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William Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 *. Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human ...
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 was awarded to William Faulkner "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"
Faulkner's reputation grew upon the publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner, and he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel." He is the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate.
William Faulkner received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1950. During the selection process in 1949, the Nobel Committee for Literature decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel.
William Cuthbert Faulkner (New Albany, 25 de setembro de 1897 — Byhalia, 6 de julho de 1962) foi um escritor norte-americano, considerado um dos maiores romancistas do século XX. Recebeu o Nobel de Literatura de 1949. Posteriormente, ganhou o National Book Awards em 1951, por Collected Stories e em 1955, pelo romance Uma Fábula.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Agony and the Sweat’ is the title sometimes given to one of the most memorable Nobel Prize acceptance speeches: the American novelist William Faulkner’s acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature at Stockholm in 1950.
23 de mai. de 2024 · William Faulkner, American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature and is best known for his works set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County. His notable novels include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and Light in August.
