Tanzania's Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in literature

Oct 07, 2021

Stockholm [Sweden], October 7 : Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.

2025 Nobel Literature goes to Hungarian novelist Krasznahorkai

Oct 09, 2025

the late American essayist Susan Sontag dubbed the "contemporary master of the apocalypse," Krasznahorkai's novels - often set in shivering Central European villages -...

French writer Annie Ernaux awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in literature

Oct 06, 2022

Stockholm [Sweden], October 6 : The Royal Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature to French writer Annie Ernaux for...

Nobel Literature 2023 awarded to Norwegian Jon Fosse, author says "overwhelmed, grateful"

Oct 05, 2023

"I see this as an award to the literature that first and foremost aims to be literature, without other considerations" Fosse said.

Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 awarded to Louise Gluck for her 'unmistakable poetic voice'

Oct 08, 2020

Stockholm [Sweden], October 8 : The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 on Thursday was awarded to the American poet Louise Gluck "for her unmistakable...

Nobel Literature goes to South Korean Han Kang, 8th women to be awarded prestigious prize

Oct 10, 2024

In her oeuvre, Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human...