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1966 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Glossary

The 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature was divided equally between Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970) "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people" and Nelly Sachs (1891–1970) "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength." It is one of four occasions (1904, 1917, and 1974) when the Nobel Prize in Literature has been shared between two individuals.^[1]

144 relations: Alberto Moravia, Alejo Carpentier, Alexandre Arnoux, Alistair Campbell (academic), Anders Österling, André Malraux, Andrés Iduarte, Anna Akhmatova, Archibald Tucker, Arnold Wesker, Arnold Zweig, Arnulf Øverland, Arthur John Arberry, C. S. Forester, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Carlo Levi, Cleanth Brooks, Cordwainer Smith, D. T. Suzuki, Delmore Schwartz, Dimitar Dimov, E. M. Forster, Edmund Wilson, Eric Bentley, Erich Kästner, Ernst Jünger, Eugenio Florit, Eugenio Montale, Eyvind Johnson, Ezra Pound, Flann O'Brien, Frank O'Connor, Frank O'Hara, Günter Grass, Geoffrey Tillotson, Gerardo Diego, Graham Greene, Gustave Thibon, Gyula Illyés, Hans Christian Branner, Hans Robert Jauss, Harry Martinson, Hebrew literature, Heinrich Böll, Helga Eng, Henri Bosco, Henri Peyre, Henry de Montherlant, Henry Muller (writer), Henry Olsson, ... Expand index (94 more) »
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Alberto Moravia

Alberto Pincherle (28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist.

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Alejo Carpentier

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period.

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Alexandre Arnoux

Alexandre Arnoux (27 February 1884, Digne-les-Bains - 4 January 1973, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French screenwriter and novelist.

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Alistair Campbell (academic)

Alistair Campbell (12 December 1907 – 5 February 1974) was a British academic who was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from October 1963 until his death.

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Anders Österling

Anders Österling (13 April 1884 – 13 December 1981) was a Swedish poet, critic and translator.

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André Malraux

Georges André Malraux (3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs.

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Andrés Iduarte

Andrés Iduarte Foucher (May 1, 1907 – April 16, 1984) was a distinguished Mexican essayist and member of the Mexican Academy of Language.

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Anna Akhmatova

Anna Andreyevna Gorenkoa; Ánna Andríyivna Horénko,.

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Archibald Tucker

Archibald Norman Tucker (1904 – 1980) was a Cape Colony-born linguist specializing in Bantu languages.

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Arnold Wesker

Sir Arnold Wesker (24 May 1932 – 12 April 2016) was an English dramatist.

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Arnold Zweig

Arnold Zweig (10 November 1887 – 26 November 1968) was a German Jewish writer, pacifist and socialist.

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Arnulf Øverland

Ole Peter Arnulf Øverland (27 April 1889 – 25 March 1968) was a Norwegian poet and artist.

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Arthur John Arberry

Arthur John Arberry (12 May 1905, in Portsmouth – 2 October 1969, in Cambridge) FBA was a British scholar of Arabic literature, Persian studies, and Islamic studies.

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C. S. Forester

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C.

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Carlo Emilio Gadda

Carlo Emilio Gadda (14 November 1893 – 21 May 1973) was an Italian writer and poet.

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Carlo Levi

Carlo Levi (29 November 1902 – 4 January 1975) was an Italian painter, writer, activist, independent leftist politician, and doctor.

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Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks (October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994) was an American literary critic and professor.

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Cordwainer Smith

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966), better known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author known for his science fiction works.

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D. T. Suzuki

, self-rendered in 1894 as "Daisetz", was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, translator, and writer.

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Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.

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Dimitar Dimov

Dimitar Todorov Dimov (Димитър Тодоров Димов, 25 June 1909 – 1 April 1966) was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist and veterinary surgeon.

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E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author.

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Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist.

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Eric Bentley

Eric Russell Bentley (September 14, 1916 – August 5, 2020) was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator.

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Erich Kästner

Emil Erich Kästner (23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap.

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Ernst Jünger

Ernst Jünger (29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel.

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Eugenio Florit

Eugenio Florit y Sánchez de Fuentes (October 15, 1903 - June 22, 1999) was a Cuban writer, essayist, literary critic, translator, radio actor and diplomat.

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Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale (12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the finest literary figures of the 20th century.

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Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.

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Flann O'Brien

Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 19111 April 1966), his pen name being Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature.

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Frank O'Connor

Frank O'Connor (born Michael Francis O'Donovan; 17 September 1903 – 10 March 1966) was an Irish author and translator.

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Frank O'Hara

Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic.

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Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Geoffrey Tillotson

Geoffrey Tillotson, FBA (30 June 1905 – 15 October 1969) was an English literary scholar and academic.

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Gerardo Diego

Gerardo Diego Cendoya (October 3, 1896 – July 8, 1987) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.

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Gustave Thibon

Gustave Thibon (2 September 1903 – 19 January 2001) was a French philosopher.

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Gyula Illyés

Gyula Illyés born Gyula Illés (2 November 1902 – 15 April 1983) was a Hungarian poet and novelist.

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Hans Christian Branner

Hans Christian Branner (23 June 1903 – 24 April 1966) was a Danish novelist, essayist and playwright.

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Hans Robert Jauss

Hans Robert Jauss (Jauß; 12 December 1921 – 1 March 1997) was a German academic, notable for his work in reception theory (especially his concept of horizon of expectation) and medieval and modern French literature.

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Harry Martinson

Harry Martinson (6May 190411February 1978) was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor.

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Hebrew literature

Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language.

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Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Theodor Böll (21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer.

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Helga Eng

Helga Kristine Eng (31 May 1875 – 26 May 1966) was a Norwegian psychologist and educationalist.

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Henri Bosco

Henri Bosco (16 November 1888 – 4 May 1976) was a French writer.

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Henri Peyre

Henri Maurice Peyre (21 February 1901 – 9 December 1988) was a French-born American linguist, literary scholar and Sterling Professor of French Emeritus at Yale University.

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Henry de Montherlant

Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist.

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Henry Muller (writer)

Henry Muller (21 August 1902, Muhlbach-sur-Bruche (Bas-Rhin) – 15 November 1980, Paris) was a French writer, journalist and book publisher.

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Henry Olsson

Karl Henry Olsson (18 April 1896 – 11 January 1985) was a Swedish literary scholar.

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Henry Treece

Henry Treece (22 December 1911 – 10 June 1966) was a British poet and writer who also worked as a teacher and editor.

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Horace L. Friess

Horace L. Friess (March 4, 1900 – October 12, 1975) was an American ethicist.

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Hossein Ghods-Nakhai

Hossein Ghods-Nakhaï (حسین قدس نخعی&lrm;; GCVO 1894–1977) was an Iranian politician, cabinet minister, diplomat, and poet.

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J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator.

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Jack A. W. Bennett

Jack Arthur Walter Bennett (28 February 1911 – 29 January 1981) was a New Zealand–born literary scholar.

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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Jarosław Leon Iwaszkiewicz (also known under his literary pseudonym Eleuter; 20 February 1894 – 2 March 1980), was a Polish writer, poet, essayist, dramatist and translator.

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Jean Anouilh

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades.

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Jean Galtier-Boissière

Jean Galtier-Boissière (26 December 1891, Paris – 22 January 1966, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a writer, polemist, and journalist from Paris, France.

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Jean Gaulmier

Jean Gaulmier (10 March 1905, Charenton-du-Cher11 November 1997, Paris) was a French orientalist who befriended Zaki al-Arsuzi, one of the principal founders of Ba'athism.

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Jean Giono

Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.

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Johan Borgen

Johan Collett Müller Borgen (28 April 1902 – 16 October 1979) was a Norwegian writer, journalist and critic.

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Johannes Edfelt

Bo Johannes Edfelt (21 December 1904 – 27 August 1997) was a Swedish writer, poet, translator and literary critic.

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John Herman Randall Jr.

John Herman Randall Jr. (February 14, 1899 – December 1, 1980) was an American philosopher, New Thought author, and educator.

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Jorge Guillén

Jorge Guillén Álvarez (18 January 18936 February 1984) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, a university teacher, a scholar and a literary critic.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.

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José María Pemán

José María Pemán y Pemartín (8 May 1897 in Cadiz – 19 July 1981, Ibid.) was a Spanish journalist, poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and monarchist intellectual.

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Juan Marichal (historian)

Juan Marichal (2 February 1922 – 9 August 2010) was a Spanish-Canarian historian, literary critic and essayist.

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Jules Romains

Jules Romains (born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule; 26 August 1885 – 14 August 1972) was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement.

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Junzaburō Nishiwaki

was a contemporary Japanese poet and literary critic, active in Shōwa period Japan, specializing in modernism, Dadaism and surrealism.

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Karl Ragnar Gierow

Karl Ragnar Knut Gierow (2 April 190430 October 1982) was a Swedish theater director, author and translator.

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Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet and political activist.

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Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880 – January 18, 1966) was an American novelist and newspaper columnist.

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Konstantin Paustovsky

Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky (Константи́н Гео́ргиевич Паусто́вский,; – 14 July 1968) was a Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.

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Kristian Smidt

Kristian Smidt, OBE (20 November 1916 – 9 August 2013) was a Norwegian literary historian.

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L. P. Hartley

Leslie Poles Hartley (30 December 1895 – 13 December 1972) was an English novelist and short story writer.

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Lao She

Shu Qingchun (3 February 189924 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese novelist and dramatist.

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Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.

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Leon Samuel Roudiez

Leon Samuel Roudiez (1917-2004) was an American literary scholar and professor emeritus and former head of the French department at Columbia University.

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Lionel Trilling

Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher.

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Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon (3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France.

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Manfred Mayrhofer

Manfred Mayrhofer (26 September 1926 – 31 October 2011) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist who specialized in Indo-Iranian languages.

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Marcel Jouhandeau

Marcel Jouhandeau (26 July 18887 April 1979) was a French writer.

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Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Paul Pagnol (also;; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker.

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Margery Allingham

Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.

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Maria Bellonci

Maria Villavecchia Bellonci (30 November 1902 – 13 May 1986) was an Italian writer, historian and journalist, known especially for her biography of Lucrezia Borgia.

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Mario Pei

Mario Andrew Pei (February 16, 1901March 2, 1978) was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers without a professional background in linguistics.

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Marja-Liisa Vartio

Marja-Liisa Orvokki Vartio (née Sairanen, 1955-1966 Haavikko; 11 September 1924 Sääminki, Finland – 17 June 1966 Savonlinna, Finland) was a Finnish poet and prose writer.

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Max Frisch

Max Rudolf Frisch (15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist.

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Miguel Ángel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist.

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Miguel Torga

Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha (São Martinho de Anta, Sabrosa, Vila Real district, 12 August 1907 – Coimbra, 17 January 1995), is considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century.

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Mika Waltari

Mika Toimi Waltari (19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen).

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Mina Loy

Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian.

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Miroslav Krleža

Miroslav Krleža (7 July 1893 – 29 December 1981) was a Yugoslav and Croatian writer who is widely considered to be the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century.

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Morton W. Bloomfield

Morton W. Bloomfield (May 19, 1913 – April 14, 1987) was an American medievalist.

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Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs (10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German–Swedish poet and playwright.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Norman Holmes Pearson

Norman Holmes Pearson (April 13, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American academic at Yale University, and a prominent counterintelligence agent during World War II.

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The Norwegian Authors' Union (Den norske Forfatterforening, DnF) is an association of Norwegian authors.

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Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda (born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 190423 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Paul Bénichou

Paul Bénichou (19 September 1908 – 14 May 2001) was a French/Algerian writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian.

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Paul Celan

Paul Celan, born Paul Antschel, (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born French poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator.

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Pierre Emmanuel

Noël Mathieu (3 May 1916, Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques – 22 September 1984, Paris) better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration.

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Pierre-Henri Simon

Pierre-Henri Simon (16 January 1903, Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde – 20 September 1972) was a French intellectual, literary historian, essayist, novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Pietro Ubaldi

Pietro Ubaldi (August 18, 1886 in Foligno, Italy – February 29, 1972 in São Vicente, Brazil) was an Italian author, teacher and philosopher.

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Ramón Menéndez Pidal

Ramón Menéndez Pidal (13 March 1869 – 14 November 1968) was a Spanish philologist and historian.

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Rómulo Gallegos

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 5 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician.

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René Char

René Émile Char (14 June 1907 – 19 February 1988) was a French poet and member of the French Resistance.

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René Wellek

René Wellek (August 22, 1903 – November 10, 1995) was a Czech-American comparative literary critic.

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Robert Graves

Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.

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Roman Jakobson

Roman Osipovich Jakobson (Рома́н О́сипович Якобсо́н,; 18 July 1982) was a Russian-American linguist and literary theorist.

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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands.

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Royal Spanish Academy

The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.

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Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (שמואל יוסף עגנון; August 8, 1887 – February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer.

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Siegbert Salomon Prawer

Siegbert Salomon Prawer (15 February 1925 – 5 April 2012) was Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

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Sigmund Skard

Sigmund Skard (31 July 1903 – 26 May 1995) was a Norwegian poet, essayist and professor of American literature.

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Simon Vestdijk

Simon Vestdijk (17 October 1898 – 23 March 1971) was a Dutch writer.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Swedish Academy

The Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.

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Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 – 15 March 1970) was a Norwegian poet and novelist.

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The Bridal Canopy

The Bridal Canopy (הכנסת כלה, Hakhnasat Kallah), a novel by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, is considered to be one of the first classics of modern Hebrew literature.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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Thierry Maulnier

Thierry Maulnier (born Jacques Talagrand; 1 October 1909, Alès – 9 January 1988, Marnes-la-Coquette) was a French journalist, essayist, dramatist, and literary critic.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Vilhelm Moberg

Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg (20 August 1898 – 8 August 1973) was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Владимир Владимирович Набоков; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet.

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Walter Arthur Berendsohn

Walter Arthur Berendsohn (10 September 1884, in Hamburg – 30 January 1984, in Stockholm) was a German literary scholar.

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Werner Betz

Werner August Josef Betz (1 September 1912 – 13 July 1980) was a German philologist who was Chair of German and Nordic Philology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

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William York Tindall

William York Tindall (1903–1981) was an American Joycean scholar with a long and distinguished teaching career at Columbia University.

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Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright.

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Yasunari Kawabata

was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award.

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Yiorgos Theotokas

Yiorgos Theotokas (Γιώργος Θεοτοκάς), formally Georgios Theotokas (Γεώργιος Θεοτοκάς; 27 August 1905 – 30 October 1966), was a Greek novelist.

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1904 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature was the fourth literary prize resulting from Alfred Nobel's will. 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature are nobel Prize in Literature by year.

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1917 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature was equally divided between the Danish authors Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857–1919) "for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals," and Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943) "for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." It is the second of four occasions when the Nobel Prize in Literature has been shared between two individuals. 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature are nobel Prize in Literature by year.

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1965 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Russian novelist Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984) "for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people." nobelprize.org He is the third Russian-speaking author to become the prize's recipient. 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature are nobel Prize in Literature by year.

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1967 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974) "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America." He is the first Guatemalan and the second Latin American author to receive the prize after the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral won in 1945. 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature are nobel Prize in Literature by year.

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1968 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind." He is the first Japanese recipient of the prize. 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature are nobel Prize in Literature by year.

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1969 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Irish author Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation.". 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature are nobel Prize in Literature by year.

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1971 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chilean politician and poet Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams." Neruda became the second Chilean Nobel laureate in Literature after Gabriela Mistral in 1945. 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature are nobel Prize in Literature by year.

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1972 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German author Heinrich Böll (1917–1985) "for his writing which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature." Böll is the fifth German author to be recipient of the prize. 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature are nobel Prize in Literature by year.

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1974 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded jointly to Swedish authors Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) "for a narrative art, farseeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom" and Harry Martinson (1904–1978) "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos." The winners were announced in October 1974 by Karl Ragnar Gierow, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, and later sparked heavy criticisms from the literary world. 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature are nobel Prize in Literature by year.

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1999 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German writer Günter Grass (1927–2015) "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history." He is the eighth German author to become a recipient of the prize after Heinrich Böll in 1972. 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature are nobel Prize in Literature by year.

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