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The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature Rabindranath Tagore( 1913)
Prize motivation: "because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, with perfect skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West"
William Faulkner (1949)
Prize motivation: "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"
Ernest Miller Hemingway(1954)
Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea"
John Steinbeck (1962)
Prize motivation: "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1953)
Prize motivation: "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant speech skills in defending noble human values"
Claude Simon (1985)
Prize motivation: "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the description of the human condition"
Mo Yan (2012)
Prize motivation: "he, with dreamlike realism, combines folk tales, history and the contemporary".
Bob Dylan (2016)
Prize motivation: "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
1. Which writer won Nobel Prize for his poetry? ______
A. William Faulkner. B. Bob Dylan.
C. Rabindranath Tagore. D. Claude Simon.
2. Which writer won Noble Prize for his specific work instead of his lifelong achievements? ______
A. Ernest Hemingway. B. John Steinbeck.
C. William Faulkner. D. Winston Churchill.
3. Whose works will you turn to if you are interested in a song writing Nobel Prize winner? ______
A. Mo Yan's. B. Bob Dylun's.
C. Claude Simon's. D. Rabindranath Tagore's.
4. Who described real life experience in his historic works? ______
A. John Steinbeck. B. Mo Yan.
C. Ernest Hemingway. D. Winston Churchill.