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Which four of these Irish writers received the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
He was a playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His major works were written in French between 1946 and 1950.
He was born on November 30, 1667 in Dublin and died in Dublin on October 19, 1745. He began to write his most famous work, Gulliver's Travels, in 1721 and finished it in 1725. It was published anonymously in 1726 and was an instant success.
He is best known for his experimental use of language and his exploration of new literary methods.
He was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin, and died on November 30, 1900 in Paris. He was a poet and a playwright. He was notorious for his style of dress and odd behavior. He was convicted of homosexual practices and served two years from 1895 to 1897. His works include "The Importance of Being Earnest", "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Lady Windermere's Fan".
He was born in 1939 and grew up as a country boy in County Derry where much of his poetry is still grounded. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. He has frequently read his poetry throughout Ireland, UK and the US. His works include "Door into the Dark", "Death of a Naturalist", "Seeing Things".
His works include "Ulysses" (1922), "A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" (1916), "Dubliners" and "Finnegans Wake" (1939).
He was born in Ireland in 1906. He left for Paris when he was 22. There, he fell in with a group of avant-garde artists, including James Joyce. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1969. He died in Paris in 1989. His works include "Waiting For Godot", "Endgame", "Happy Days", and "Krapp's Last Tape".
He used lots of pseudonyms such as : Isaac Bickerstaff, A Dissenter, A Person of Quality, A Person of Honour, M.B. Drapier, T.R.D.J.S.D.O.P.I.I.
Both a poet and a playwright, he was born near Dublin in 1871 and died in 1909. One of his last comedies, "The Playboy of the Western World" (1907), created a furor of resentment among Irish patriots stung by his bitter humor.
He was a dramatist, a literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. He was a freethinker, a supporter of women's rights, advocate of equality of income. He supported abolition of private property, radical change in the voting system, campaigned for the simplification of spelling, and the reform of the English alphabet. In 1925, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He accepted the honour but refused the money. He is also remembered for his great sense of humor.
He is one of the few writers whose greatest works were written after the award of the Nobel Prize which he received in 1922. His later works "The Tower" (1928), "The Winding Stair and Other Poems" (1933), and "Last Poems and Plays" (1940), made him one of the outstanding and most influential twentieth-century poets writing in English.
In 1909, he lives in Trieste (Italy) with his family. By the end of October, he leaves alone for Dublin on a business trip, and stays there until the end of December. He makes a pact with his wife Nora to write to each other erotic letters (which were intended to accomplish sexual gratification in him and inspire the same in her). The letters of his wife disappeared, but the ones he wrote were published in 1975 as the "dirty" letters.
His greatest and most popular plays include "Man and Superman" (1903), "Major Barbara" (1905), which postulates that poverty is the cause of all evil; "Androcles and the Lion" (1912) and "Pygmalion" (1913), which satirizes the English class system through the story of a cockney girl's transformation into a lady at the hands of a speech professor.
His grave is in Père Lachaise in Paris.