British literature fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include "The Forsyte Saga" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of "The Old Wives' Tale" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells
Skanderbeg in literature and art battles against the Ottoman Empire was Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer in "Histori e Skënderbeut" [History of Skanderbeg] published in 1898. A short story "Đurađ Kastriotić Skenderbeg" written by the Serbian writer Stevan Sremac was published in 1909. In The Castle, work written in 1970 by Ismail Kadare, an Albanian writer who was several times candidate for Nobel prize, which refers to Skanderbeg though he is not a protagonist. Skanderbeg is the protagonist of three 18th-century British tragedies: William Havard's "Scanderbeg, A Tragedy" (1733), George Lillo's "The Christian Hero" (1735), and Thomas Whincop's "Scanderbeg, Or, Love and Liberty" (1747).