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William Butler Yeats
Full Name of the recipient | William Butler Yeats |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Year of Award | 1923 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation |
Place of Birth | Dublin, Ireland IRL |
Date of Birth | 13 June 1865 |
Age at the time of Award | 57 years |
Place of Death | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France FRA |
Date of Death | 28 January 1939 |