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Knowledge Nugget of the day: Nihon Hidankyo
October 18, 2024 12:04 pm
Recently, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo. What is Nihon Hidankyo? Why has it been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize? What are Hibakusha’s testimonies? Here's everything that you need to know.
The Third Edit: Han Kang, recipient of 2024 Literature Nobel, a writer who gets under the skin
October 11, 2024 12:25 am
In the decision of the Swedish Academy, long accused of a male, Eurocentric bias, to award the Prize to a writer who peels back the thin skin of civilisation to lay bare the injustice underneath, there is an odd, jagged-edged poetry — one that might well have flowed out of Han’s own pen
South Korean author Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024; know more about her work
October 10, 2024 5:48 pm
Each year, since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been announced for achievements in the sciences, literature and peace.
Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her 'intense poetic prose' exposing fragility of life
October 10, 2024 5:09 pm
Nobel Prize in Literature 2024: Literature laureate Han Kang’s physical empathy for extreme life stories is reinforced by her increasingly charged metaphorical style.
Nobel Prize in Literature: In Norwegian laureate Jon Fosse's 'slow prose', shades of Ibsen and Derrida
October 06, 2023 10:35 am
While Fosse is today “one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognised for his prose”, the committee said.
The Essential Jon Fosse: What to read by the Nobel Laureate
October 07, 2023 2:30 pm
Mapping the literary career of Jon Fosse, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, through five of his works
Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
October 05, 2023 6:20 pm
In recent years, the prizes have gone to French author Annie Ernaux (2022), Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021), American poet and essayist Louise Glück ( 2020) and Austrian writer Peter Handke ( 2019).
Literature Nobel for Annie Ernaux: What explains the enduring appeal of memoirs?
October 09, 2022 4:56 pm
The Nobel Prize in Literature this year was awarded to French memoirist Annie Ernaux. As a literary genre, memoirs differ from autobiographies in that they are supposed to be a ‘slice of life’ and are more introspective in nature.
Who is Annie Ernaux, the French writer who has been awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature?
October 06, 2022 5:29 pm
"Annie Ernaux manifestly believes in the liberating force of writing. Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean," the Nobel Prize website noted
French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature
October 06, 2022 5:12 pm
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE PHOTOS
As Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize 2022 in Literature, a look at the past winners of the prestigious global award
October 06, 2022 4:38 pm
Take a look at the past winners of Nobel Prize for Literature
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