László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in Literature: Hungary’s apocalyptic visionary is honoured
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist, for what the Swedish Academy…
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Creative Europe to support around 40 projects to boost literary translation in 2025
The call Circulation of European Literary Works supports the transnational circulation and the diversity of European literary works through the translation, publication,…
Han Kang wins the Nobel Prize in Literature: South Korea’s first laureate is a novelist of fragile bodies and history’s wounds
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 has been awarded to Han Kang, the South Korean novelist, for what the Swedish…
Paul Lynch wins the Booker Prize: ‘Prophet Song’, a dystopia that reads like tomorrow, takes the trophy
LONDON — The Booker Prize has gone to a warning. Paul Lynch won the 2023 award on Sunday night for “Prophet Song”,…
Jon Fosse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature: Norway’s quiet master of the unsaid takes the world’s biggest award
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 has been awarded to Jon Fosse, the Norwegian playwright and novelist, for what the…
Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Prize in Literature: France’s great autobiographer is honoured at 82
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 has been awarded to Annie Ernaux, the French writer who has spent five decades…
Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage in New York: the author of ‘The Satanic Verses’ attacked after 33 years of threats
CHAUTAUQUA — Salman Rushdie, the novelist who has lived under threat of death for more than three decades over his novel “The…
Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize: ‘The Promise’ brings a third shortlisting its reward
LONDON — Third time, as the saying goes, and for Damon Galgut it proved charmed. The South African novelist won the Booker…
Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature: the Academy honours the novelist of the refugee experience
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 has been awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibar-born, Britain-based novelist, for what the Swedish…
Douglas Stuart wins the Booker Prize: ‘Shuggie Bain’, rejected 30 times, takes fiction’s biggest award
LONDON — The Booker Prize has gone to a debut novel that thirty publishers turned down. Douglas Stuart, a 44-year-old Scottish-American fashion…