ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -He was appointed to the Irish Senate in 1922. Yeats is one of the few writers whose greatest works were written after the award of the Nobel Prize. Whereas he received the Prize chiefly for his dramatic works, his significance today rests on his lyric achievement.

Detailed explanation-2: -14 November 1923 William Butler Yeats Wins Nobel Peace Prize On 14 November 1923 Irish poet and senator, William Butler Yeats created history when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Irish citizen to achieve such an accolade.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2022 is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.

Detailed explanation-4: -It has awarded the first Nobel Prize in Literature to the poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme of the French Academy. Sully Prudhomme was born March 16, 1839, and in 1865 emerged as an accomplished poet in his Stances et Poèmes [Stanzas and Poems].

Detailed explanation-5: -Frederick Grant Banting and Professor John James Richard Macleod the Nobel Prize for 1923 in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of insulin.