Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in 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 was one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1959, announced October 22, 1959. Salvatore Quasimodo, “for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times”. Salvatore Quasimodo: born 1901, Modica, Italy. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).