Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009?
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Herta Müller
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 was awarded to Herta Müller “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.”
Who got Nobel Prize in 2008?
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 to Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discoveries of two viruses causing severe human diseases.
Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020?
Louise Glück
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
Who won a Nobel Prize for literature India?
Rabindranath Tagore
Citizens of British India
| Year | Laureate | Field |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | Literature |
| 1930 | C. V. Raman | Physics |
Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019?
Peter Handke
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 was awarded to Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
Who is the youngest Nobel Prize winner in Literature?
Rudyard Kipling
The youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature is Rudyard Kipling (UK, b. 30 December 1865, d. 18 January 1936) who won the prize in 1907.
Who was the first Indian who got Nobel Prize for Literature?
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to get a Nobel Prize in 1913 for his work in Literature. He won the award for “his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”.
Who was the joint winner of the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine?
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 was divided, one half awarded to Harald zur Hausen “for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer”, the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier “for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus.”
What is the Nobel Prize in literature?
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature.
Who are the three Nobel laureates who wrote in English?
Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature 1913) wrote in Bengali and English, Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize in Literature 1969) wrote in French and English and Joseph Brodsky (Nobel Prize in Literature 1987) wrote poetry in Russian and prose in English. These three Nobel laureates have been sorted under Bengali, French and Russian, respectively.
Where can I find media related to Nobel laureates in literature?
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nobel laureates in Literature. “All Nobel Laureates in Literature”. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-16. 1 Nobel Memorial Prize (not one of the original Nobel Prizes).
How many women have won the Nobel Prize in literature?
Fourteen women have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, more than any other Nobel Prize with the exception of the Nobel Peace Prize. There have been four instances in which the award was given to two people (1904, 1917, 1966, 1974).