Samuel Beckett was an Irish poet, writer and theatre director. He is considered as a key figure of Modernism and of the Theatre of the Absurd, offering a tragicomic view on human existence. He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American-English poet, leader of the Modernist movement. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet and politician. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He died in 1973, probably killed on orders of Augusto Pinochet. Neruda wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, love poems and political manifestos, like Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), Residence on …
James Joyce was an Irish writer and poet, best known for Ulysses (1922). He contributed to the modernist avant-garde.
Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet. He is considered as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers due to his mystical, lyrical and existential themes and style. Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1922) are among his most famous works.
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet. He was interested in occultism and spiritualism, as well as in realism. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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