Nobel Prize in Literature
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The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency". The "work" in this case generally refers to an author's work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes cited in the awards. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year.
List of Nobel Prize laureates in Literature from 1901 to the present day.
Notes
- The women who have received the Nobel Prize for Literature are Selma Lagerlöf, Grazia Deledda, Sigrid Undset, Pearl S. Buck, Gabriela Mistral, Nelly Sachs, Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, Wisława Szymborska and Elfriede Jelinek. The other recipients are men.
- The Nobel Prize is not the sole measure of literary excellence and lasting worth. The following people, for instance, were not awarded the Nobel Prize despite being eligible: Anna Akhmatova, Jorge Amado, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Paul Celan, René Char, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, Julio Cortázar, Jacques Derrida, Theodore Dreiser, Lion Feuchtwanger, Robert Frost, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Nikos Kazantzakis, Arthur Koestler, D.H. Lawrence, William Somerset Maugham, Sándor Márai, Arthur Miller, Alberto Moravia, Robert Musil, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Fernando Pessoa, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, J.D. Salinger, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Leo Tolstoy, Arnold Toynbee, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mark Twain, Franz Werfel, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams and Virginia Woolf.
See also
External links
- http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/index.html
- Nobel Prize Winners in Literature (http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature)
- The Nobel Prize (http://www.nobel-prize.org/)
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