"for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga"

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John Galsworthy (n. Coombe, Surrey, on August 14, 1867 - London, January 31, 1933). English novelist and playwright

He studied at Harrow and Oxford University, where he obtained a doctorate in law in 1890, but soon began to write, perhaps because of his friendship with Joseph Conrad.

In 1899 published his first novel, Jocelyn, under the pseudonym "John Sinjohn" to be used for some time. In 1906 premiered his first play, The Silver Box (The box of silver), which proved a success, followed by A Man of Property (The owner) that began with the famous series "The Forsyte Saga of the" thought initially for 5 volumes. In this series is a whole set of situations of family life in the high middle class English, both from the Victorian era and the modern. After the initial title, published The veranillo St. Martin of a Forsyte (1918), In the court (1920), Wake (1920) and Rent (1921).

"for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing"

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Ivan Bunin Alexéievich (in Russian Cyrillic) (n. Voronezh, October 22, 1870 - Paris, November 8, 1953). Russian writer.

Born the Russian Central, in the heart of a noble family, lived up to seven years in the farm that his parents owned in Yelets. He was educated at home under parental discipline of a tutor who taught him how to read and write using a Russian translation of Don Quixote, with the tales and legends of Gogol and with Robinson Crusoe.

"for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"

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Born on June 28, 1867 in Villaseta of Càvusu, now known Xaos (in any case the etymology of this place, according to the same Pirandello, derived from the Greek word Kaos). In the twentieth century Càvusu / Xaos has become an "against" or suburb of the Sicilian city of Girgenti, why it is prevalent in many texts are given as the birthplace city of Agrigento, and even the neighboring city Porto Empedocle.
Luigi Pirandello was the son of Caterina Ricci-Gramitto and Stefano Pirandello, a businessman garibaldino middle class but illustrious descent, investor in the industry sulfide. Both Pirandello as the Ricci-Gramitto were heavily antiborbónicos and actively participating in the movement "Il Risorgimento", for the democratic unification of Italy. Stefano came to participate in the famous adventure of a thousand, according to Garibaldi at the battle of Aspromonte while Caterina, who barely had thirteen years, due to emigrate with his father to Malta where he had been sent into exile by the reigning Bourbon monarchy. The feelings of disappointment that their parents (especially Caterina) coined after the establishment of unification and its subsequent and traumatic reality, Pirandello draw much of the emotional atmosphere that characterized his writings, especially the novel The old and young. It is also possible that the sense of betrayal and resentment inculcate in the young Luigi the disparity between ideals and reality that stresses in his essay L'Umore ( "The humor").

"for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"

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His father, James O'Neill was a theater actor of Irish origin who had grown up in the midst of abject poverty. His mother, Ella Quinlan O'Neill, the daughter was sensitive, emotionally fragile, a rich father died when she had only 17 years. Mrs. O'Neill never exceeded the deaths from measles within two years of his second son, Edmund, and became addicted to morphine after the difficult birth of Eugene O'Neill.

Despite the fact that Eugene O'Neill was born in a hotel room on Broadway in New York, his childhood is closely linked to New London in Connecticut. His family had a property in this city since before he was born and before going to live there so was his final summer residence. Due to the occupation of his father, spent his early years behind the scenes in theaters and on trains in which the family was moving from one place to another. For seven years, O'Neill was sent to a Catholic boarding school in which he found as the sole consolation of reading.