Kang’s effortless storytelling is a victory for highlighting the female oppression in South Korea and is well-deserving of its Nobel Prize in literature.

Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel prize-winning author who warned against the dangers of nuclear power and became known as a standard bearer of postwar literature, died of natural causes in the early hours ...

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 ...

I mention nine years gone as a point of comparison because that is when the International Booker Prize changed its model from a biennial full-career mini-Nobel to an annual single-title award for ...

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: ...

In reviews, we read Abdulrazak Gurnah’s new novel, his first since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021, a collection of contemporary Tamil stories, true love stories from Kashmir and more.

On March 5, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee announced that 338 candidates have been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations—a drastic increase ...

Victor Ambros (l) and Gary Ruvkun (r) share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their ...

“This year, we are proud to award the Gotham Book Prize to two outstanding works of non-fiction that combine rigorous ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of University of Copenhagen ...

OSLO—The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony gave both Norwegian and Japanese citizens an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of making “orizuru” folded-paper cranes, a symbol of prayers for peace ...