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John Galsworthy

Also known as John Sinjohn

English novelist and playwright (1867–1933)

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John Galsworthy was born in 1867 and died in 1933. He wrote under the pseudonym John Sinjohn. His body of work includes 36 items.

He received the Nobel Prize in Literature once. His work is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection. It is also included in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Known for

Island Wives — Lester1922
School Days — Mr. Hadley1921

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1932
“for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: John
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Place of birth: London
Place of death: London
Occupation: prose writer
Position held: president
Educated at: New College
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Nobel Prize in Literature
Field of work: prose
Image: Photo Portrait of the British writer John Galsworthy correcting a manuscript 1930 - Touring Club Italiano 11 5336.jpg

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Commons category: John Galsworthy
date of birth: 1867-00-00
date of death: 1933-01-31
topic's main category: Category:John Galsworthy
manner of death: natural causes
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Literature
pseudonym: John Sinjohn
place of burial: Highgate Cemetery
writing language: English language
Commons Creator page: John Galsworthy
ethnic group: English people
has written for: The Atlantic
P8168: Cambridge University Cricket Club
has works in the collection: Anne Frank House

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to John Galsworthy, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

John Galsworthy (/ˈɡɔːlzwɜːrði/; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga (1906, 1920, 1921), and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Born to a prosperous upper-middle-class family, Galsworthy was destined for a career as a lawyer, but found it uncongenial and turned instead to writing. He was thirty before his first book was published in 1897, and did not achieve real success until 1906, when The Man of Property, the first of his novels about the Forsyte family was published. In the same year his first play, The Silver Box was staged in London. As a dramatist, he became known for plays with a social message, reflecting, among other themes, the struggle of workers against exploitation, the use of solitary confinement in prisons, the repression of women, jingoism and the politics and morality of war.

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John Galsworthy