Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Literature Prize 2021
- 07-Oct-2021
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, born in Zanzibar and active in England “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but […]
Free transport for readers of Nobel laureate
- 12-Oct-2019
Public transport will be free through the weekend for anyone carrying a book by Poland's newly minted Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk
Austrian Handke and Poland’s Tokarczuk win Nobel literature prizes
- 10-Oct-2019
Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday and the 2018 award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk
British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize
- 05-Oct-2017
OSLO: British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel “The Remains of the Day”, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said. The 62-year-old, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world,” the Academy wrote in its citation. Ishiguro has written […]
Music icon Bob Dylan wins Nobel Literature Prize
- 13-Oct-2016
STOCKHOLM: US music legend Bob Dylan won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award in a decision that stunned prize watchers. Dylan, 75, was honoured “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” the Swedish Academy said. The choice was met by gasps and […]
Nobel Literature Prize announcement pushed back to October 13
- 01-Oct-2016
STOCKHOLM: Good things come to those who wait, and the saying may ring true for the next Nobel literature laureate as the prize will be announced on October 13, a little later than usual, the Swedish Academy said Friday. The prestigious Nobel Literature Prize, first awarded in 1901, has traditionally been announced on a Thursday, […]
Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Literature Prize
- 08-Oct-2015
STOCKHOLM: Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich on Thursday won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said.