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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948

"for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot
United Kingdom
b. 1888
(in St. Louis, MO, USA)
d. 1965
 
 
 
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