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When Murakami reverses Kafka’s metamorphosis, he is not mocking it; he is completing it. (In pic L-R: Murakami, Krasznahorkai and Kafka)

Kafka's curse, Murakami's mercy: A tale of two Samsas and their humanity

October 27, 2025 9:21 pm

Kafka, Murakami and Krasznahorkai, in their own idioms, insist that alienation is not the end of being human but the very terrain where humanity must be reimagined.

For decades, readers have celebrated Haruki Murakami's melancholy magic while the Nobel looks the other way.

Why Haruki Murakami is the perennial almost Nobel Laureate

October 27, 2025 3:40 pm

Murakami romanticises solitude, turns the mundane mystical, and remains the Nobel’s most faithful almost-winner.

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‘More than a catastrophe’: How László Krasznahorkai reacted to winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

November 13, 2025 8:07 pm

The Hungarian novelist speaks from Frankfurt about his surprise at winning the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature remains the world’s most anticipated literary awards.

Everything you need to know about the Nobel Prize in Literature

October 17, 2025 12:30 pm

Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: Facts, history, controversies, and who might win this year

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Tagore and Yeats: How a Nobel-winning friendship fell apart

January 02, 2026 6:56 pm

On his 160th birth anniversary, revisiting Irish Nobel laureate WB Yeats' complex relationship with Rabindranath Tagore, who he first hailed as a mystic sage and championed for the Nobel, only to later dismiss him for “wrecking his reputation”

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Nobelist Annie Ernaux draws hundreds to New York bookstore

October 11, 2022 3:42 pm

Greeted by an ovation from a standing-room-only audience that included fellow authors Garth Greenwell and Rachel Kushner, the 82-year-old Ernaux spoke at length and at an energetic pace, through her translator, about her career and the writing process

The French Ambassador writes on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux: Her stories could be anyone's stories

October 12, 2022 4:37 pm

Emmanuel Lenain writes: Annie Ernaux uses personal events as a way to speak about broader social issues such as class differences, patriarchy, and social injustices.

'Absolutely delighted': Publishers, authors congratulate Abdulrazak Gurnah for winning Nobel Prize for Literature

October 07, 2021 5:25 pm

"The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents," the academy tweeted

Nobel panel to announce 2021 prize for literature

October 07, 2021 3:38 pm

Winners are famously hard to predict. This year's favourites, according to British bookmakers, include Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o, French writer Annie Ernaux, Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Canada's Margaret Atwood and Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid

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There are always lots of other people behind a success: Olga Tokarczuk

June 24, 2021 5:24 pm

"The prizes treat the laureates as individuals by ascribing one hundred percent of the merit to them when in fact there are lots of people behind their success: those who support, help and inspire," said Olga Tokarczuk as part of her Banquet Speech.