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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953

"for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
United Kingdom
b. 1874
d. 1965
 
 
 
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