Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary Annotated Gustave Flaubert

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 9 September O. S. 28 August 1828 20 November O. S. 7 November1910, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910 and the fact that he never won is a major Nobel prize controversy.