Tuesday, January 20, 2015

He won in 1970, the Chilean poet Neruda, featured in the Italian flick, "Il Postino" won in 1971.............




  • 1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974)
    Guatamalan writer. Received the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America."
  • 1968 - Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972)
    Japanese writer. Received the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind."
  • 1969 - Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
    Irish writer. Received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
  • 1970 - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
    Russian writer. Received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature."
  • 1971 - Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
    Chilean writer. Pseudonym for Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto.
    Received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."

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