Items tagged with 'Nobel Prize'

Culturally speaking, The Land of the Rising Sun has much to offer, and their literary output is definitely something you should keep on your radar.

With the the prize gap still facing female writers in the 21st century, it seemed like a good time to highlight a few talented women who battled for literary recognition in the past.

The author “took to Twitter” on Friday to make his feelings clear on the subject of the latest Nobel Prize in Literature winner, calling the writer “completely overrated”.

The body of the Noble Prize-winning poet is due to be exhumed for autopsy to determine the cause of his death in 1973.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel revealed he and another Laureate, President Barack Obama, are to write a “book of two friends”.

Newly declassified documents show JRR Tolkien was nominated for the Nobel prize--but he was swiftly rejected for what the jury deemed a low standard of storytelling.