In 2016, Bob Dylan stunned the world by winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his groundbreaking contributions to American songwriting. The decision sparked fierce debate—was Dylan a ...

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 ...

marking a remarkable return to the literary spotlight following the author’s historic Nobel Prize in Literature. “Light and Thread,” released at 11 a.m. on Wednesday by Munhakdongne Publishing Group, ...

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 2016, Dylan also became the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, which he said left him “speechless.” During the Nobel Banquet ceremony on December 10 ...

At age 87, Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o hopes he can summon the strength for at least one more book. He would call it ...

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.