【题目】Toni Morrison was an American writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her novels.Beloved, Song of Solomonand others explored the way African-Americans search for freedom and identity in a country obsessed with skin color. Morrison was nearly 40 when she published her first nov...
1Canada's Alice Munro, called the "master of the contemporary short story", won the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced Thursday. After that, the Nobel committee said on Twitter that it hadn't been able to contact Munro and left a phone message ...
In every field, from science to diplomacy to literature, African Americans have made their mark. Here is a sampling of some impressive African American achievements and firsts. African American Firsts: Politics and Government Nearly two hundred years of African American achievements in politics and ...
He has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the only British Prime Minister to have won this award. Here are the other famous immigrants Americans who were born in November. Mazie Keiko Hirono (November 3, 1947), Charles Kuen Kao (November 4, 1933), Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (November ...
TheformanddirectionofmodernAmericanliteraturehadclearlybeguntoemergeinthefirstdecadeofthe20thcentury.() A. 对 B. 错 6 【判断题】(10分) ThreeAmericanwriterswontheNobelPrizeforLiteratureduringtheyearsbetweenthetwoworldwars.() A. 对 B. 错 7 【判断题】(10分) Althoughshore-lived,theImagistmovementhada...
The economics award is not a Nobel Prize in the same sense as the medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and peace prizes, which were (9)___ by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in 1895. Sweden’s central bank added the economics prize in 1968 as a (10)___ to Nobel. A. x2-3x-...
Until late in the 20th century, most Americans spent time with people of generations. Now mid-aged Americans may not keep in touch with old people until they are old themselves.That’s because we group people by age. We put our three-year-olds together in day-care center, our 13-year-...
She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015. Svetlana Alexievich represents life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals. Personal experiences have been an important part for her works. She uses interviews to create a picture of a wide range of voices. With ...
1. Yankee or Yank, Yankee Doodle The 1990 Nobel Prize for medicine was won by two Americans. Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002 Translations Spanish / EspañolSelect a language: estadounidensenorteamericano...
Biography John Ernst Steinbeck, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, was born in Salinas, California February 27, 1902. His father, John Steinbeck, served as Monterey County Treasurer for many years. His mother, Olive Hamilton, was a former schoolteacher who developed in him a love of literature....