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20 mag 2024 · 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.
3 giorni fa · English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century, are called Old English .
1 giorno fa · Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art ... Merriam-Webster. 1995.
9 mag 2024 · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: May 9, 2024 • Article History. T.S. Eliot. In full: Thomas Stearns Eliot. Born: September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Died: January 4, 1965, London, England (aged 76) Founder: “The Criterion” Awards And Honors: Nobel Prize (1948) Notable Works: “Ash Wednesday” “Burnt Norton”
- T.S. Eliot attended Smith Academy, St. Louis, and Milton Academy, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Harvard in 1909. He spent the year 1910–11...
- T.S. Eliot was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry...
- T.S. Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction, style, and...
2 mag 2024 · In 1995 he adapted a Christmas story he’d written for The New York Times and, alongside Wayne Wang, co-directed Smoke, a film set in a Brooklyn smoke shop that interweaves the stories of the...
13 mag 2024 · Although Fosse focused on writing plays for most of the 1990s and 2000s, he occasionally published prose, including Melancholia I (1995; Melancholy I) and Melancholia II (1996; Melancholy II), a fictionalization of the life of 19th-century Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig as he descends into madness.
6 giorni fa · The term ‘English literature’ refers to the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles from the 7th century to the present, ranging from drama, poetry, and fiction to autobiography and historical writing. Landmark writers range from William Shakespeare and Arundhati Roy to Jane Austen and Kazuo Ishiguro.
