This post may be more useful for English teachers but I thought it worth noting here. The US has had only 11 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature from 1901 until 2007. They are as follows: Toni Morrison in 1993, Joseph Brodsky in 1987, Czeslaw Milosz in 1980, Isaac Bashevis Singer 1978, Saul Below in 1976, John Steinbeck in 1962, Ernest Hemingway in 1954, William Faulkner in 1949, Pearl S. Buck in 1938, Eugene O'Neill in 1936, and Sinclair Lewis in 1930.
(Source: Internet "Powells.com/prizes/nobel.html".
There is only one country with more winners: France with 13.
ReplyDeleteAmerican-born T.S. Eliot won the Nobel for Literature in 1948, but he was a British subject by the time of his award.
For all subjects, the United States has the most Nobel prizes, by far. However, if you consider prizes per capita, the U.S. comes in at 17th.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_per_capita