Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. On 25thJuly 1949 he was welcomed at the Grand Hotel Gardone where he stayed for a long time.