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The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original Swedish: den som inom ...
Nobel Prize in Literature. · 2013 →. The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chinese writer Mo Yan (born 1955) "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary." [1] He is the second Chinese author to win the prize after the exiled Gao Xingjian.
October 5 - The Swedish Academy announce that the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro. [3] October – Tianjin Binhai Library opens in China. [4] December – Kristen Roupenian 's short story "Cat Person" is published in The New Yorker and becomes a viral phenomenon online, with more than 2.6 million hits.
1995. S EAMUS H EANEY for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past. 1994. K ENZABURO O E who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". [1] She is the tenth female and the first Austrian Nobel ...
2020 >. The 2019 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game that determined a national champion in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision for the 2018 season. It was played at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, on January 5, 2019, with kickoff at 12:00 noon EST, and was the culminating game of ...
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". [1] [2] It was announced by the Swedish Academy on 6 October 2022. [3] [4] [5] Ernaux was the 16th French writer – the first ...
