By Azimjonova Gulchekhra 204 Nobel prize winners in American literature Who won the first American Nobel Prize?

By Azimjonova Gulchekhra 204

Nobel prize winners in American literature

Who won the first American Nobel Prize?

Lewis was very honored to be the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy awarded it to him in 1930, because of the five great novels he wrote in the 1920s, Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth. King Gustav gave the prize to Lewis in Stockholm, Sweden, and his second wife, Dorothy Thompson, went with him. Erik Karlfeldt, a poet and secretary of the Academy, introduced Lewis during the prize presentation in a lengthy survey of his five major novels. Karlfeldt applauded Lewis for, among many things, his criticism of American institutions and industry, his satire, and of course, his writing style. Karlfeldt noted Lewis's mastery of language in the character development of Babbitt
Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born novelist and academic who lives in the United Kingdom and holds British citizenship. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution.[1] His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; Desertion (2005); and By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents".He is Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent

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