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英国文学:Nobel Prize Winners in English Literature 1907 - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)British writer. Rudyard Kipling wrote novels, poems and short stories-mostly set in India and Burma (now known as Myanmar). He was the 1907 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature “in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author.”1923 - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)Irish writer. He received the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature “for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.”1925 - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 毕业论文网 论文网British/Irish writer. This Irish-born writer is considered the most significant British dramatist since Shakespeare. He was a playwright, essayist, political activist, lecturer, novelist, philosopher, revolutionary evolutionist, and most prolific letter writer in literary history. Received the 1925 Nobel Prize “for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.”·1932 - John Galsworthy (1867-1933)British writer. Received the 1932 Nobel Prize for Literature “for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga.”1948 - Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)British/American writer. Received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.”1950 - Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell (1872-1970)British writer. Received the 1950 Nobel in Literature “in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.”1953 - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)British writer. Received the 1953 Nobel in Literature “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.”1983 - William Golding (1911-1993)British writer. Received the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature “for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today.”2001 - V.S. Naipaul (1932- )British writer. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2001 “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.”2005 - Harold Pinter (1930- )British writer. The Nobel Prize for Literature 2005 was awarded to Harold Pinter “who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppressions closed rooms.”2007 - Doris Lessing (1919- )British writer (born in Persia, now Iran). The Nobel Prize for Literature 2006 was awarded to Doris Lessing for what the Swedish Academy termed “skepticism, fire and visionary power.” She is perhaps most famous for The Golden Notebook, a seminal work in feminist literature.