Han’s win has created a sensation in South Korea, with the websites of major bookstores and publishing houses crashing
Brittle Paper’s 50 Notable African Books is the product of extensive year-round reportage
Names tossed about in the speculation include Caribbean-American author Jamaica Kincaid, Canadian poet Anne Carson, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Hungary’s Peter Nadas and American novelist Thomas Pynchon.
Behind JM Coetzee, the writer lauded for his ‘wonderfully brave, bold mind’ , is John Coetzee, the quiet man
A new documentary examines the ‘Beloved’ author’s wider political and artistic signficance
"Her literary contributions relentlessly acknowledged, humanised and canonised the many variations of black femmehood"
The foundation said the reason had to do with a crisis within the Swedish Academy, the institution that is responsible for selecting the award winner
Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize for literature speech was read by Azita Raji, the United States ambassador to Sweden
Dario Fo – actor, director, playwright, singer, activist, jester and satirist – exposed abusive systems of power
Should we make the printed page the standard of what counts as literature?
The singer-songwriter has always stood for a craftsmanship and artistry that make his Nobel deserved and unsurprising.
Regarded as the voice of a generation for his influential songs from the 1960s onwards, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in a surprise decision
SinceToni Morrison (1993), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) and Saul Bellow (1976), American authors have got short shrift from the Nobel.
Belarussian Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel prize for literature for her thousands of oral histories that map the implosion of the Soviet Union.
A trio of novellas by this year’s Nobel winner, Patrick Modiano, are bewilderingly inconclusive.
The Nobel Prize-winning British author Doris Lessing has died at the age of 94.
Now that Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her previously low profile in South Africa is bound to change.
Canadian Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her contribution towards the short story genre.
Novelist Haruki Murakami, known for works such as "Norwegian Wood" and "1Q84", appears to be the front-runner to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The 2012 Nobel prize for literature has been awarded to the Chinese writer Mo Yan.
The Swedish Academy has responded to accusations of insularity in recent years by awarding the 2011 Nobel prize for literature to one of their own.
Trained psychologist and poet Tomas Tranströmer has won this year’s Nobel Prize for literature for exploring human identity and spiritual dimensi
Peruvian-born writer and one-time presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday.
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Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller took the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, beating longstanding favourite Amos Oz.
German-Romanian writer Herta Müller is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009. Müller has been an outsider since birth.
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He might not be as well known as some of his contemporaries, but it is not surprising that JMG Le Clézio has been awarded the coveted prize.
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for his poetic adventure and ”sensual ecstasy”.