Nobel Prize in Literature 1938
Nobel Prize in Literature 1938
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Pearl Buck
Prize share: 1/1
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 was awarded to Pearl Buck "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"
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