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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938

"for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"
Pearl Buck
Pearl Buck
(pen-name of Pearl Walsh, née Sydenstricker)
USA
b. 1892
d. 1973
 
 
 
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