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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953. Born: 30 November 1874, Woodstock, United Kingdom. Died: 24 January 1965, London, United Kingdom. Residence at the time of the award: United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in ...
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On 27 November 1895, the scientist and philanthropist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament. The largest share of his fortune funded a series of Nobel Prizes, starting in 1901. The Nobel Prize honors people worldwide for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and the promotion of peace. On 16 October 1953, Pr...
Churchill’s first contact with the Nobel Committee was in 1939, when he nominated Edvard Benešfor the Peace Prize. He held a strong affinity for Beneš (whom he nicknamed “Herr Beans”), deposed by Hitler after Munich. Almost exactly a decade later, the aging patriot would be deposed again, this time by Czech communists. Unsurprisingly, there was no ...
Koht did not explicitly nominate any of the seven. He finally nominated Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State under Roosevelt from 1933 to 1944. Koht noted Hull’s improving of relations with Latin America, reducing barriers to international trade and role in founding the United Nations. Hull duly was the winner. Churchill’s prevailing reputation as...
According to Kjell Strömberg of the Swedish Academy, the first report on Churchill’s Literature nomination was in 1946. The Academy’s aged Per Hallström found “no literary merit whatever” in Churchill’s novel Savrola, and dismissed his autobiography My Early Life and memoir, The World Crisis. Only Marlborough, Hallström wrote, was a qualifying work...
The Swedish Academy recognized a long and brilliant literary career that had begun in 1895. Despite Churchill’s disappointment in not winning the Peace Prize, he thanked them humbly. “I hope you have not been biased in any way in your judgment of my literary qualities,” he told Ambassador Hägglöf. “But at any rate I am very proud indeed to receive ...
In Stockholm, December 10th, the day of the ceremony, dawned in pouring rain. Inside the Stockholm Concert Hall, bright lights shined on a joyfully dressed audience. King Gustaf VI Adolf arrived, with the Queen and two princesses. The King awarded each Nobel Laureate his Prize. They included Frits Zernike (Physics), Herman Staudinger (Chemistry); a...
1 Anthony Montague Browne, Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Last Private Secretary(London: Indigo, 1996), 133. 2 James W. Muller, ed., Churchill As Peacemaker(Cambridge University Press, 1997), 26-28, 187. 3 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Database, accessed 11 November 2017. 4 “28 Are Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Including Truman, Chur...
The 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965) "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."
Oct 17, 2008 · In 1953, Churchill not only received the Nobel Prize, but also, at the time of the Queen’s coronation, was awarded knighthood in the Order of the Garter. Competition for the Nobel Prize that year was not particularly fierce.
In recognition of his "mastery of historical and biographical description" and oratorial output, Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
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