USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has become something of an enigma in the American literary canon. Almost completely forgotten until recently, he appears to be having something of a literary renaissance.

Detailed explanation-2: -On November 5, 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded due to the strength of an author’s entire body of work.

Detailed explanation-3: -2020 Nobel – Louise Elisabeth Glück (1943 – ), an American poet and essayist “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

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: -Born in 1886, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Henry Sinclair Lewis became the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.