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  2. 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

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    The 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the American author William Faulkner (1897–1962) "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel." [1] The prize was awarded the following year in October 1950. The Nobel Committee for Literature had decided that none of the nominations for 1949 met the ...

  3. William Faulkner - Wikipedia

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    When Faulkner visited Stockholm in December 1950 to receive the Nobel Prize, he met Else Jonsson (1912–1996), who was the widow of journalist Thorsten Jonsson (1910–1950). Jonsson, a reporter for Dagens Nyheter from 1943 to 1946, had interviewed Faulkner in 1946 and introduced his works to Swedish readers.

  4. Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with ...

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    It uses multiple non-linear narratives to tell the story of a prominent family’s ruin in the author’s native Mississippi, and would help lead to Faulkner’s Nobel Prize. And Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” joins his earlier “The Sun Also Rises” in the public domain. The partly autobiographical story of an ambulance driver ...

  5. William Faulkner bibliography - Wikipedia

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    William Faulkner (1897—1962) [1] was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County , a stand-in for his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi .

  6. The Sound and the Fury - Wikipedia

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    The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner.It employs several narrative styles, including stream of consciousness.Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner's fourth novel, and was not immediately successful.

  7. Absalom, Absalom! - Wikipedia

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    Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, ... helped Faulkner win the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 1949. [2] In 2009, ...

  8. Intruder in the Dust - Wikipedia

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    The film was shot in Faulkner's home town of Oxford, Mississippi. In 1950, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel." [1] The Nobel Prize was not specifically for his novel Intruder in the Dust but for the enduring contribution of his writing as a whole.

  9. 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

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    Following William Faulkner in 1949, ... Hemingway was a favourite to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 along with ... Award Ceremony speech ...