Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump that he recommended him for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.

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The Nobel prize in Literature 2024 has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life ...

Every year, the world of literature waits in anticipation for the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Every year, the same names make the headlines — only for them to be proven wrong.

The prize for literature is awarded for an author’s full body of work, not a specific text. Like all those awarded the Nobel Prize, Kang has won 11m krona ($1.1 million) for the prize.

The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has also been male-dominated — Han is only the ...

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 traumas ...

The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has also been male-dominated — Han is only the ...

Swedish Academy’s permanent secretary Mats Malm announces the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, South Korean writer Han Kang at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, Thursday Oct ...