Nobel Prize in Literature: News
11 Oct 2024
Nobel Peace PrizeJapanese organization Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize 2024
Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 on Friday.
10 Oct 2024
South KoreaSouth Korean author Han Kang wins Nobel Literature Prize 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."
05 Oct 2023
Nobel PrizeNobel Prize in Literature awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse
The highly prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable" on Thursday in Stockholm, Sweden.
06 Oct 2022
Nobel PrizeFrench writer Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
Annie Ernaux, a French writer, has won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. She was chosen by The Swedish Academy from a very competitive group that included Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood, among others.
07 Oct 2021
EnglandTanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Literature Prize
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature went to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his "uncompromising and compassionate" works depicting the impact of colonialism, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday.
10 Oct 2019
Nobel PrizeNobel Prize in Literature: Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke win
After a sexual harassment scandal caused the Nobel Prize in Literature to be postponed last year, the Swedish Academy on Thursday announced Nobel Prizes to two authors.
03 Sep 2019
IndiaTeachers' Day 2019: Five greatest Indian teachers of all time
The very thought of teachers takes us down a path of bittersweet nostalgia.
02 Oct 2018
United States of AmericaThree scientists win Nobel prize for Physics for laser research
Three scientists, Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Morou, and Donna Strickland, have been awarded this year's Nobel prize in Physics.
04 May 2018
SwedenNobel prize in Literature cancelled after sexual assault scandal
The Swedish Academy announced, on Friday, about the cancellation of Nobel Prize in Literature this year.
25 Nov 2017
SwedenNobel literature prize-awarding Swedish Academy rattled by sex scandal
A sex scandal has rattled the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize.
05 Oct 2017
Nobel PrizeKazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Literature Prize
62-year-old British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.
