Double honor: These are the only two people to win both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award
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 ...
Ontario short story festival named after Alice Munro coming to an end
An Ontario literary festival named after author Alice Munro is coming to an end. It follows revelations last summer that ...
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Choosing the next Nobel Laureate
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 ...
A Nobel laureate who mines her country’s nightmares, and her own
She connects the victims of atrocities with those who remember. Her novel “We Do Not Part” is now out in an English language ...
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Han Kang, Nobel Prize for Literature 2024
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 ...
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A Nobel laureate who mines her country’s nightmares, and her own
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 ...