Topic: Nobel Prize in Literature

Who is Kenzaburō Ōe?

Kenzaburō Ōe, the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author, passed away on March 10, 2023, at the age of 88. His death marks the end of an era in Japanese...

March 15, 2023    Awards, Honours & Persons in News

2022 Nobel Prize in Literature

French author Annie Ernaux recently received Nobel Peace Prize in Literature. Key facts Annie Ernaux, whose works are mostly autobiographical, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition...

October 7, 2022    Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Nobel Prize in Literature, 2020

The Nobel Prize, 2020 was awarded to Louise Gluck for her poetry. She is the first female poet to win the prize since Wislawa Szymborska in 1996. Though...

October 8, 2020

Peter Handke authors book “A Sorrow Beyond Dreams”

Austrian author Peter Handke has been honoured  with the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the...

October 11, 2019

Olga Tokarczuk awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form...

October 11, 2019

2018 New Academy Prize in Literature

Maryse Conde, a French (Guadeloupean) author of historical fiction, has won the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature, which is formed in protest to the Nobel Literature Prize....

October 15, 2018

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer of Japanese origin, widely regarded as one of the most accomplished literary figures of...

October 5, 2017

2012 Literature Nobel for Mo Yan of China

Chinese author Mo Yan won Nobel Prize for literature. His real name is Guan Moye. The Swedish Academy recognized the writer as a one "who with hallucinatory realism...

October 12, 2012

Current Affairs Current Affairs : Awards October 2009:

October 13, 2009:Right Livelihood Award or Alternate Nobel Awards: 2009The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, is an award that is presented annually, usually...

October 27, 2009

Current Affairs Current Affairs : International : September -October 2009

October 9, 2009: Nobel Peace Prize to Barak ObamaUS President Barack Obama was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.The annual award’s committee bestowed the honor...

October 9, 2009