Nobel Prize Literature

Should J.K. Rowling Win The Nobel Prize?

| Posted 01.13.2012

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...

How Much Money Do Poets Make?

Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.13.2011

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 ...

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: ...

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

Posted 12.06.2011

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...

Nobel Jurors Attempt To Broaden Scope Of Prize

AP | By MALIN RISING | Posted 12.05.2011

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...

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

1 July 2011 Archive | Posted 08.31.2011

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...

Nobel Literature Jurors Accused Of Prize Biases

AP | By IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 06.14.2011

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...

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

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Lauren Gunderson

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

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

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Christopher Lydon

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.

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

The Guardian | Zoe Norridge | Posted 05.25.2011

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....

Elie Wiesel, Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela

The Huffington Post | Sammy Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Nobel Jury Selects Lit Prize Winner

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Literary Prize

guardian.co.uk | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Nobel Author Herta Mueller: Her Personal Struggle Against Dictatorship

AP | MALIN RISING | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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...

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

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Georgianne Nienaber

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.

How to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

Bradley W. Bloch

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.

The Meritless Nobel Prize?

Scott Tomford | Posted 05.25.2011

Scott Tomford

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

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

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 05.25.2011

Ron Mwangaguhunga

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

Nobel Literature Chief Bashes American Literature

AP | MALIN RISING and HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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...