"for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life"

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No father at the age of two and a half years, François Mauriac and studied with Marianist institution of St. Mary Major-Lebrun Caudéran. In addition to the various houses that the family held in Bordeaux, adolescence is marked by several places that all Girondins deeply mark his work: the Landes de Gascogne around Langon Verdelais and Saint-Symphorien, towns dominated by the bourgeoisie wine or having made his fortune in logging, climate heavy secrets he choked painted in most of his novels.

"for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (Blenheim Palace, November 30, 1874 - London, Jan. 24, 1965) was a statesman, historian, writer and speaker of Britain. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. He was awarded for his historical works, their newspaper articles and his brilliant speeches, which stand as one of the main speakers of the twentieth century.

Descendant of the Duke of Marlborough and son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a prominent conservative politician, after studying at Harrow, he enlisted in the British army. Fought in India, Sudan and South Africa. He took his successive destinations to work as a correspondent, which allowed him to finance his travels. The popularity reached that allowed him to devote himself to politics.

"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"

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Born on July 21 of 1899 in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. It was the second son of a family of three. His father, Clarence Hemingway Edmond, was a doctor and he liked hunting and fishing. His mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, had studied music and made him interested in her. Ernest's father owned a house with land on Bear Lake. There, Ernest learned to fish (with three years was already capable of handling a cane) and hunt (with twelve grasp the carbine). He studied at the Institute of Secondary Oak Park and River Forest, where he learned to play the cello and was part of the orchestra. He was captain of the hockey team and played rugby. It was also interested in boxing and fought with his comrades in the waste area. In the studies highlighted in language, but apathy felt by the other disciplines. He showed his literary skills in the school newspaper, using the alias Ring Lardner, Jr. At the end of their studies, in 1917, did not want to go to college, as his father wanted, or wanted to improve his cello studies, as his mother wanted. He moved to Kansas in October 1917 and began working for a reporter at the Kansas City Star.

"for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland"

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Kiljan Halldór Laxness, born Halldór Guðjónsson, (Reykjavik on April 23 1902 - February 8 1998) is a famous writer Icelandic twentieth century. Il remporta le prix Nobel de littérature en 1955 . He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.