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Nobel prize in literature won by Bob Dylan â as it happened Nobel prize in literature won by Bob Dylan – as it happened. The American singer songwriter Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel prize for literature. Full story: Bob Dylan wins Nobel literature prize.
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Great authors who didnât win a Nobel Prize for unlikely reasons Reason: Widely regarded as the best poet of the 20th century,Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize four times,a record which he shares with Eugene O’Neill who did win the Nobel Prize in 1936.Frost was dismissed because of his “advanced age” in 1961– he was 86 at the time – with the jury deciding the American poet’s years were “a fundamental obstacle, which the committee regretfully found it necessary to state”.
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Nobel Prize controversies The 1974 prize was denied to Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov, and Saul Bellow in favor of a joint award for Swedish authors Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson —both Nobel judges and unknown outside their home country. Bellow won in 1976; neither Greene nor Nabokov took home the prize.
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- In 1935, Audrey Wurdemann became the youngest person to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, at age 24, for her collection Bright Ambush. Five Youngest Poets (Pulitzer) 1935: Aud … rey Wurdeman, 241932: George Dillon, 261929: Stephen Vincent Benet, 301947: Robert Lowell, 301923: Edna St. Vincent Millay, 31.
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- 14 Nobel Laureates were Heads of State or Government at the Time of the Award: 1  Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia. 2  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia. 3  Barack Obama, President of the U.S.A. 4  Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea. 5  Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel. 6  F. W. de Klerk, President of South Africa.
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Asian Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Le Duc Tho of Vietnam was the first person from Asia to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Central Press / Getty Images. Le Duc Tho (1911-1990) and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were awarded a joint 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Paris Peace Accords that ended US involvement in the Vietnam War.
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- James Merrill. James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1977) for Divine Comedies (1976).
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, (born Dec. 11, 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia—died Aug. 3, 2008, Troitse-Lykovo, near Moscow), Russian novelist and historian, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970.
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Robert Frost Biography Robert Lee Frost (26 March 1874 – 29 January 1963) was an American poet; winner of four Pulitzer Prizes.
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- Barack Obama joins three other US presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize. By Peter Grier October 9, 2009 President Obama delivers remarks from the Rose Garden on Friday after receiving word that he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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List of Nobel laureates in Literature The first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme of France. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years. In 1901, Prudhomme received 150,782 SEK, which is equivalent to 7,731,004 SEK in December 2007.
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Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining Boundaries of Literature The Nobel comes with a prize of 8 million Swedish kronor, or just over $900,000. The literature prize is given for a lifetime of writing rather than for a single work. “Today, everybody from Bruce Springsteen to U2 owes Bob a debt of gratitude,” President Obama said at the medal ceremony.
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Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature (CNN)The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.. The Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said Dylan, 75, is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition..
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The biggest Nobel Prize snubs: 6 great people who never won When the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, many thought the honor should have gone to Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani activist who had survived being shot in the head by the Taliban the year before for campaigning for female education.
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List of Nobel laureates in Literature List of Nobel laureates in Literature. Horace Engdahl, the former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announcing that Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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A List of Women With Nobel Peace Prizes Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent work for human rights and independence in Burma (Myanmar).
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Poet laureate The present laureate is Carol Ann Duffy, appointed in May 2009. The United Kingdom also has a Children's poet laureate. William Wordsworth was chosen as the poet laureate after the death of Robert Southey but since he was too old, he became the only laureate to write no official poetry.
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Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/March By the time of his death in 1984, Sir John Betjeman was a ‘national treasure’. His poetry was popular and accessible, and he was known not only as the Poet Laureate (between 1972 and 1984) but also as a distinctive and entertaining television and radio presenter.
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- American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, whose decadeslong career in music has pushed the boundaries of multiple genres, has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. That made him the first American to win the prize since 1993, when novelist Toni Morrison was honored by the...
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Obituary: Seamus Heaney Image caption Heaney's poetry was always accessible and approachable. Seamus Heaney was internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats. Like Yeats, he won the Nobel Prize for literature and, like Yeats, his reputation and influence spread far beyond literary circles. Born in Northern Ireland, he was a Catholic and nationalist who chose to live in the South.
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- Elie Wiesel. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Committee honored Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel with the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. Professor Wiesel, who has written more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, was present to receive the award in conjunction with the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremonies on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at The Benjamin and Marion Schuster Center for the Performing Arts in Dayton, Ohio.
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Eugene O'Neill awards and honors. Eugene O’Neill, in full Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (born Oct. 16, 1888, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 27, 1953, Boston, Mass.), foremost American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
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Odd facts about Nobel Prize winners People who refused the prize: • Le Duc Tho was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize with Henry Kissinger for their roles in brokering a Vietnam cease fire at the Paris Peace Accords. Citing the absence of actual peace in Vietnam, Tho declined to accept. • Jean Paul Sartre waved off the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. His explanation: It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner.
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- Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He won for his achievements in Literature. Tagore is a very skilled Indian poet. + 72 others found this useful.