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Links to other sites Video From the Merv Griffin Show 1966: Pearl S. Buck talks with Merv Griffin about her newest book, her charity work helping Asian orphans fathered by US servicemen, communism in China and her new book ideas.

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The Nobel Prize laureates are required “to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded according to the Nobel Foundation statutes. The lecture should be given before, or no later than six months after, the Nobel Prize award ceremony, which takes place in Stockholm or, in…

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Nobel Prize lecture

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The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded **num_prize_lit** times to **num_award_lit** Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and **last_awarded_year_lit**. Click on the links to get more information.

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Biographical

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent…

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