Only one of the 13 titles nominated for the prestigious award for fiction translated into English is more than 300 pages long ...

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 ...

Hailed as a “masterpiece” by reviewers and fellow writers in the Spanish-speaking world, Minimosca is the third novel by ...

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 ...

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 ... author of the 2010 book W.B. Yeats, the Abbey ...

When she was awarded the Nobel Prize last year, Han Kang refused to ... The survivors she wrote about bleed into her consciousness. The book is no longer an object that she has merely created ...

When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October last year, her books flew off the shelves, and South Korea’s publishing industry saw a rare surge. But within a month, the momentum had ...