Nobel Laureates
Literature 1923 - Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
Citation: ‘for his always inspired poetry, which in
a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a
whole nation’
Literature 1926 - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
Citation: ‘for his work which is marked by both idealism
and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with
a singular poetic beauty’
Literature 1969 - Beckett, Samuel (1906-89)
Citation: ‘for his writing, which - in new forms for
the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires
its elevation’
Literature 1995 - Heaney, Seamus (b.1939)
Citation: ‘for both works of lyrical beauty and ethical
depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past’
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