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1921 : Anatole France

 

Anatole France

 

"in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament"

 

Born

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April 16, 1844

Place of birth

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Paris, France

Died

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October 12, 1924

Place of death

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Tours, France

Occupation

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Novelist

Nationality

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French

Notable award(s)

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1921

 

Biography:

Born into a modest peasant family of Anjou, his father, François-Noël Thibault, said Christmas-France, first under-legitimist officer, resigned after the Revolution of 1830. He held on the wharf Malaquais in Paris, a library (first library-France Thibault, then France) specializing in books and documents on the French Revolution, attended by many writers and scholars, as the brothers Goncourt. The name of Anatole France comes as his father. It is a diminutive of Francis. High in the library father, Anatole garda taste in books and scholarship, and an intimate knowledge of the revolutionary background of many of his novels and stories, including The gods are thirsty which is considered his masterpiece.

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1922 : Jacinto Benavente

 

 Jacinto Benavente  

 

"for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama"

 

Born

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August 12, 1866

Place of birth

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Madrid, Spain

Died

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July 14, 1954

Place of death

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Madrid, Spain

Occupation

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Writer

Nationality

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Spanish

Notable award(s)

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1922

 

Biography:

He was the son of notable pediatrician Mariano Benavente, which is usually tied to the interest shown by the children in his book Children (1917) and in their child plays.

He began law studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid, but in the death of his father (1885), left to devote himself to literature. For some time it was circus entrepreneur.

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1923 : William Butler Yeats

 

William Butler Yeats

 

"for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation"

 

Born

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June 13, 1865

Place of birth

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Dublin, Ireland

Died

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Jan 28, 1939

Place of death

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Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Occupation

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Writer

Nationality

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Ireland

Notable award(s)

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1923

 

Biography:

William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865 in Georgeville near Saymount Castle, Dublin (Ireland). Son of the painter John Butler Yeats and Susan Poyexfen Yeats, a Protestant Anglo-Irish family. His grandfather, also named William Butler Yeats, was rector of the Church of Ireland, while his father was a nationalist skeptical and atheist. The character of the young Yeats was a combination of both. The biographer Richard Ellmann writes about it: He chose a faith eccentric somewhere between the orthodox beliefs of his grandfather and the non-Orthodox disbelief of his father.

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1924 : Wladyslaw Reymont

 

Wladyslaw Reymont

 

"for his great national epic, The Peasants"

 

Born

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May 7, 1868

Place of birth

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Radomsko, Poland

Died

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December 5, 1925

Place of death

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Warsaw, Poland

Occupation

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Writer

Nationality

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Polish

Notable award(s)

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1924

 

Biography:

Reymont was born in the family organist. His father, Joseph REJMENT, lettered man, had musical education and Tuszyński parish duties, he was organist, and also ran a book marital status and correspondence pastor with the Russian authorities. Mother, Antonina from Kupczyńskich was obdarzona gift of a colorful narrative. She was the origin of gentility - drawn from the nobility zubożałej Krakow, in the mature writer stressed the fact that often. Parents want to be a priest. He refused to attend the school, often change jobs, residence, much traveled through Poland and Europe. In the period 1880-1884 profession krawieckiego studied in Warsaw, was czeladnikiem. During the period 1884-1887 he was an actor in groups of itinerant theater, then (1888-1893) through wires father found a job as a lineman for the Railways in Rogowie Warszawsko-Vienna. In 1893, he moved to Warsaw and now claimed the literary work. In 1900, Reymont has railway accident. Got to the hospital with two broken ribs, but a medical report was written, that the writer has 12 broken ribs and other injuries and the body does not know whether it will still capable of intellectual property. " Note sfałszował hospital Dr. John Roch areas. High compensation amounting to 38 500 rubles (the sum allowed for the purchase of a dozen buildings in Warsaw) helped him gain financial independence. He married Aurelia Szabłowską from the home Schatzschnejder on 15 July 1902 in Krakow, the wedding was held in the Carmelite Church on the sand. In 1920 he bought the property in the near Kołaczkowie September.

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1925 : George Bernard Shaw

 

George Bernard Shaw

 

"for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty"

 

Born

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July 26, 1856

Place of birth

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Dublin, Ireland

Died

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2 November 1950

Place of death

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Hertfordshire, England

Occupation

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Playwright, Critic, Political activist

Nationality

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Irish

Notable award(s)

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1925

 

Biography:

Shaw was born in Dublin, in a poor family and a Protestant. He was educated at Wesley College in Dublin, and emigrated to London in 1870, to begin her literary career. There, he wrote five novels that were rejected by publishers. He began writing a column critical of music in the Star newspaper. Meanwhile, he began to get involved in politics, and served as councilman in the district of St. Pancras from 1897. It was a remarkable socialist, a prominent member of the Fabian Society, which sought the transformation of society through non revolucionarios.El journalistic work exercised during its first years, included criticism from literary and artistic collaborations on songs until I sign it, between 1888 and 1890, with the pseudonym Corno di Bassett.

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