Discover 10 Nobel Prize-winning books that belong on your shelf. These masterpieces offer powerful storytelling, deep themes, ...

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 ...

French author Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature this year for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman to explore life ...

The first novel from Abdulrazak Gurnah since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021, the seeds of Theft are sown in ...

The birds are out! The flowers are budding! And my picnic blanket is officially rolling out! There’s nothing quite like the ...

When I finish, I’m going to read a novel by Ian McEwan, since I’m several books behind with him ... But having won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro, I suspect, can tolerate ...

By Alex Marshall Reporting from London The majority of the books nominated ... novels on the list. Many literary critics have long touted Cartarescu as a potential Nobel Prize laureate, and ...

Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more ...

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

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 ...

Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss during the colonization of East Africa called Afterlives. He's back with a new ...