Svetlana Alexievich (b. 1948) Belarus (Born in the Soviet Union) Russian: 67 "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" history, essay 2016: Bob Dylan (b. 1941) United States: English: 75 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" poetry, song lyrics 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro

Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault, [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers.Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters [according to whom?He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel …

In 2015 a rare prize to a non-fiction writer was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich. Shared prize. The Nobel Prize in Literature can be shared between two individuals. However, the Academy has been reluctant to award shared prizes, mainly because divisions are liable to be interpreted as a result of a compromise.

François Charles Mauriac (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃaʁl moʁjak], Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich: 31 May 1948 Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" 15 2018: Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk-Fingas: 29 January 1962 Sulechów, Poland "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life" 16 2020

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors which, according to the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the benefactor of the prize, has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction". It is one of the five Nobel Prizes which are awarded for outstanding …

Anatoly Tikhonovich Marchenko (Russian: Анато́лий Ти́хонович Ма́рченко, 23 January 1938 – 8 December 1986) was a Soviet dissident, author, and human rights campaigner, who became one of the first two recipients (along with Nelson Mandela) of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought of the European Parliament when it was awarded to him posthumously in 1988.

He was named by Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015, as "her main teacher, who helped her to find a path of her own". Music in Belarus largely comprises a rich tradition of folk and religious music. The country's folk music traditions can be traced back to the times of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. The series was created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck.It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson and Paul Ritter.The series was produced by HBO in the United …

Life and work. Ujicǎ studied literature in Timișoara, Bucharest and Heidelberg.He moved to Germany in 1981. In 1990 he began making films. Together with Harun Farocki, he created Videograms of a Revolution, a film which has become a standard work in Europe when referring to relationships between political power and the media and the end of the Cold War, and which …

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist.His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work …

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright.In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."

Life. Enzensberger was born in 1929 in Kaufbeuren, a small town in Bavaria and is the eldest of four boys. He is part of the last generation of intellectuals whose writing was shaped by first-hand experience of the Third Reich. The Enzensberger family moved to Nuremberg, the ceremonial birthplace of National Socialism, in 1931. Julius Streicher, the founder and publisher of Der …

Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish: [ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.. Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, …