Nobel Prize in Literature Current Affairs, GK & 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 Olga Tokarczuk and several other women have received the prize in literature category they were all writers and not a poet. Thus, Louis Gluck is the second ..

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2020

Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News

Topics: Alfred Nobel • Literature • Nobel Prize • Nobel Prize in Literature

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 specificity of human experience. His notable works include “Short Letter, Long Farewell” and “A Sorrow Beyond Dreams”. He will receive 9 million Swedish kronor (£740,000), as well ..

Topics: A Sorrow Beyond Dreams • Austria • Countries • Handke • Literature • Nobel Prize • Nobel Prize in Literature • Peter Handke • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences • Short Letter, Long Farewell • Writers

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 of life. Her first novel, “The Journey of the People of the Book,” was released in 1993. She has also won the Booker International Prize for her ..

Topics: Awards • Flights • G. • International Booker Prize • Literary awards • Literature • Nobel Prize • Nobel Prize in Literature • Olga Tokarczuk • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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. Conde will win about £87,000 raised from crowdfunding and donations, and will receive the prize at a ceremony on 9 December, one day before the Nobel banquet. ..

Topics: Awards • Culture • Maryse Condé • Me Too movement • New Academy Prize in Literature • Nobel Prize • Nobel Prize in Literature • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

British writer Kazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature

British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novelist was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. The prize of 9 million Swedish kronor will be awarded to him. ..

Topics: Booker Prize • British literature • Creative works • Fiction with unreliable narrators • Ishiguro • Kazuo Ishiguro • Knights Bachelor • Literature • Never Let Me Go • Nobel Prize in Literature • The Remains of the Day • Writers