Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s recent win of the 2025 Holberg Prize has once again highlighted the contributions of women in ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “Theft” examines the lives of an expanding family of characters in Tanzania in the late 20th century.

Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is regarded as one of Greece’s major poets and a major exponent of romantic ...

The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...

Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah on running out of money – and his take on the toppling of statues of controversial ...

Vaim, translated by Damion Searls and slated for October 7, is the first in a triptych set in the fictional Norwegian fishing ...

Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin on Sunday said merging traditional and modern literature, and bringing Sangam literature ...

Burns for installation at Boston College Ireland. A four-week webinar series produced by Boston College is exploring the lives and works of the four Irishborn winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: ...

A TV screen shows an image of the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, South Korean writer Han Kang, during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 10, 2024 ...

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...