ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AMERICAN LITERATURE

ELIZABETHAN ERA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When did Hemingway receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
A
1952
B
1954
C
1956
D
1958
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October of 1954. His acceptance speech, found in the 1972 biography Hemingway: The Writer as Artist, is one of the best ever.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American author Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."

Detailed explanation-3: -28–The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded today to Ernest Hemingway. The Swedish Academy, which presents this laurel, said of the 55-year-old American author in its citation: “For his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration, as most recently evinced in ‘The Old Man and the Sea.

Detailed explanation-4: -The prize was awarded to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in appreciation of its work in bringing relief and aid to the countless refugees and displaced persons to be found in Europe during the immediate post-war years.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ernest Hemingway, on account of ill health has to be absent from our celebration.

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