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1998 Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84

1998 Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95

1997 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo

1996 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69

1995 Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85

1994 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe

1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison

1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott

1990 Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature

1988 Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize

1988 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz

1987 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky

1985 French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature

1985 Gerard Schmook, Flemish literature historian/custodian, dies at 86

1982 Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies

1980 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz

1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature

1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow

1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda

1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1970 Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian, dies at 94

1967 Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, dies at 58

1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature

1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature

1959 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian, dies

1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature

1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

1956 Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70

1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature

1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway

1954 Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80

1953 Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/christian-socialist, dies at 57

1953 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature critic, dies at 80

1953 Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66

1953 Georgia approves U.S. 1st literature censorship board

1951 Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75

1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner

1948 T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature

1947 PC Hooft prize forms for literature

1944 Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian, dies

1944 Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65

1943 Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42

1940 Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48

1938 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)

1937 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71

1936 Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill

1935 Lodewijk Scharpe, Flemish literature historian, dies at 65

1930 Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"

1926 August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70

1926 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature

1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)

1918 Henry Adams, U.S. literature historian (Esther), dies at 80

1918 Jack Morpurgo, American Literature scholar, Leeds University

1917 Gerrit Borgers, literature

1915 Hans [Henri A] Gomperts, Dutch literature, Duck on Attic

1915 Alfred Kazin, U.S. writer/literature critic, Inmost Leaf

1909 [Hans JM] Fernand Lodewick, literature historian

1909 Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian

1909 Rene Etiemble, French literature historian, Parlez-vous Franglais

1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature

1906 John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language and literature

1902 Gerard P M Knuvelder, Dutch literature historian, Vocation, Kitty

1900 Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian

1900 James Sutherland, English literature scholar/actor, Rob Roy 1953

1899 George Calinescu, Romania, literature, Enigma Otilei

1899 Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer, Nobel Literature 1968

1897 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature, About the Laugh

1893 Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86

1892 Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer

1887 Francis Bull, Norway, writer, Norsk literature historian

1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73

1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73

1886 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45

1886 Ernst R. Curtius, German literature historian

1885 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic

1881 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73

1878 Paul Hazard, French literature historian

1875 Desiderius A. Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian

1873 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian

1872 Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies

1871 Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/president of Romania

1869 Lodewijk Scharpe, Flemish literature historian

1865 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian, Motion

1859 Karl Bleibtreu, German author, Revolution of Literature

1855 Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian

1855 August Sauer, Austria literature historian, Euphorion

1854 Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies

1848 Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies

1841 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian

1840 John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77

1813 Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian, Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti

1807 Cornelis E van Koetsveld, vicar/literature

1807 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet and literature critic

1756 Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literature, Disease of Scientists

1711 Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies

1684 Ludvig Baron Holberg, founder, Danish and Norwegian literature

1644 Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar/literature, David's holy saint graduals

1604 Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58



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