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John Galsworthy OM ( / ˈɡɔːlzwɜːrði /; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga, and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature .
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John Galsworthy (born Aug. 14, 1867, Kingston Hill, Surrey, Eng.—died Jan. 31, 1933, Grove Lodge, Hampstead) was an English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
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Learn about the life and works of John Galsworthy, the British novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 for his series of novels The Forsyte Saga. Find out how he wrote about social issues, war, and the upper classes, and how he reacted to the First World War and the First World War.
Learn about the life and legacy of John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and playwright who chronicled the class system and social transformation of Edwardian society. Explore his early education, career, personal life, advocacy, and cultural impact on British heritage.
John Galsworthy OM ( / ˈɡɔːlzwɜːrði /; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga, and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.
John Galsworthy, (born Aug. 14, 1867, Kingston Hill, Surrey, Eng.—died Jan. 31, 1933, Grove Lodge, Hampstead), English novelist and playwright. Galsworthy gave up a law career to become a writer, and many of his works have legal themes. He published several works before The Man of Property (1906), the first novel of The Forsyte Saga ...
Literary career of English novelist and playwright John Galsworthy, who used John Sinjohn as a pseudonym, spanned the Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras. In addition to his prolific literary status, Galsworthy was also a renowned social activist. He was an outspoken advocate for the women's suffrage movement, prison reform and animal rights.
