Nobel laureate
Pearl Buck — Nobel Prize in Literature 1938
“for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces”
Prize motivation
“for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces”
The Swedish Academy awarded Pearl Buck the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.
Other laureates of the 1930s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).