The 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Irish author Samuel Beckett "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevati
"for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation"
Poster for drama performance of Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
The 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chilean politician and poet Pablo Neruda "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."
1969 Nobel Prize in Literature
…1969 prize with which he was awarded afterwards. Nominees included were André Malraux, Simone de Beauvoir, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda (awarded in 1971), Heinrich Böll (awarded in 1972), Eugenio Montale (awarded in 1975), Günter Grass (awarded in 1999), Jorge Amado, Louis Aragon, Witold Gombrowicz…
"for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."
Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)