1941-1950

1949 : William Faulkner

William Faulkner

"for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"

Born	:	September 25, 1897
Place of birth	:	Oxford, Mississippi
Died	:	July 6, 1962
Place of death	:	Byhalia, Mississippi
Occupation	:	Novelist, Short story writer
Nationality	:	U.S.A.
Notable award(s)	:	Nobel Prize in Literature 1949

Biography:

Born into an aristocratic family, Faulkner was born under the name of William Falkner (not Faulkner) in New Albany (New Albany in English) in Union County (Mississippi) and was deeply influenced by the life of the southern states American. Mississippi marked his sense of humor, the tragic (by the social divide between blacks and whites in force at the time), its ability to build characters typical of the south (one of them being that of the bright and intelligent man, hidden behind the facade of the brave boy a little way). He took the name to Faulkner, said he is single, "mainly with respect to his father he did not, it was also a way for him to become a writer.

1950 : Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

"in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought"

Born	:	May 18, 1872
Place of birth	:	Trellech, Monmouthshire, UK
Died	:	February 2, 1970
Place of death	:	Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales, UK
Occupation	:	Writer
Nationality	:	Great Britain
Notable award(s)	:	Nobel Prize in Literature 1950

Biography:

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872, Tellek, Monmouthshire - February 2, 1970, near Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales), 3rd Earl Russell, is a mathematician, logician, philosopher, epistemologist, politician and British moralist.

Considered one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, with a thought that may be presented in three main areas.

The logic and the foundation of mathematics: Russell is, with Frege, one of the founders of the contemporary logic. His major work, written with Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica is. As a result of work axiomatisation of arithmetic Peano, Russell tried to apply its own logic to question the foundation of mathematics (see logicism).