NOBEL PRIZES
LITERATURE AWARD TO SINCLAIR LEWIS PreM Awociition—By Telegraph—Copyright. STOCKHOLM, November 5. (Received November 6, at 10 a.m.) The literature prize for 1930 was awarded-to Mr Sinclair Lewis. The Nobel prizes are awarded from the income of a fund bequeathed to trustees by the Swedish scientist, Alfred Nobel, tho inventor of dynamite, who died in 1896, leaving a fortune of about £1,750,000 Among those who received the literature award in later years are W. B. Yeats (1923), G. B. Shaw (1925), Henri Bergson (1927), Sigrid Undset (1928), and Thomas Mann (Germany. 1929). . [Mr Sinclair Lewis. _ American author, was born, in 1885. Ho was educated at Yale University. Ho was first a reporter on the ‘ Nerv Haven Journal and Courier,’ and the San Francisco • Bulletin,’ then successively assistant editor and editor of the • Transatlantic Tales ’ magazine. He was later literarv adviser to the publishers, Messrs . Stokes and Horan, New York., His first book ‘ Qur Mr Wrenn/ was pulbished iu 1914. -Then followed ‘The Trail of the Hawk’ ‘The Job,’ ’Main Street,’ ‘Rabbit, “Martin Arrow smith,’ ‘Elmer Gantry ‘ The Man Who Knew Coolidgc,’ and ‘ Hods worth.’]
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Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 11
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185NOBEL PRIZES Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 11
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