What is Twentieth-century English literature?
[[Modernism]] is a major literary movement of the first part of the twentieth-century. The word [[Postmodern]] literature is used to describe certain tendencies in the literature procuded after the World War II. Irish writers were especially important in the twentieth-century, including [[James Joyce]] and later [[Samuel Beckett]], both central figures in the [[Modernist]] movement. Americans, like poets [[T. S. Eliot]] and [[Ezra Pound]] and novelist [[William Faulkner]], were other important modernists. British modernists include [[Joseph Conrad]], [[E. M. Forster]], [[Dorothy Richardson]], [[Virginia Woolf]], and [[D. H. Lawrence]]. In the mid-twentieth-century major writers started to appear in the various countries of the British [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]], including several [[Nobel Prize|Nobel]] laureates. ==Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature== {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| *[[Rudyard Kipling]] (1907): UK (born in [[British India]]) *[[Rabindranath Tagore]] (1913): India *[[W. B. Yeats]] (1923): Ireland *[[George Bernard Shaw]] (1925): Ireland *[[Sinclair Lewis]] (1930): US *[[John Galsworthy]] (1932): UK *[[Eugene O'Neill]] (1936): US *[[Pearl S. Buck]] (1938): US *[[T. S. Eliot]] (1948): UK (born in the US) *[[William Faulkner]] (1949): US *[[Bertrand Russell]] (1950): UK *[[Winston Churchill]] (1953): UK *[[Ernest Hemingway]] (1954): US *[[John Steinbeck]] (1962): US *[[Samuel Beckett]] (1969): Ireland (lived in France much of his life) *[[Patrick White]] (1973): Australia *[[Saul Bellow]] (1976): US *[[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] (1978): US (born in Poland) *[[William Golding]] (1983): UK *[[Wole Soyinka]] (1986): Nigeria *[[Joseph Brodsky]] (1987): US (born in Russia) *[[Nadine Gordimer]] (1991): South Africa *[[Derek Walcott]] (1992): St Lucia, West Indies *[[Toni Morrison]] (1993): US *[[Seamus Heaney]] (1995): Ireland *[[V. S. Naipaul]] (2001): UK (born in [[Trinidad]]) *[[J. M. Coetzee]] (2003): South Africa *[[Harold Pinter]] (2005): UK *[[Doris Lessing]] (2007): UK (grew-