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George Bernard Shaw was a Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honour but refused the money in 1925.
George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin , as the son of George Carr Shaw, who was in the wholesale grain trade, and Lucinda Elisabeth (Gurly) Shaw, the daughter of an impoverished landowner, who was 16-years younger than her husband.
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