Meet Han Kang, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by The Royal Swedish Academy.
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László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature: ‘My Hungary is that of language, not of hussars’

The author of ‘Satantango’ speaks in Barcelona about his country, the Shoah, his favorite authors and the filmmaker Béla Tarr ...

These Are the Winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes

Recipients of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, literature, peace, and economic sciences will be announced over the coming week. Winners are given a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award of about $1 ...
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Nobel Prize in literature goes to South Korea's Han Kang for ‘intense poetic prose'

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the ...
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How to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this week. It went to the Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai. I've been covering the prize announcement for more than a decade now, and I ...

Japanese Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo's early unpublished works emerge

Early unpublished works by a Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature have come to light. Two pieces written by the late Oe Kenzaburo in the 1950s are believed to be the cornerstones of his ...
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Shots, geopolitics, and pea soup: this is how the next Nobel Prize in Literature will really be chosen: "No, the best is not always chosen"

At the same moment the Secretary-General of the Swedish Academy named László Krasznahorkai, the process to choose his successor began. Take a journey into the decision-making minds of the most ...