Premise: George Bernard Shaw ( [ ˈdʒɔːrdʒ _ ` bɜːrˌnərd_ʃɔː ] 26 July 1856 -- 2 November 1950 ) , known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw , was an Irish playwright ( who held both British and Irish citizenship ) , critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre , culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond . He was the first person to be awarded both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award , receiving the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature and sharing the 1938 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film version of Pygmalion . Born in Dublin , Shaw moved to London in 1873 , where he established himself as a writer and novelist . Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw , named after a Greek mythological figure .
Hypothesis: George Bernard Shaw went his whole life without learning how to read and write.
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