The average age of Nobel Prize Winners in Literature is sixty-two. In only one case—that of William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet—did the Prize money release the author from the handicap of ...

and William Butler Yeats, Nobel prize-winning poet. But what of their sisters, the forgotten Yeats women? Sisters Elizabeth and Lily Yeats share a fleeting derogatory reference in James Joyce's ...

“The Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates”—William Butler Yeats ... The second event in the series, on January 29, focused on W.B. Yeats with literary critic and cultural historian Lauren Arrington, ...

From Stockholm announcement was made that the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1923 had been awarded to the Irish poet-author, William Butler Yeats. Since The Wanderings of Oisin (a narrative poem ...

Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his work 'Gitanjali'. His ...