Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize for Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors from any corner of the world for outstanding contributions of his/her in the field of literature. Nobel for Literature is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel in 1895.The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10 , the anniversary of Nobel's death. Up to date, there are total 114 Nobel for Literature is given to individuals. All the Nobel laureate has accepted the prize, unless two. When he received the award in 1958, Russian-born Boris Pasternak was forced to publicly reject the award under pressure from the government of the Soviet Union. In 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre made known that he did not wish to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature as he had consistently refused all official honors in the past. First winner of Nobel for Literature (1901) was Sully Prudhomme from France. He got award for his poe
