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1. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature 1913) wrote in Bengali and English, Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize in Literature 1969) wrote in French and English and Joseph Brodsky (Nobel Prize in Literature 1987) wrote poetry in Russian and prose in English.
The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded, according to the will of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the field of literature.
YearNameCountry*Literary Area2023Norwaynovelist, playwright, poet2022Francenovelist, memoirist2021Tanz.novelist2020U.S.poet- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Sep 28, 2019 · Swedish writer Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858 –1940) turned away from literary realism and wrote in a romantic and imaginative manner, vividly evoking the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden. Lagerlöf, the first woman to receive the honor, was awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature "in appreciation of the lofty idealism ...
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1995. S EAMUS H EANEY for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past. 1994. K ENZABURO O E who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic ...
- Outstanding contributions in literature
- 2023
- 1901
- Swedish Academy
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 will be announced on Thursday 10 October, 13:00 CEST at the earliest. “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.
On nobelprize.org, you can find excerpts from many of the literature laureates’ literary works such as Olga Tokarczuk’s book Flights, Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude and Wisława Szymborska’s poem ‘The Three Oddest Words’.Enjoy some excerpts from books or poems written by literature laureates.
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