nobel prize for literature

     

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Sweish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency" (original Swedish: den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning). The "work" in this case refers to an author's work as a whole, though individual works are sometimes also cited. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year and announces the name of the chosen laureate in early October.

Trivia about nobel prize for literature

  • For his books on the Cossacks of the Don River Mikhail Sholokhov won this top prize in 1965
  • On Dec. 10, 1957 Albert Camus received this prize in Stockholm, Sweden
  • In 1901, French poet Sully Prudhomme became the first recipient of this
  • Lewis was the 1st American to win this award; he received it 4 years after turning down a Pulitzer
  • In 1968 Yasunari Kawabata became the first Japanese author to win this
  • Shaw said he took the prize money from this award in 1925 to translate Swedish plays into English
  • In 1986 Wole Soyinka made headlines as the first black recipient of this

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