The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 was awarded to Gabriela Mistral for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world.
Naguib Mahfouz won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
Nadine Gordimer won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991.
Nadine Gordimer is first South African and the seventh woman to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1991.
Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and F.W de Klerk for peace, and Nadine Gordimer and J.M Coetzee for literature.
The Only South African author who I am aware of is Nadine Gordimer. Her books have always been written with the subject of Apartheid at the core. My Mother informed me in her later years that Nadine was a distant cousin of mine. Nadine also won the Booker Prize.
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No, Charles Dickens did not receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature was established in 1901, after his death in 1870.
Yes, he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1983.
Franois Mauriac won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952.
Salvatore Quasimodo won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959.
John Steinbeck won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
Giorgos Seferis won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963.