In his acceptance speech for the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah extolled storytelling that sees what “the hard domineering eye cannot see, what makes people, apparently small in ...

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 ...

Discover 10 Nobel Prize-winning books that belong on your shelf. These masterpieces offer powerful storytelling, deep themes, ...

In October 1970, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.” ...

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: ...

Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, 64, is the recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Often compared to Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) and Harold Pinter (1930-2008) by the European and ...

When I won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023, I received a personal letter from Pope Francis, very moving, written by ...

This week’s reviews feature something for all genre lovers, from a post-colonial coming-of-age story to an anthology of the ...

Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more ...

Hundreds of South Korean writers, including Nobel laureate Han Kang, demanded Tuesday the removal of impeached President Yoon ...