Nobel Prize in Literature

Internet Hoax Has Serb Writer As Nobel Winner

AP | Posted 12.06.2011

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: ...

Mario Vargas Llosa Says Nobel Prize Changed His Life

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...

Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel...

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Yoani Sanchez

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...

WATCH Bill Maher: Nobel Committee Must Rename The Prize

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...

Why Are Literary Prizes So Prized?

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...

Literary Betting

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...

"So Humane, So Beautifully Written, So Wise And So Compelling"

Jane Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011

Jane Smiley

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.

Mario Vargas Llosa: A Nobel Long Delayed

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Yoani Sanchez

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.

Nobel Prize In Literature 2010: Did Anyone Predict This?

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...

Jose Saramago Dead: Nobel Prize Winning Portuguese Novelist Dies At 87

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 ...

Herta Mueller, Nobel Prize Winner, Hid In The Forest With Editor To Proofread Manuscripts

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...

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Herta Muller

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,"...

Herta Mueller Wins Nobel Prize In Literature

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...