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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 ...
The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. [4] As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals. [5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize.
William Faulkner is widely considered the greatest writer of Southern literature, and one of the most esteemed writers of American literature. William Faulkner (1897—1962) [1] was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.
The Nobel Prize. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to a total of 965 individuals and 27 organizations as of 2023. [1] The United States has the highest number of Nobel laureates in the world, with over 420 Nobel laureates. [2] Around 71% of all Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Americans; around 29% of them are immigrants from other ...
Alberto Gerchunoff, Argentine writer (born 1883) Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and politician (born 1879) May 6 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Laureate (born 1862) May 21 – Klaus Mann, German-born American novelist (overdose, born 1906) June 10 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author and Nobel Laureate (born 1882) [20]
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing ...
As his contemporary William Faulkner said of such writers in his Nobel Prize address of 1949, "He writes not of the heart but of the glands." In 1949, O'Hara left The New Yorker bitterly, after it published a withering review of O'Hara's long novel A Rage to Live by his colleague Brendan Gill. [17]