In 1948, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to four writers: T.S. Eliot, Elias Canetti, Hermann Hesse, and William Butler Yeats. T.S. Eliot was an American-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic who wrote 'The Waste Land' and 'Four Quartets'. Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born British novelist, playwright, and essayist who wrote 'Auto-da-Fe' and 'Crowds and Power'. Hermann Hesse was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter who wrote 'Steppenwolf' and 'SIDDHARTHA'. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist who wrote 'The Tower' and 'The Winding Stair'.