Nobel Prize in Literature 1953
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 was awarded to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"
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