Nobel laureate
T.S. Eliot — Nobel Prize in Literature 1948
“for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”
Prize motivation
“for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”
The Swedish Academy awarded T.S. Eliot the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.
Other laureates of the 1940s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).