"for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"
Date
12 November 1937 (announcement)
10 December 1937 (ceremony)
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by
Swedish Academy
First awarded
1901
Website
Official website
← 1935 ·
Nobel Prize in Literature
· 1937 →
The 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy". The prize was awarded in 1937.[1] He is the second American to become a literature laureate after Sinclair Lewis in 1930.
^"The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936". nobelprize.org.
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