The Nobel Prize in Literature 1976
Awarded on: 1976-10-21
"for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"
Saul Bellow
Born: 1915-06-10 in Montreal, Canada
Gender: male
Field: American writer (1915–2005)
Biography
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.