Nobel laureate
Sinclair Lewis — Nobel Prize in Literature 1930
“for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters”
Prize motivation
“for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters”
The Swedish Academy awarded Sinclair Lewis the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters.
Other laureates of the 1930s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).