ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -William Faulkner received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1950. During the selection process in 1949, the Nobel Committee for Literature decided that none of the year’s nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel.

Detailed explanation-2: -Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel".

Detailed explanation-3: -In his speech, Faulkner makes his famous statement about the ‘duty’ of writers: that they should write about ‘the human heart in conflict with itself’, as well as emotions and themes such as compassion, sacrifice, courage, and hope.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lord Boyd Orr The Scottish physician and biologist John Boyd Orr emerged in the inter-war years as one of Britain’s leading experts on nutrition. He maintained that many Britons were malnourished because their incomes were too low.