Name the last British winner, who was also the oldest winner, of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
"issue of their ""political stance"" was also raised in response to the awards of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Orhan Pamuk and Doris Lessing in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The 2016 choice of Bob Dylan was the first time a musician and song-writer won the Nobel for Literature. The award caused some controversy, particularly among writers arguing that the literary merits of Dylan's work are not equal to those of some of his peers. Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine tweeted that ""Bob Dylan winning a Nobel in Literature is like Mrs Fields being awarded 3 Michelin stars."" The French Moroccan"
"fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include ""The Forsyte Saga"" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells"
"the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as ""that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"". Lessing was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, ""The Times"" ranked her fifth on a list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Iran, on 22 October 1919, to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh), both British"
"Day. World Book Day is observed in Britain and the Crown Dependencies on the first Thursday in March annually. British recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature include Rudyard Kipling (1907), John Galsworthy (1932), T. S. Eliot (1948), Bertrand Russell (1950), Winston Churchill (1953), William Golding (1983), V. S. Naipaul (2001), Harold Pinter (2005) Doris Lessing (2007), and Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). Literary prizes for which writers from the United Kingdom are eligible include: British literature British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon (Old"
"Nobel Prize laureates. Four authors have won the Nobel Prize for literature in the last ten years: J.M.G. Le Clézio (2008), Herta Müller (2009), Mo Yan (2012) and Alice Munro (2013). Other well-known authors they have published are: Ha Jin, Annie Proulx, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Jim Crace, and Carol Shields. Eric Visser recognized that it was difficult for authors to break through internationally. He said: ‘Most editors around the world read English but not, for example, Dutch, French or Swedish so I decided to start publishing in English.’ Only 3% of all publications in the UK are translations, so World"
"oldest winner of the literature prize at the time of the award and the third-oldest Nobel laureate in any category (after Leonid Hurwicz and Raymond Davis Jr.). She also was only the 11th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy in its 106-year history. in 2017, just 10 years later, her Nobel medal was put up for auction. Previously only one Nobel medal for literature was sold at auction, for André Gide in 2016. Lessing was out shopping for groceries when the Nobel Prize announcement came. Arriving home to a gathering of reporters, she"
"Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro (1954– ) was born in Japan, but his parents immigrated to Britain when he was six, and he became a British citizen as an adult. Martin Amis (1949) is one of the most prominent British novelists of the end of the 20th, beginning of the 21st century. Pat Barker (1943–) has won many awards for her fiction. English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (1948– ) is a highly regarded writer. An important cultural movement in the British theatre that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s was Kitchen sink realism (or ""kitchen sink drama""), art,"
"Joyce creates parallels with Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. William Faulkner's ""The Sound and the Fury"" (1929) is another significant modernist novel, that uses the stream of consciousness technique. Novelists who are not considered modernists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932) whose works include a sequence of novels, collectively called ""The Forsyte Saga"" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); and E.M. Forster's (1879–1970), though Forster's work is ""frequently regarded as containing both modernist and Victorian"
"(1866–1946). Though Forster's work is ""frequently regarded as containing both modernist and Victorian elements"". E. M. Forster's ""A Passage to India"" (1924), reflected challenges to imperialism, while his earlier works such as ""A Room with a View"" (1908) and ""Howards End"" (1910), examined the restrictions and hypocrisy of Edwardian society in England. The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling ((1865–1936), a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). A significant English writer in the"
"Angela Carter's ""Nights at the Circus"". James Tait Black Memorial Prize The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, the prizes were founded in 1919 by Mrs Janet Coats Black in memory of her late husband, James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black Ltd. Prizes are awarded in three categories: Fiction, Biography and Drama. From inception, the James Tait Black prize was organised"
"2016. Bainbridge died on 2 July 2010, aged 77, in a London hospital after her cancer recurred. Confusion over her birth year resulted in some reports giving her age at death as 75. She is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Beryl Bainbridge Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She"
"1942–2003 Source: 2007–2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom. Established in 1942, it was the second oldest literary award in the UK. Since 2011 the award has been suspended due to funding problems. The last award was in 2010. The prize was initiated in 1942 by Jane Oliver in memory of her husband John Llewellyn Rhys, a young author who was killed"
"Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, ""The Times"" included her in a list of ""the 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". In 2012, ""The Observer"" named her final novel, ""The Blue Flower"" one of ""the ten best historical novels"". Penelope Fitzgerald was born Penelope Mary Knox at the Old Bishop's Palace, Lincoln, the daughter of Edmund Knox, later editor of ""Punch"", and Christina Hicks, daughter of Edward Hicks, the bishop of Lincoln, and one of the first women students at Oxford. She was"
"who have won the most prestigious literary award in the world, the Nobel Prize for Literature, are: Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 1945), Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala, 1967), Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1971), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1982), Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1990), and Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru, 2010). The Neustadt International Prize for Literature, perhaps the most important international literary award after the Nobel Prize, counts several Latin American authors among its recipients; they include: Claribel Alegría (Nicaragua), Álvaro Mutis (Colombia), João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil), Octavio Paz (Mexico), and Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia). Candidates for the prize include: Ricardo Piglia (Argentina),"
"and third-place winners. The awards' current definition of a classical play is one written before 1918. The awards for the previous year's performances are presented the following year. The 2017 awards were presented on 18 May 2018, and the winner was Natalie Simpson. The ""Sunday Times"" chief drama critic John Peter saw and reviewed Ian Charleson's extraordinary ""Hamlet"" at the National Theatre in late 1989. Unbeknownst to the audience, Charleson performed it during the last weeks of his life while he was seriously ill with AIDS, and died in January 1990 at the age of 40 eight weeks after his"
"A. S. Byatt Dame Antonia Susan Duffy HonFBA (""née"" Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally as A. S. Byatt ( ), is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, ""The Times"" newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Byatt was born in Sheffield as Antonia Susan Drabble, the eldest child of John Drabble, QC, and Kathleen Bloor, a scholar of Browning. Her sisters are the novelist Margaret Drabble and the art historian Helen Langdon. Her brother Richard Drabble QC is a barrister. As a result of the bombing of"
"choice of Johnson and Harry Martinson as Nobel Prize winners in 1974 was controversial as both were on the Nobel panel themselves and Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow and Jorge Luis Borges were the favoured candidates that year. Eyvind Johnson Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation: ""for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands"
"John Llewellyn Rhys Prize The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom. Established in 1942, it was the second oldest literary award in the UK. Since 2011 the award has been suspended due to funding problems. The last award was in 2010. The prize was initiated in 1942 by Jane Oliver in memory of her husband John Llewellyn Rhys, a young author who was killed on 5 August"
"person to receive the award, having been 89 years old when he won for ""Call Me by Your Name"". Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: George Bernard Shaw (who shared an award for an adaptation of his play ""Pygmalion""), Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, James Hilton, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J. Perelman, Terence Rattigan, John Osborne, Robert Bolt, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Larry McMurtry, Arthur Miller, John Irving, David Hare, Tony Kushner, and August Wilson. Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, writers of ""Logan"", are the"
"are (acted/published) and unless otherwise noted are taken from Scott's edition. John Dryden John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott called him ""Glorious John"". Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was rector of All Saints. He was the eldest of fourteen"
"in 2011. He died at home on 6 March 2010 and is survived by his son and daughter and second wife, Mary whom he married in 1985. Kenneth Newton William Kenneth Newton (6 November 1927 – 6 March 2010) was an English doctor who treated British and foreign royalty as well as many celebrities, and after retirement wrote the acclaimed novel ""The Two Pound Tram"" (under the name William Newton) which won the 2005 Society of Authors Sagittarius Prize (for first novelists over the age of 60). He was born in Ealing, west London the son of racing driver Frank"
"The shortlist for the 2014 prize was announced in August, and the winner was announced on 10 October. The 2014 winner was Paul Kingsnorth for ""The Wake"". The 2015 winner was journalist Dan Davies for ""In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile."" The 2016 winner was David Szalay for ""All That Man Is"". The 2017 winner was Denise Mina for ""The Long Drop"". The 2018 winner was Jesse Ball for ""Census"". Gordon Burn Gordon Burn (16 January 1948 – 17 July 2009) was an English writer born in Newcastle upon Tyne and the author of four novels"
"(1973), ""The Best of Enemies"" (1976), ""Sister Dora"" (1977), and ""Star Over Bethlehem"" (1981). <br> <br> Christopher Fry Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably ""The Lady's Not for Burning"", which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. Fry was born as Arthur Hammond Harris in Bristol, the son of Charles John Harris, a master builder who retired early to work full-time as a licensed Lay Reader in the Church of England, and his wife Emma Marguerite Fry"
"Kazuo Ishiguro Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to the UK in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro graduated from the University of Kent with a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy in 1978 and gained his master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. Ishiguro is considered one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and having won the award in 1989, for his"
"Carnegie Medal (literary award) The Carnegie Medal is a British literary award that annually recognizes one outstanding new book for children or young adults. It is conferred upon the author by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). CILIP calls it ""the UK's oldest and most prestigious book award for children's writing"" and claims that writers call it ""the one they want to win"". The Medal is named after the Scottish-born American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), who founded more than 2800 libraries in the English-speaking world, including at least one in more than half of British library authorities."
"Nobel Prize in Literature the same year, Elfriede Jelinek (2004) and Harold Pinter (2005). The criteria for winning the award include the artwork's ""humanistic character and contribution to cultural, national, language and religious tolerance, its existential, timeless character, its generally human validity and its ability to hand over a testimony about our times."" Previous winners. Franz Kafka Prize The Franz Kafka Prize is an international literary award presented in honour of Franz Kafka, the German language novelist. The prize was first awarded in 2001 and is co-sponsored by the Franz Kafka Society and the city of Prague, Czech Republic. At"
"Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or ""entertainments"" as he termed them). He was shortlisted, in 1966 and 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writings, which included over 25 novels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political issues"
"while Robert Silverberg has the greatest number of nominations without winning at nine. Three authors have won the award in consecutive years: Orson Scott Card (1986, 1987), Lois McMaster Bujold (1991, 1992), and N. K. Jemisin (2016, 2017, and 2018). In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding ""year in literature"". Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. * Winners and joint winners Beginning with the 1996 Worldcon,"
"on 27 March 2017 in London at the age of 83. The cause was Parkinson's disease and dementia. Survivors include his two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, Helen and Kate; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren. David Storey David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league footballer. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel ""Saville"". He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for ""This Sporting Life"" in 1960. Storey was born on 13 July 1933 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the"
"Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, ""for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of Nazi Holocaust (he was a survivor of a German concentration camp), dictatorship and personal freedom. He died on 31 March 2016, aged 86, at his home in Budapest after suffering from Parkinson's disease for several years. Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 9"
"was awarded to the American writer George Saunders, for ""Lincoln in the Bardo"". Previous winners include Philip Roth and Lydia Davis. The 2014 award went to author Richard Flanagan for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, with his prize presented by Chair of judges AC Grayling at London's Guildhall. It was the first year in which eligibility for the award was expanded to include any novel written in English and published in the UK. Man also sponsors the Man Booker International Prize. This £50,000 prize is awarded each year on the basis of a single book translated into English,"
"the 2013 documentary film, """". His short story ""The Destructors"" was featured in the 2001 film ""Donnie Darko"". Bibliography Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or ""entertainments"" as he termed them). He was shortlisted, in 1966 and 1967, for the Nobel Prize for"
"1980 Nobel), Octavio Paz (1982 Neustadt, 1990 Nobel), Tomas Tranströmer (1990 Neustadt, 2011 Nobel) were first awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature before being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Another award of note is the Spanish Princess of Asturias Award (formerly Prince of Asturias Award) in Letters. During the first years of its existence it was almost exclusively awarded to writers in the Spanish language, but in more recent times writers in other languages have been awarded as well. Writers who have won both the Asturias Award in Letters and the Nobel Prize in Literature include Camilo José"