As of May 2019 (no awards were awarded in 2018 and not announced in 2019), there are 11 winners, namely:
Joseph Rudyard Gibb Lin, John Galsworthy, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Winston Churchill, Elias Canetti, William Golding, V. Sue Naipaul, Harold Pinter, Doris Lessing, Kazuo Ishiguro.
1. Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (Joseph Rudyard Kipling), British novelist and poet. His major works include poetry collections "Barrack Ballads" and "Seven Seas", novel collections "The Resistance of Life" and animal stories "The Jungle Book", etc.
In 1907, Kipling won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work "Kim". He was only 42 years old at the time and was the youngest Nobel Prize winner to date. Reasons for the award: "This world-famous writer's works are characterized by meticulous observation, unique imagination, powerful spirit, and excellent narrative."
2. John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy (1867-1933), British novelist and playwright. A representative writer of British realist literature in the early 20th century.
Galsworthy was born in London in 1867 and studied law at Oxford University. In 1904, "The Pharisees" was published, which first attracted social attention. At the age of 30, he published his debut novel "Ends of the World".
In 1906, Galsworthy completed the novel "The Man of Industry", which earned him a reputation as an outstanding novelist. In 1932, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature that year. In 1933, John Galsworthy died at the age of 66.
Representative works include the "Forsyte" trilogy ("The Man of Property", "Ride" and "Rent") and the "Modern Comedy" trilogy ("The White Ape" and "Silver Spoon" ""Swan Song").
3. Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888-1965 January 4, 2011 (commonly known as T.S. Eliot), British poet, playwright and literary critic, leader of the modernist movement in poetry. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Eliot studied philosophy and comparative literature at Harvard University. He was exposed to Sanskrit and Eastern culture. He was very interested in Hegelian philosophers and was also influenced by French Symbolist literature. In 1914, Eliot met the American poet Pound.
After the outbreak of World War I, he came to England and settled in London, where he worked as a teacher and a bank clerk. "The Waste Land" published in 1922 won him international reputation and was regarded by critics as the most influential poem of the twentieth century and a milestone in modern British and American poetry.
In 1927, Eliot became a British citizen. The "Four Quartets" collected and published in 1943 won him the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature. In his later years, he devoted himself to poetry and drama creation. Eliot died in London in 1965.
Representative works include "The Wasteland", "Four Quartets", etc.
4. Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and mathematician , logician, historian, writer, the main founder of analytical philosophy, and the advocate and organizer of the world peace movement.
Main works include "History of Western Philosophy", "Philosophical Issues", "Analysis of Mind", "Analysis of Objects", etc.
Russell was born into a noble family in Mammoth County. In 1890, he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge University, and later taught there twice. In 1908 he was elected a member of the Royal Society. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 and was awarded the British Order of Merit.
In 1967, the Stockholm War Criminals Tribunal was organized to condemn U.S. policy in Vietnam. Died at home in Wales in 1970.
5. Winston Churchill
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (November 30, 1874 - January 1965) August 24), a British politician, historian, painter, orator, writer, and journalist. He was born into an aristocratic family. His father, Lord Randolph, served as the British Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England in 1874. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. He is considered one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century. He led the British people to win the Second World War and was one of the "Big Three" of the Yalta Conference. , issued the "Iron Curtain Speech" after the war, officially opening the prelude to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
His "The Unnecessary War" won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. He is the author of 16 volumes of "Memoirs of the Second World War" and 24 volumes of "History of the English-speaking Peoples".
Churchill is one of the people with the largest number of English words in history (more than 120,000). He was listed by the American magazine "People" as one of the eight most persuasive orators in the world in the past century. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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