1948 Nobel Prize in Literature

1948 Nobel Prize in Literature
Thomas Stearns Eliot
"for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry."
Date
  • 4 November 1948 (announcement)
  • 10 December 1948
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to British-American poet Thomas Stearns Eliot (pen name, T. S. Eliot) (1888–1965) "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry."[1] Eliot is the fourth British (born in the United States) recipient of the prize after John Galsworthy in 1932.

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in literature 1948 nobelprize.org