Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1922-28)

120 Nobels Challenge * WEEK 4 * (1922-1928): rough beasts slouching

“What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” wrote W.B. Yeats, winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Since 1901, 120 writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Some are forgotten. Many remain famous. A few became notorious for reasons that might surprise you and change your understanding of modern…