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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958 was awarded to Boris Leonidovich Pasternak "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition".
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1958 - Announcement - NobelPrize.org
On October 25, 1958, two days after the official...
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1958 - Announcement - NobelPrize.org
As of 2023, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of Nobel laureates.
The 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Russian author Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition." He is the second Russian-language writer to be awarded with such honor.
On October 25, 1958, two days after the official communication from the Swedish Academy that Boris Pasternak had been selected as the Nobel Prize winner in literature, the Russian writer sent the following telegram to the Swedish Academy: “Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.”.
The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded, according to the will of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the field of literature.
YearNameCountry*Literary Area2023Norwaynovelist, playwright, poet2022Francenovelist, memoirist2021Tanz.novelist2020U.S.poet- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 19, 2024 · French writer Roger du Gard (1881–1958) received the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature "for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel cycle 'Les Thibault.'"
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List of Nobel Prize laureates (winners) in Literature from 1901 to the present date.
