Europe Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in literature as the 1st Norwegian author in nearly a century to win the award Jon Fosse, one of Norway’s most-performed dramatists, wrote 40 plays as well as ...

The Nobel Prize committee has awarded a winner in literature since 1901 and is traditionally the final award announced of the selection. To this day, it has been awarded 116 times to 120 ...

The American poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy often takes criticism for focusing too heavily on male, mainly Eurocentric writers.

The Nobel Prize in Literature has never had a fixed identity in its century-plus existence. It was conceived as a lifetime achievement award before the advent of lifetime achievement awards, ...

After a one-year absence brought on by an ugly and convoluted sexual abuse and financial malfeasance scandal, the Nobel Prize in Literature returned in 2019 with a charm offensive.The Swedish ...

American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel literature prize. American poet Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her "candid and uncompromising" work, becoming the first U.S ...

The 2016 Nobel laureates in literature, medicine, chemistry, physics and economics are seated, front row left across from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and the royal family.

On the one hand, it couldn’t be more timely. Annie Ernaux, the 82-year-old French writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature this morning, is perhaps best known — in the United States, at ...

T his year’s Nobel Prize for Literature marks a first in the award’s 118-year history. On Thursday, there won’t just be one award announced, but two simultaneously for different years: one ...

The early decades of the 20th century kept up the pace, and the Nobel Prizes, first awarded in 1901, were founded to keep score. In addition to literature, the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel ...

Nobel Prize In Literature Announced. October 7, 2010 / 7:52 AM EDT / CBS Detroit / CBS Detroit ...