The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded this morning to an English playwright, Harold Pinter.
Winston Churchill also wrote books, so prolifically in fact that he received his Nobel Prize in literature.
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Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for Babbitt--the story of a small-minded Realtor in the 1920s.
According to the London bookies, the favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature this year was Bob Dylan.
Ernest Hemingway, who won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, struggled with depression and killed himself in 1961, just months before Mariel Hemingway was born.
Novelist Sinclair Lewis rose to fame in the 1920s (and won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature) by satirizing small-town small-mindedness, in Main Street and Babbitt.
Writers and artist colonies like Yaddo in upstate New York hope that peaceful natural surroundings and stimulating company will work magic, and they may have: Yaddo alumni have collectively won 61 Pulitzer Prizes, 56 National Book Awards and a Nobel Prize in literature.
Buck's most well-known novel, "The Good Earth, " won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and helped earn her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
Tipped as a potential Nobel prize winner for many years, Transtroemer is the eighth European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in the last 10 years.
Considered Italy's national poet, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906.
It was an impressive feat, given that Ms Morrison was hardly unknown: she won the Nobel prize for literature in 1993.
Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 and the citation said "in his plays he uncovers the precipice in everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms".
He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948, and is probably best known for The Waste Land, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats - which was later became Lloyd Webber's musical, Cats.
Coward corresponded with a wide range of 20th-century figures, including Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, the Queen Mother and Harold Pinter, a British playwright who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2005 and who was 30 years younger than Coward.
Coetzee, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in his 1999 novel, Disgrace.
The time has come for the vast majority of Israelis who aren't interested in the Nobel Prize for Literature or a sabbatical at Berkeley or the University of Trondheim to call a spade a spade.
Mr Pamuk had also been in the running for the Nobel prize for literature , which was won by Harold Pinter, a British playwright and critic of the war in Iraq.
Now many more leading Polish painters, musicians and writers, including Wislawa Szymborska, the poet who won the 1996 Nobel prize for literature, live as well as work in Poland.
The late William Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature is heading for auction at Sotheby's in June.
Sinclair Lewis, in 1930, became the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He did produce an acute monograph on the early technical work of Bertrand Russell, but this languished in obscurity: it appeared in a minor literary series for which it was commissioned, in apparent ignorance of the real nature of Russell's work, after Russell won the Nobel prize for literature.
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