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Nobel Prizes
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Nobel Prizes, provided by the bequest of Alfred B. Nobel (1833–96), Swedish scientist, have been given annually since 1901 for the most significant contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine, and literature, and in the cause of peace. Awards are determined by committees at Stockholm and Oslo, and may be given to persons of any nationality. Each prize amounts to approximately $825,000 (1993). American‐born recipients in literature are Sinclair Lewis (1930), O'Neill (1936), Pearl Buck (1938), T.S. Eliot (1948), Faulkner (1950), Hemingway (1954), Steinbeck (1962); Saul Bellow (1976), who, though born in Montreal, was raised in Chicago and calls himself “a Chicagoan out and out”; and Toni Morrison (1993). Recipients have also included two naturalized U.S. citizens who write in other languages: Isaac B. Singer (1978) and Czeslaw Milosz (1980).
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