According to Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel, the award goes to “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind” Though Alfred Nobel
Oslo, Norway | AFP | Friday 10/4/2019 – 10:04 UTC+8 By: Pierre-Henry Deshayes Eighty years ago on the brink of the bloodiest conflict in history, Adolf Hitler was nominated
Stockholm, Sweden | AFP | Thursday 10/3/2019 – 11:51 UTC+8 Since 1901, the Nobel prizes have been awarded to men, women and organisations whose work has led to great
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it,” from a 1981 speech to the Ohio Arts Council.
The announcement on Monday of the Nobel Medicine Prize opens this year’s amputated awards season, with no Literature Prize for the first time in 70 years because of a #MeToo
Peruvian-Spanish Premio Cervantes and Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa will be given an honorary professorship today (Nov. 7) by University of Santo Tomas at the ballroom of the UST Beato Buenaventura Garcia Paredes, O.P., Building.
Mario Vargas Llosa is a tried and true friend of Filipino writers. When Marcos imprisoned, harassed and oppressed writers, as president of International PEN, Mario visited Manila. His presence illustrated the solidarity of International PEN with us. We owe him this debt of gratitude and welcome him warmly into our midst.
For the first time in the history of the Nobel Literature Prize, a songwriter has been named as winner.
NEW YORK — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has received an honorary prize named for another Nobel winner, the late Saul Bellow. PEN America, the literary and human rights organization, told
STOCKHOLM — Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and courage.” Alexievich, 67, used
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