A look at the winner of the 2014 literature Nobel
French author Patrick Modiano, 69, whose novel “Rue des Boutiques Obscures” — English title: “Missing Person” — won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978.
French author Patrick Modiano, 69, whose novel “Rue des Boutiques Obscures” — English title: “Missing Person” — won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978.
Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what one academic called “crystal clear and resonant” prose.
The 2014 Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday by the Swedish Academy. Here is a list of previous winners of the award since 1980:
Since the creation of the Nobel prizes in 1901, six children have followed in the footsteps of their parents, becoming Nobel laureates themselves.
A Chilean judge isn’t ready to close the probe into the mysterious death of Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda four decades ago.
His death mourned around the globe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a giant of modern literature, a writer of intoxicating novels and short stories that illuminated Latin America’s passions, superstition, violence and social inequality.
Munro has published more than a dozen collections of short stories since the 1960s, often focusing on the lives of girls and women from the towns and farming communities in her home region of southwestern Ontario. She has been compared to Anton Chekhov for her exploration of the submerged passions and dramas in quiet provincial lives.
Canadian writer Alice Munro has won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature.
Here’s a look at the achievements being honored by this year’s Nobel Prizes, the $1.2 million awards handed out since 1901 by committees in Stockholm and Oslo:
The Nobel season kicks off Monday amid expectations that the physics prize will honor the discovery of the “God Particle”, while a Pakistani girl who was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban could receive the peace prize.
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