Churchill wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
On 10 December, Sir Winston Churchill, third Chancellor of the University, receives the Nobel Prize for Literature. In his presentation speech, Sigfrid Siwertz of the Swedish Academy said:
'Very seldom have great statesmen and warriors also been great writers. One thinks of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, and even Napoleon, whose letters to Josephine during the first Italian campaign certainly have passion and splendour. Churchill's political and literary achievements are of such magnitude that one is tempted to resort to portray him as a Caesar who also has the gift of Cicero's pen. Never before has one of history's leading figures been so close to us by virtue of such an outstanding combination. A literary prize is intended to cast lustre over the author, but here it is the author who gives lustre to the prize.'
Read more about Churchill in the following years: 1929, 1929 (N.B. two entries), 1941, 1945, 1949, 1951 and 1954,
