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 ...

When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October last year, her books flew off the shelves, and South Korea’s ...

STOCKHOLM--South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical ...

The Nobel Academy guards its deliberations over prize winners for 50 years, and events in 1974 help explain why. That year, the two winners of the Nobel for literature were members of the Literature ...

Professor Luke has twenty years of research experience within the same discipline and has received a double nomination for the prestigious 2025 Nobel Prizes in Peace and Literature. Professor Luke ...

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: ...

South Korean novelist Han Kang was introduced to most English readers by her 2007 book, “The Vegetarian” (published in ...

A wave of Korean literature is set to reach English-language readers in 2025, ranging from a new novel by a Nobel Prize laureate to science fiction bestsellers and heart-warming healing fiction.

The 17th edition of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature comes to an end on Monday in Dubai, reaffirming its place as ...

Nobel laureate and renowned novelist Wole Soyinka was presented with the Sharjah Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award.