
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