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 ...

The two don’t often overlap. Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw was the first person to win both awards. He was selected or the Nobel prize for Literature in 1925 for his play, Saint Joan which was ...

She connects the victims of atrocities with those who remember. Her novel “We Do Not Part” is now out in an English language ...

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 ...

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: ...

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

By Megan Walsh When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature late last year – for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”– it was ...

Han has attracted a wider audience, both at home and abroad, since being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in October. An English translation of the novel set on Jeju, “We Do Not Part ...