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  1. Jun 28, 2011 · Just beginning to read serious literature in the 1960s, I wondered – with some self-assured disgruntlement – why Winston Churchill had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Was he not a politician, an orator, a writer (fast) of immense histories? He never wrote a novel or a short story or a poem.

  2. January 1, 1970. Churchill’s life-long commitment to and mastery of the written and spoken word was recognised when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. He was in Bermuda when the prizes were presented by the King of Sweden in Stockholm – there was no question over which event took precedence – and Clementine accepted ...

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  4. Jan 4, 2018 · The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College > Articles > Explore > The Literary Churchill > Winston Churchill and the Nobel Prizes, 1946-1953 > NobelPrize.

  5. Oct 17, 2008 · Lady Churchill—The Swedish Academy expresses its joy at your presence and asks you to convey to Sir Winston a greeting of deep respect. A literary prize is intended to cast luster over the author, but here it is the author who gives luster to the prize. I ask you now to accept, on behalf of your husband, the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature ...

  6. 1953 Nobel Laureate in Literature. for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values. The Churchill Society of London (submitted by Drew B!)

  7. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 was awarded to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"

  8. Oct 17, 2008 · October 17, 2008. ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. Stockholm, Sweden, 1953. The Nobel Prize for literature is an honor for me alike unique and unexpected and I grieve that my duties have not allowed me to receive it myself here in Stockholm from the hands of His Majesty your beloved and justly respected Sovereign.

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