"for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."
Date
6 October 1938 (announcement)
10 December 1938 (ceremony)
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by
Swedish Academy
First awarded
1901
Website
Official website
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The 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American author Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."[1] Buck was the first female American to be awarded the Nobel Prize and the third American recipient following Eugene O'Neill in 1936 and Sinclair Lewis in 1930. She was also the fourth woman to receive the prize.[2]
^The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 nobelprize.org
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