In which year did William Faulkner win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer 1

It was the Nobel Prize for Literature (not peace) in 1949, for The Sound and the Fury. He was nominated the year before, immediately following the books first wide-scale publication, but controversy surrounding the novel lead the committee to grant the award instead to T.S. Eliot, before deciding the next year to commend Faulkner. The theme of Faulkner's acceptance speech may have led some people to think (or to recall incorrectly) that the prize was awarded for peace rather than for literature. Here is the famous peroration: It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

Answer 2

Yes, for his work of "A Fable" and the "Reivers." He got two separate awards.

I have read that His antiracist Inrtuder in the Dust (1948) occasioned the award of the Nobel Prize in 1950.

the first statement is wrong....he won the Pulitzer Prize for the Reivers

Answer 3

Though most of his work was written in the 1920's and 30's he was relatively unknown until 1949 when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature

He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of his works

A Fable (1954)

The Reivers (1962)

He also won the National Book Award for two of his works

Collected Stories (1951)

A Fable (1955)

Answer 4

yes he won the nobel peace prize for literature in 1949...you could find more info about that on Google

Answer 5

He recived the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. His acceptance was made in 1950.

Answer 6

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 was awarded to William Faulkner for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.

Answer 7

William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.

Answer 8

1949.