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Leo Tolstoy, one of the most widely read writers who never won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors which, according to the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the benefactor of the prize, has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".
Nobel Prize in Literature. · 1933 →. The 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British author John Galsworthy (1867–1933) "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga ". [1] When Galworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, only the second English author to receive the award ...
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Romanian-German author Herta Müller (born 1953) "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed." [1] She is the ninth German-language writer to become a recipient of the prize after Günter Grass in 1999.
The 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts." [1]
The 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Danish author Johannes V. Jensen "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style." [1] He is the fourth Danish recipient of the literary prize.
September 13 – Centenary of the birth of Roald Dahl, Welsh-born children's author. September 17 – Centenary of the birth of Mary Stewart (Mary Rainbow), English romantic suspense novelist. September 28 – Fiftieth anniversary of the death of André Breton, French poet, essayist and theorist; the leading exponent of Surrealism in literature.
The 1941 Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded due to the ongoing World War II that started in September 1, 1939. [1] Instead, the prize money was allocated with 1/3 to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. [2] This was the fifth occasion in Nobel history that the prize was not conferred.
