Nobel Prize in Literature 1936

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936 was awarded to Eugene Gladstone O'Neill "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"

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