Nobel Prize in Literature

control over Vietnam. During the Counterculture Revolution there was also the civil rights movement both for African Americans and women in America. There were many main figures but the important ones were Martin Luther King Jr. who won the Nobel peace prize and Rosa Parks who took a stand against the rules about skin colored people. Meanwhile for the women rights main figures included Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony. These were brave people who stood against the law, government and community.…

It was the last major fiction book he wrote which was pretty successful and some would say this book played a big role in him winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 to cap of his writing career. The story is about a cuban fisherman who really hasn't been lucky lately with fishing , but finally has his day and has an agonizing battle with a giant marlin. The fisherman may have won the battle…

In the early 1900’s, many immigrants moved to America with hopes that they could live freely and work to have a better life. The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, is about a Lithuanian family who worked in the Chicago Stockyards and discovered the true horrors of working in the meatpacking plants. The theme in Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, reveals how much damage capitalism caused and the effect that capitalism had on people. As the main character goes throughout life, he is constantly…

Toni Morrison is considered as one of the prominent writers in African-American history. In 1993, Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature and she became the eighth woman and the first African-American to win the prize. Her novels furnish themselves to feminist interpretation because they challenge the cultural norms of class, gender and race. In her novels, Beloved bagged Pulitzer Prize award for Fiction in 1988 and remains one of the most well-known and critically-acclaimed works. Toni…

Jig is a code hero, and she shows no emotions because they cannot, she has to be strong and brave. In November 1954, Hemingway became the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His last years were very troubled he was physically and mentally ill. He committed suicide on July 2 1961. The Old Man and the Sea was Hemingway's last novel published during his lifetime. In “Hills Like White Elephants”, Jig is not going to have an abortion because she lives by the code hero to not show…

William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945, he was known for writing novels, short stories, and poetry. William Faulkner’s fifth novel, As I Lay Dying, published in 1930. The novel takes place in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, in the 1920s. This fictional county is very similar to Lafayette County in Mississippi, where Faulkner grew up. Known for how Faulkner wrote this novel, As I Lay Dying consists of fifteen different narrators, each chapter throws a piece of the puzzle…

today. A magazine article says, “But is his work literature? Yes, absolutely, and literature is what the Nobel Prize is for”, which is describing a songwriter who out did the means of poetry internationally (Teicher). This being said, all poetic pieces have their similarities and differences, but it is the details and perfect use of poetic devices that reveal either the song or poem to be more artistic. Granting that…

Beowulf is considered the oldest epic poem in the English language, and the earliest piece of indigenous European literature. In the 19th century, Beowulf was written in Old English, the language of the Saxons. This epic did not have a title originally, but began to be referred to by the name of the Scandinavian hero, Beowulf, with heroic sources and virtues as the primary focus. Both the hero and the story are fiction even though historical elements run through the poem (Snell 1). There have…

Portrayal of world-wide torture and oppression in “Waiting for the Barbarians” One of the most horrifying realities of the twentieth century is the widespread existence of state-approved torture. Amnesty International cites allegations that torture took place in ninety-eight countries in 1984 and estimates that in the 1980s more than one-third of the world's governments are responsible for torturing prisoners. The existence of torture in the modern world raises difficult questions for writers…

significant Colombian novelist of the 20th century, is well known in the Spanish language. Trading in the source for living, he left law school to pursue journalism. In 1972 and 1982, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Nobel Prize in Literature for his outstanding works. Garcia Marquez’s favorite style of writing is known as magic realism, which consists of “magical moments and events of realistic situations,” (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 2018). Portraying a true…