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  1. 4 days ago · Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, took the honors in 1930 "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."

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  2. 4 days ago · Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life.

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  4. 3 days ago · Joseph Brodsky was a Russian-born American poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his important lyric and elegiac poems. Brodsky left school at age 15 and thereafter began to write poetry while working at a wide variety of jobs.

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  5. 1 day ago · Mario Vargas Llosa was one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the 20th century and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. He owes his worldwide recognition to Time of the Hero (La Ciudad y los perros,1962), The Green House (La Casa Verde,1965), Conversation in the Cathedral (Conversación en La Catedral, 1969), and The War of ...

  6. 2 days ago · Alice Munro was a Canadian short-story writer known for exquisitely drawn narratives that reveal the depth and complexities in the emotional lives of everyday people. She received the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.

  7. 5 days ago · In his elegant obituary of Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate who died this week in Port Hope, Ontario, Anthony DePalma writes that her stories “were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture...

  8. 2 days ago · Kadare was nominated for the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature (described as the "American Nobel") in the United States by Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassobova. He was selected as the 2020 laureate by the Prize's jury. [134]

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