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Nobel Prize Winners in Literature (1901-2012)

The document lists various Nobel Prize winners in literature from 1901-2012 and provides brief descriptions of their work. It recognizes winners from the United States and United Kingdom for their novels, plays, poetry, and biographies. Descriptions note their original concepts, humor, observations of life, championing of humanitarian ideals, narrative mastery, and contributions to their respective genres and contemporary styles. Later winners are praised for their realistic and imaginative writings addressing modern destitution, subtle cultural analyses, lyrical beauty, and portrayals of suppressed histories.

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Nobel Prize Winners in Literature (1901-2012)

The document lists various Nobel Prize winners in literature from 1901-2012 and provides brief descriptions of their work. It recognizes winners from the United States and United Kingdom for their novels, plays, poetry, and biographies. Descriptions note their original concepts, humor, observations of life, championing of humanitarian ideals, narrative mastery, and contributions to their respective genres and contemporary styles. Later winners are praised for their realistic and imaginative writings addressing modern destitution, subtle cultural analyses, lyrical beauty, and portrayals of suppressed histories.

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Nobel Prizes (1901-2012)


United States
Novelist:Graphic art of description, ability to create, humor, new types of characters.

United Kingdom RudyardKipling (1907) W. B. Yeats (1923)


Power of observation, originality, talent for narration.

Sinclair Lewis (1930) 1930 Eugene O'Neill (1936) 1930

Playwright: Dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy.

Inspired poetry, gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.

Biographer and novelist: descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.

Pearl S. Buck (1938)

George Bernard Shaw (1925) John Galsworthy (1932) Bertrand Russell (1950)

Considered the most significant British dramatist since Shakespeare his work is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire with a singular poetic beauty.

Poet and playwright: pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.

T. S. Eliot (1948) 1930 William Faulkne (1949) 1930

Art of narration as in the Forsyte Saga.

Novelist: powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.

Varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.

Novelist: mastery of the art of narrative, influence on contemporary style.

Ernest Hemingway (1954) 1930 John Steinbeck (1962) 1930 SaulBellow (1976) 1930
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Winston Churchill (1953) Samuel Beckett (1969)

Mastery of historical and biographical description and oratory in defending exalted human values.

Novelist: realistic and imaginative writings, humor and keen social perception.

Writing - in new forms for novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation.

Novelist: human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture.

William Golding (1983) Seamus Heaney (1995) V. S. Naipaul (2001)

Realistic narrative art, diversity and universality of myth.

Novelist: wrote in Yiddish impassioned narrative art,PolishJewish cultural tradition, brings universalhuman conditions to life.

Work of lyrical beauty and ethical depth in everyday miracles and the living past.

(1978)
Perceptive narrative and scrutiny in works with presence of suppressed histories.

Novelist: force and poetic import, giving life to an essential aspect of American reality.

Toni Morrison (1993)

Harold Pinter (2005) Doris Lessing (2007)

His plays uncovers the precipice under everyday speakings and oppressions.

Camila Vidal Laura Muoz

Skepticism, visionary power. She is perhaps most famous for The Golden Notebook, a seminal work in feminist literature

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