ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Rudyard Kipling was 41 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907. He was, and still is, the youngest ever Literature Laureate. His stories, including the Jungle Book, have been entertaining generations of children ever since they were first published in 1893.

Detailed explanation-2: -The youngest laureate was Rudyard Kipling, who was 41 years old when he was awarded in 1907. The oldest laureate to receive the prize was Doris Lessing, who was 88 when she was awarded in 2007. It has been awarded posthumously once, to Erik Axel Karlfeldt in 1931.

Detailed explanation-3: -Henry James said “Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known.” In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date.

Detailed explanation-4: -Albert Camus is the second youngest Literature Laureate, 44 years old when awarded the 1957 #NobelPrize. Camus’s work include “The Plague”.