literature_poet
William Butler Yeats (Nobel Literature 1923)
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. Yeats won the Nobel Literature Prize 1923. Read Feature Article
Ireland (1976-82) 20 Pounds (front) - Portrait of William Butler Yeats
Juan Ramon Jimenez - Nobel Literature 1956 (Banknote Spain)
Juan Ramon Jimenez (Moguer, Spain, 24 December 1881 – Santurce, Puerto Rico, 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. Read Feature Article
Spain (1983) 2,000 Pesetas (front) - Portrait of Juan Ramon Jimemnez
Bjornstjerne Bjornson - Nobel Literature 1903 (Banknote Norway)
Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832 - 1910) was a Norwegian writer and a 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjornson is generally considered as one of "The Great Four" Norwegian writers. Read Feature Article
Norway (1953) 50 Kroners (front) - Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Bertha von Suttner - Nobel Peace 1905 (Banknote Austria)
Bertha von Suttner (1843 - 1914) was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist. She was first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and one of her famous publication was Lay Down Your Arms!). Read Feature Article
Austria (1966) 1,000 Schillings (front) - Portrait of Bertha von Suttner
Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Nobel Literature 1966 (Banknote Israel)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888 - 1970) was a Hebrew nobel prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon. Read Feature Article
Israel (1998) 50 New Sheqalim (front) - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Winston Churchill - Nobel Literature 1953 (Banknote Gibraltar)
Winston Churchill was known chiefly for his leadership of Great Britain during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a noted statesman and orator, winner of Nobel Literature 1953. Read Feature Article
Gibraltar (1995) 50 Pounds - Portrait of Winston Churchill
Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric - Nobel Literature 1961 (Banknote Yugoslavia)
Ivo Andric (1892 - 1975) was a novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature from Yugoslavia Read Feature Article
Yugoslavia (1993) 10,000,000 Dinara (front) - Portrait of Ivo Andric
Gabriela Mistral - Nobel Literature 1945 (Banknote Chile)
Gabriela Mistral a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Read Feature Article
Chile (1996) 5,000 Pesos (front) - Portrait of Gabriela Mistral
Spain's Jose Echegaray - Nobel Literature 1904 (Banknote Spain)
Jose Echegaray(April 19, 1832 Madrid, Spain –September 4,1916)was a Spanish civil engineer, dramatist and awarded Nobel Prize Literature in 1904. Read Feature Article
Spain (1971) 1,000 Pesetas (front) - Portrait of Jose Echegary
Selma Lagerlof - Nobel Literature 1909 (Banknote Sweden)
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof (20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read Feature Article
Sweden (1992) 20 Krona (front) - Portrait of Selma Lagerlof