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 ...

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 ...

Here is a look at the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature, which was awarded on Thursday to Chinese writer Mo Yan, 57, who with "hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

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 ...