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A comprehensive list of Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive. Nobel Prize in Literature Winners 2022-1901 ( also available in alphabetical arrangement )

Nov 13, 2009 · On November 4, 1948, T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, for his profound effect on the direction of modern poetry. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a …

The Nobel Prize in Literature is an annual award presented by the Swedish Academy to a person in the literary field who has "produced the most outstanding work in an ideal direction." It is …

Nov 13, 2009 · Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, which he declines. In his novels, essays, and plays, Sartre advanced the philosophy of existentialism, arguing that …

Jan 5, 2025 · Are you looking for an alphabetical list of Nobel Prize Winners in Literature that you can easily copy or download in popular formats like PDF, CSV, XML, JSON, and more?

Nov 13, 2009 · On October 8, 1970, one of Russia’s best-known contemporary writers, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. A leading writer and critic of Soviet …

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 117 times to 121 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2024. Click on the links to get more information. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 …

Jan 22, 2025 · The timeline below highlights important dates related to this topic and a section of this guide provides some suggested search strategies for further research in the collection. ...

Alfred Nobel was the founder of the Nobel Prize. He invented dynamite, and it was his goal later in life to award monumental discoveries. This is a timeline of his life.

Nov 13, 2009 · On October 5, 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. Singer wrote in Yiddish about Jewish life in Poland and the United States, and translations of …

May 28, 2023 · It's that time of year again, when we share some thoughts on writers who may win this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, and along the way we get to talk about new writers to read.

Oct 10, 2024 · Nobel Literature Prize: The past 20 winners Bob Dylan, Svetlana Alexievich, Annie Ernaux and now Han Kang. Here's a look back at the last 20 laureates of the prestigious …

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"

Nov 24, 2009 · The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace on December 10, 1901. The ceremony came on the …

The 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Swiss poet Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring." [1] Spitteler received his prize the following …

Nov 13, 2009 · On October 23, 1958, Boris Pasternak is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for Doctor Zhivago, his romantic novel set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. The …

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang (born 1970) "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of …

The 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American author John Steinbeck (1902–1968) ... In 2012 (50 years later), the Nobel Prize opened its archives and it was …

The 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Canadian-American novelist Saul Bellow (1915–2005) "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that …