The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
Rabindranath Tagore(1913)
Prize motivation: because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, with perfect skills, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words，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 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 his brilliant speech skills in defending noble human values.
Claude Simon (1985)
Prize motivation: he 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.
