Peter Handke, the controversial winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, once called for the award to be abolished, telling Austrian media in 2014 that the prize brings its winner "false ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang ... Much of Han’s work poses the question, voiced by a ...

Nobel Prize for Literature panel members have defended their decision to give this year's award to controversial Austrian author Peter Handke. The choice has been criticised because of Handke's ...

Munro is only the thirteenth woman to win the prize since its inception in 1901. The Nobel Foundation said they had been unable to reach her and had left a message on her phone. Photo: Reuters ...

This year it is highly probably that two authors will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Prize for 1949 was held over because the members of the Swedish Academy could not agree on any ...

In contrast, American John Goodenough was the oldest to become a Nobel laureate when he won the Prize in Chemistry in 2019, at the age ... And in 1931, the Nobel Literature Prize was awarded ...

In 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace – the Nobel ...

[AFP] Author Han Kang on Thursday became the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for work characterised by the correspondence between mental and physical torment as well as ...