Nobel Prize Literature

Should J.K. Rowling Win The Nobel Prize?

| Posted 01.13.2012

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By Jeff O’Neal for BookRiot Last week, it came out that in 1961, C.S. Lewis nominated J.R.R. Tolkien for the Nobel Prize in Literature and that T...

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How Much Money Do Poets Make?

Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.13.2011

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The chances of making money as a poet are pretty slim - but how slim? The latest issue of New York Magazine puts some numbers on the old cliché with ...

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Internet Hoax Has Serb Writer As Nobel Winner

AP | Posted 12.06.2011

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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: ...

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The Winner Of The Nobel Prize For Literature 2011 Is...

Posted 12.06.2011

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A cheer went up in the Swedish Academy as they announced that, for the first time since 1974, one of their fellow countrymen had been awarded the Nobe...

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Nobel Jurors Attempt To Broaden Scope Of Prize

AP | By MALIN RISING | Posted 12.05.2011

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STOCKHOLM -- The Nobel literature jury has hired more experts to review work by authors writing in non-European languages in an attempt to broaden the...

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Placing Bets On The Nobel: Who's The Front Runner?

1 July 2011 Archive | Posted 08.31.2011

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True, there are only roughly 100 days left until they announce who gets the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, but it's pretty early in the season for th...

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Nobel Literature Jurors Accused Of Prize Biases

AP | By IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 06.14.2011

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Swedish panel that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature isn't biased toward European writers or against American writers, a m...

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Why Are US Literary Laureates Only Poets? Why Not a Dramatist?

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The country that invented musical theater should have a representational dramatist in its highest official center of literature.

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V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" About Africa and Himself (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

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V. S. Naipaul, in the winter of his long writing life, doesn't disguise his melancholy or his frailty. Still, his inquisitorial eye and his magic with a prose sentence have not abandoned him, nor the organ tones of his mesmerizing voice.

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Should African Author Ngugi wa Thiong'o Have Won The Nobel Prize For Literature?

The Guardian | Zoe Norridge | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's easy to see how the confusion might have arisen. Ngugi has dedicated his life to describing, satirising and destabilising the corridors of power....

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Elie Wiesel, Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela

The Huffington Post | Sammy Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Orhan Pamuk, Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney, Saul Bellow, Pablo Neruda ... all great authors honored by the Nobel Committee with a Nobel Prize in Litera...

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Nobel Jury Selects Lit Prize Winner

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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STOCKHOLM — The Swedish Academy has selected the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature and will announce the decision next week after a f...

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Literary Prize

guardian.co.uk | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

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After 13 years rewarding novelists and playwrights, the odds are strong that this year's Nobel prize for literature will go to a poet -- at least acco...

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Nobel Author Herta Mueller: Her Personal Struggle Against Dictatorship

AP | MALIN RISING | Posted 05.25.2011

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STOCKHOLM — The 2009 Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller said Monday she started writing when it was no longer possible to use spoken wo...

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Herta Muller

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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The judges, apparently, could not help themselves. Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too "Eurocentric,"...

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Herta Mueller Wins Nobel Prize In Literature

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Mary Chapin Carpenter Returns to the Stage and Talks about Eudora Welty, Inspiration, and Bonding

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Five-time Grammy winner, Mary Chapin Carpenter is still raving about the experience she had performing with Kate Campbell, Claire Holley and Caroline Herring at the Eudora Welty Centennial Concert.

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How to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Nobel Prize in Literature is just one example of a larger and more interesting phenomenon: how elite gate-keeping institutions are influenced by personal connections.

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The Meritless Nobel Prize?

Scott Tomford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thursday morning, somebody will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature... and that somebody probably won't be American.

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Did Uganda Have a Space Program, or is Robert Kimball a Fool?

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 05.25.2011

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Was there a Ugandan Space Program? There is no online evidence that I can find, and the whole thing sounds kind of dodgy.

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Nobel Literature Chief Bashes American Literature

AP | MALIN RISING and HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week: the top member of the award jury believes the United State...

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