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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Buchan, Montrose; Newbery Medal for children's literature: Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon; Nobel Prize for Literature: Sigrid Undset; Prix Goncourt: Maurice Constantin-Weyer, Un Homme se penche sur son passé [81] Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude
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Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend. It is arguably one of her most popular novels, a history of English literature in satiric form.
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The 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Danish-born Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She is the third female recipient of the literature prize.
He was born as William Trevor Cox in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland, to a middle-class, Anglo-Irish Protestant (Church of Ireland) family.He moved several times to other provincial locations, including Skibbereen, Tipperary, [clarification needed] Youghal and Enniscorthy, as a result of his father's work as a bank official.
She and her family moved to Norway when she was two. She grew up in the Norwegian capital, Oslo (or Kristiania, as it was known until 1925). When she was only 11 years old, her father, the Norwegian archaeologist Ingvald Martin Undset (1853–1893), died at the age of 40 after a long illness.
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1928 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth. 5 February – David McKee Wright, poet (born 1869) [33]