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French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, was on Thursday awarded the Nobel...

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 was awarded to Wole Soyinka "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence"

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 1/3 of the prize money was allocated to the main fund and 2/3 was allocated to the special fund of this prize section.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1937 was awarded to Roger Martin du Gard "for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as...

Named after Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Prize in Literature honors writers with "the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency" in the field.

His works deal with the ambiguous role played during the Holocaust by ordinary Frenchmen, including their role in deporting Jews to Nazi camps.

Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic "The Golden Notebook," won the Nobel Prize for literature...

Oct 3, 2025 - Caring about the Nobel Prize in literature is cool. Betting on the outcome is even cooler. 

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, whose best known novels include "The Remains of the Day" and "Never Let...

Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature.

Working with Han Kang, I experienced a writer who respected translation as its own process of writing.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1985 was awarded to Claude Simon "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness...

Canadian author Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her tales of the struggles, loves and tragedies of women in small-town Canada.

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Jul 17, 2025 - It is the 1990s. Growing up in Zanzibar, three very different young people - Karim, Fauzia and Badar - are coming of age, and dreaming of great possibilities

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The Swedish Academy, plunged into crisis over allegations of rape and sexual assault by the husband of one its members, may postpone the 2018...

Oct 31, 2025 - Learn more about ‘Writing Life’ Director Claire Simon on Trusting Young People and Why Nobel Literature Prize Winner Annie Ernaux ‘Is Just Like George...

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 was awarded to William Golding "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and...

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 was awarded to Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the...

Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025 In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of...

BUDAPEST - Hungarian novelist and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz has won the 2002 Nobel Literature Prize for more than a half-century of writings that

Bob Dylan, 75, was honoured for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1908 was awarded to Rudolf Christoph Eucken "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought,...

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was awarded to Jon Fosse, "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable"

Han is the first South Korean and the 18th woman to win the literature prize

The academy on Thursday honored Bob Dylan for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." He is the first American to win...

People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism...