"for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength"

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Nelly Sachs was 1891 in Berlin-Schöneberg is the only child in the family of the inventor and industrialist William Sachs and his wife Margaret, born Karger, who was born and they grew into a cultured, assimilated Jewish upper atmosphere. Because of their sickly constitution was first three years of private teachers before 1903 in a higher daughters entered school, where they are five years later their "one-year" (equivalent Average maturity) graduated. With 15 years she was so fascinated by Selma Lagerlöf debut novel Gösta Berling, that they are consistent with the Swedish writer in an exchange of letters occurred in over 35 years. First, she wrote poems for 17 years.

"for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America"

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Miguel Angel Asturias Rosales (b. Guatemala City, October 19, 1899 - m. Madrid, June 9, 1974). Guatemalan writer and diplomat. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967. Two years earlier, had won the Lenin Peace Prize. He is buried in Paris at the cemetery Père-Lachaise (division 10).

Disagree with the dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera, he moved with his family inside the country, a people called Salamá. During part of the decade, 20, studied the Maya society and religion. Translated the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Quiche Maya, which ended in 1926. He studied medicine and law in his country, being the leader of the movement for university reform, and Anthropology at the University of Sorbonne (Paris). In 1942 was elected deputy in Guatemala. He was later appointed ambassador to various South American countries. In 1954, went into exile. After being rehabilitated in the 60s was ambassador to France.

"for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"

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1899 (Meiji) - June 14, Yasunari Kawabata, the second child of a prosperous and cultured family, comes into the world in Osaka. Born premature at seven months, he remained frail throughout his life. Yoshiko his sister is four years older.

His father, Eikichi, a physician in Osaka did his medical studies in Tokyo. End literate, amateur Chinese poetry and painting, he died of tuberculosis in January 1901.

"for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation"

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Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, a suburb of Dublin, April 13, 1906. It has also been suggested that the date could be the May 13. Beckett's father, William Beckett, was a rigger, and his mother, May Roe, a nurse from deep religious convictions, "almost Quaker, in the words of the writer . While his older brother, Frank, was a robust and placid child, Samuel was thin, sickly and crying constantly. It is said that the family Beckett (originally Becquet) was of Huguenot ancestry, and that is moved from Ireland to France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). This theory, however, is considered unlikely. In any case, Beckett were a wealthy family that belonged to the Church of Ireland (Anglican). The family home, "Cooldrinagh" in the avenue Kerrymount, of Foxrock, was a large mansion with gardens and tennis court. It was built in 1903 by the father of Samuel. The house and the green surroundings, in which Samuel used to walk with his father, including a racecourse, and railway stations of Foxrock and Harcourt Street, is situated at the end of the city, appear frequently in his books.