Saturday, April 19, 2014

Irish Thought for April 17...

Irish Writers

George Bernard Shaw

The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw started his career writing literary and music criticism, although he soon had great success as a dramatist, with more than 60 plays to his credit.  Shaw's dramas have starkly sociopolitical themes, but with a strong sense of humor.  He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, and in 1938, he won an Oscar for his screenplay adaptation of his own play, Pygmalion.  Shaw is the only person to have won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.

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