Topic: Literature
South Korean author Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
Annie Ernaux; writing from experience
Siobhán McIlvanney, King's College London
The French author Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel prize in literature at the age of 82. Of the...
French author Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Foundation on Thursday announced that French author Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022.
In the press release, the foundation said...
What I ultimately write about is the human condition: Man Booker winner Jokha Alharthi
Jokha Alharthi, the first author from the Arabian Gulf to win the prestigious 2019 Man Booker International Prize and the first Omani woman to be translated into English, took the podium on the second day of the Sharjah International Book Fair 2019 to discuss Celestial Bodies, the novel that won her the coveted honour.
Institutionalising inequality would take India nowhere: Arundhati Roy
On Saturday, In the 4th edition of Kerala Literature Festival, Sohini Ghose who shared the dais with Arundhati Roy asked her about the politics in Roy’s non-fiction works.
