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May 20, 2024 · As of 2023, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of Nobel laureates.
May 19, 2024 · Nobel's heirs, however, fought the provisions of the will and it took five years for the first awards to be presented. Through 2023, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 116 times to 120 laureates. With this list, discover the writers who've lived up to Nobel's ideals from 1901 to the present.
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6 days ago · May 14, 2024, 3:02 PM ET (AP) Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92. Nobel Prize, any of the prizes (five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel.
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May 10, 2024 · Olga Tokarczuk (born January 29, 1962, Sulechów, Poland) is a Polish writer known for her wry and complex novels that leap between centuries, places, perspectives, and mythologies. She received the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature (awarded belatedly in 2019), lauded for her “narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the ...
May 9, 2024 · William Golding (1911–93) was an English novelist who in 1983 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his parables of the human condition. He attracted a cult of followers, especially among the youth of the post-World War II generation. He is perhaps best known for his 1954 novel Lord of the Flies.
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May 15, 2024 · 1. Pearl S. Buck At Home / Schafer/GettyImages. The 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature went to The Good Earth author “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China...
6 days ago · Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for giving ‘voice to the unsayable’. Alexander Howard, University of Sydney. For Jon Fosse, the fourth Norwegian to win the 2023 Nobel...
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