The Nobel Academy guards its deliberations over prize winners for 50 years, and events in 1974 help explain why. That year, the two winners of the Nobel for literature were members of the Literature ...
Venki Ramakrishnan delivered the keynote address at the inaugural session of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) on Thursday ...
STOCKHOLM--South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical ...
Jaipur: More than 600 authors from across India and abroad, along with policymakers, public intellectuals and Bollywood ...
Kerala Literature Festival, held on Kozhikode's beaches, will feature over 500 speakers from 15 countries. Highlights include ...
Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is ...
Susan Mayberry, Jane Peterson Professor of the Humanities in Alfred University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was recognized for her ...
South Korean novelist Han Kang was introduced to most English readers by her 2007 book, “The Vegetarian” (published in ...
Narrative imagination, conceptual insight and rigorous analysis are essential to illuminating history. A Nobel Prize in history should celebrate this interdisciplinary richness, acknowledging scholars ...