Awards & Winners

Salvatore Quasimodo

Date of Birth 20-August-1901
Place of Birth Modica
(Sicily, Province of Ragusa, Italy)
Nationality Italy
Profession Author, Poet
Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.

Awards by Salvatore Quasimodo

Check all the awards nominated and won by Salvatore Quasimodo.

1959


Nobel Prize in Literature
(for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times)