Nobel Prize For Literature

Nobel Prize for Literature 2018 winner Olga Tokarczuk looks forward to a new form of fiction in a 'differentiated, divided' world

Olga Tokarczuk is the 2018 Nobel literature laureate. Her prize was announced only two months ago because the Swedish Academy postponed naming a winner last year due to internal turmoil connected with a sex abuse scandal.

Nobel Prize for Literature for 2018, 2019 awarded to Poland's Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke, respectively

The Nobel Prize for 2018 was awarded to Tokarczuk "for her narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life" a representative for the Academy said. The official noted that 2019 Literature Laureate Handke's "influential work with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and specificity of human experience."

Toni Morrison, a giant of American literature, perfected a confluence of lyricism and no-nonsense truthtelling

Beloved, Jazz and 1997’s Paradise form Toni Morrison’s ‘black history’ trilogy, and are basically required reading for students of American literature.

Israeli author Amos Oz dies of cancer: 79-year-old was vocal supporter of two-state solution for Palestine conflict

Amos Oz, Israel’s best-known author and an outspoken supporter of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, died of cancer at the age of 79 on Friday, his daughter said.

On Winston Churchill's 144th birth anniversary, a look at why the British prime minister was commended and condemned

Winston Churchill is known as Great Britain's most iconic Prime Minister; he held the office twice during 1940-45 and later in 1951-55.

2018 Nobel Prize for Literature scrapped amid Swedish Academy scandal; deferred to 2019

This is the first time since 1940 to 1943 when it was scrapped due to World War II that the Nobel prize for Literature isn't being given out in a particular year

2018 Nobel Prize for Literature could be scrapped with Swedish Academy mired in controversy

The Swedish Academy — the institute that picks the winners of the Nobel prize for Literature — has seen six of its 18 members resign, as the controversy has escalated

Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize for Literature: Novelist wanted to become rock star before drifting into writing

Ishiguro is perhaps best known for The Remains of the Day, which secured him the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989

British author Kazuo Ishiguro thought news of his winning Nobel Prize for Literature was 'hoax'

Japan-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro who on Tuesday won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, initially thought it was a "hoax".

Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British author, wins 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature

British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel The Remains of the Day, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.