Internet Hoax Has Serb Writer As Nobel Winner
BELGRADE, Serbia -- An internet hoax that falsely trumpeted a Serb as this year's Nobel Literature Prize winner was slick, and down fell the victims: ...
BELGRADE, Serbia -- An internet hoax that falsely trumpeted a Serb as this year's Nobel Literature Prize winner was slick, and down fell the victims: ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
MADRID — Mario Vargas Llosa says winning the Nobel Prize in literature last month has changed his life but not his eagerness to write. In Madri...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011
Today's guest post is from Cuban writer, photographer and blogger, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo. Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel... by Orlando Luis Pard...
Posted 05.25.2011
In the wake of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa's Nobel Prize in literature, "Real Time"'s Bill Maher has a new rule: The prize committee must chang...
The New Yorker | Adam Gopnik | Posted 05.25.2011
What this year's prize really shows is that prizes, like people, have a DNA of their own. The Nobel Prize in Literature would have been more illuminat...
DailyFinance | SARAH WEINMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
But the most palpable signs of relief came from the headquarters of Ladbrokes, a betting agency based in Britain which started bookmaking on the Nobel...
Jane Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011
We live in an age where many authors ponder their own experience over and over in styles that can be impenetrable, but Vargas Llosa looks at the world and writes about it with such wisdom that he doesn't fear being understood.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011
Vargas Llosa and his literature are responsible, in a direct and "premeditated" way, for much of who I am today: for my matrimonial happiness and my aversion to totalitarianism, for my betrayal of philology and approach to journalism.
The Huffington Post | Sammy Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011
Mario Vargas Llosa is the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Nobel Committee announced this morning from the Swedish Academy in Sto...
AP | BARRY HATTON | Posted 05.25.2011
LISBON, Portugal — Jose Saramago, who became the first Portuguese-language winner of the Nobel Literature prize although his popularity at home ...
Monsters and Critics | Posted 05.25.2011
Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller used to meet her German proof-reader in the forest to hide from Romania's Securitate communist secret poli...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011
The judges, apparently, could not help themselves. Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too "Eurocentric,"...
The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this morning to Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German poet and novelist, "who," stated the Swedish Acad...
AP | Posted 12.06.2011