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Nobel Prize

Great Britain · Arts / Literature. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

8Records
1907–2017Date range
8Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1907

Rudyard Kipling1907

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

1932

John Galsworthy1932

Stockholm · Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

1950

Bertrand Russell1950

Stockholm · Arts / Literature

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for writings championing humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.

1983

William Golding10 December 1983

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

2001

V. S. Naipaul2001

Stockholm · Arts / Literature

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for perceptive narrative and scrutiny that reveal the presence of suppressed histories.

2005

Harold Pinter2005

Stockholm · Arts / Literature

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for plays that uncover the precipice beneath everyday speech and expose oppression.

2007

Doris Lessing2007

Arts / Literature

Awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature

2017

Kazuo Ishiguro2017

Stockholm · Arts / Literature

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for novels of emotional force that uncover the abyss beneath an illusory sense of connection.

Names involved

Bertrand RussellDoris LessingHarold PinterJohn GalsworthyKazuo IshiguroRudyard KiplingV. S. NaipaulWilliam Golding

Provenance

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