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Transtromer wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy announced this year's prize on 6 October in Stockholm. The Academy praised Stockholm...
Pynchon in the running for Nobel Prize?
A UK bookmaker has odds of 10/1 on Thomas Pynchon to be announced as the recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The prize was announced in Stockholm on 7 October by the Swedish Academy, who selected Vargas Llosa &ls...
Richard & Judy better known than Nobel or Booker
UK daytime TV hosts Richard & Judy -- who used to host a very successful TV book club -- are better known to Britons than either the Booker or Nobel prizes.
Herta Müller receives 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
German author Herta Müller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Svenska Akademien described Müller as a writer, ‘who, with the concentration of poetry and th...
Nobel Prize to be announced on 8 October
The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for literature will be announced on 8 October, with pundits tipping Amos Oz.
Le Clezio wins 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008. He is described by the Nobel committee as an ‘author of new departures, poetic adventure and se...
Japanese Nobel laureate wins court battle
Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe has won a major court battle over a book he wrote more than 30 years ago detailing how Japanese soldiers persuaded and sometimes forced Okinawan civilians to commit suicide...
Plot to kill Nobel winner
Turkish police have arrested over a dozen people alleged to be part of an ultra-nationalist plot that included plans to assassinate Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk
Lessing says internet 'has seduced with inanities'
Nobel Prize Laureate Doris Lessing has used her acceptance speech to criticise the dumbing-down effect of the internet, saying it has 'seduced a whole generation into its inanities' and created a worl...
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