Essays Tagged: "Nobel Prize in Literature"
This essay is "Pearl S. Buck" describing her life in China, family, and inspiration for her books.
m living there. Her writings became very popular and she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature.In June of 1892, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker gave birth to Pearl in ... .Pearl Buck went on to write many more novels and books of non-fiction. Her great works won her the Nobel Prize in literature and made her one of the most popular writers. She died at 80 years old in ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
MINI BIOGRAPHY on WILLAM FAULKNER
s novels include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and The Reivers. In 1950 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature (the co-recipient that year was Bertrand Russell).Extra credit: During Wor ... s novels include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and The Reivers. In 1950 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature (the co-recipient that year was Bertrand Russell).Extra credit: During Wor ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Ten Poets We Should remember
ather elaborate attempt by the speaker of the poem to persuade his "coy mistress" to sleep with him.Nobel Laureate<6> W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was widely considered to be the finest poet of his t ... ree" (1893), and "Leda" and "Swan" (1928) to see if you agree.Irish poet Seamus Heaney (1939- ) won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, and was awarded the 2000 Whitbread<7> Book of the Year Awa ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
Double Standard
om accusations, which in turn create a double standard of viewing. Toni Morrison, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, disagrees with the hypocrisy and portrays the double standard of people t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Salman Rusdie - portrait in brief
omeini on February 14,1989, after publishing SATANIC VERSES. Naguib Mahfouz, the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, criticized Khomeini for 'intellectual terrorism' but changed his view lat ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Biography of Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. Throughout his life, he has influenced many other Hispanic writers, and h ... ec art, and anthropology. The public appreciated his works to such an extent, that he was given the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990, but only lived another 8 years, until 1998, to enjoy it. O ... lishments are his writing of "The Labyrinth of Solitude", which is what many believe earned him the Nobel Prize. He also managed to establish two major magazines, the Plural and the Vuelta. In 1980, h ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Indian Literature
al Jnanapeeth award, the highest honor in Indian literature.A poet, a scholar, a philosopher, and a Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore is perhaps the most famous Indian poet and playwright to have li ... orks are Sadhana, Sonar Tari, and Pravavi.Tagore was the first non-westerner to be awarded with the Nobel prize for literature and was knighted by Britain's king in 1915. He later reminisced his knigh ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors
The Unvanquished
people when they read his book. He expressed his same philosophies in his exception speech for the Nobel Prize. It was one of the shortest speeches given in history but was a very powerful one. I fel ... and doomed-love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice."(William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Speech). Faulkner's' words in this quote caught me and made me read more into the speech ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
The Unvanquished
people when they read his book. He expressed his same philosophies in his exception speech for the Nobel Prize. It was one of the shortest speeches given in history but was a very powerful one. I fel ... and doomed-love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice."(William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Speech). Faulkner's' words in this quote caught me and made me read more into the speech ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
John Steinbeck: Reflection In American Literature
live in while Steinbeck continued writing (Bowmen 167). Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939, the Nobel Prize in literature in 1962, and the United States Medal of Freedom in 1964 before he passed a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
till true to this distinct style. The same year the book was published, Márquez captured the nobel prize in literature for a previous work, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Historically speaking, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Hitler
1965. Some of his awards include the Dial award, won for ìThe Waste Landî (1922), the Nobel Prize for Literature (1948), the British Order of Merit (1948), and the American Medal of Free ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Nobel Literature Prize Winner
efined and colourful". This is how people who regularly read the writings of this year's literature Nobel prize winner Jean Marie Gustavo Le Clezio. He is the 14th French man to win this prestigious a ... Clezio will be richer by 10 million kronor (1.02 million Euro's, 1.42 million dollars) apart from a Nobel diplomaIn 1967, he was posted in Thailand under military service but he was expelled because h ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
Alexander Fleming and Penicillin
What is the Nobel Prize? The Nobel Prize is an international award given every year since 1901 to recognize peop ... le for their achievements and years of hard work and determination. The prize was created by Alfred Nobel and today it is awarded by the Nobel Foundation. There were originally five categories of this ... ndation. There were originally five categories of this award but today there are six, which are the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Nobel Prize in Medicine, the Nobel Prize i ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
la humanidad en la trampa de la industrializacion
10.03.14Colegio Andino-Deutsche Schule BogotáDepartamento de español BachilleratoGabriela Friedrich 11i2L ... e;Departamento de español BachilleratoGabriela Friedrich 11i2La Humanidad en la Trampa de la Industrialización"La Metamorfosis" de Kafka es un producto en el que se cristalizan las grand ... profundos cambios en las estructuras sociales entre el siglo XIX y el siglo XX. Al leer a Kafka es inevitable remitirse a la reflexión de Ernesto Sábato sobre la inconveniencia de los e ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A Modern Female Image in A Woman on a Roof
A Modern Female Image in A Woman on a RoofDoris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, is described as the epicist of the female experience, with skepticism, fi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers