| 单词 | Nobel |
| 例句 | The story, which helped Canetti earn the Nobel Prize in literature, includes a character named Fischerele who aspires to become chess champion of the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “My Patron Historic was a great woman. She coined the term ‘radioactivity,’ and was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, back when such things were awarded.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Now which of these two students do you think is better suited to do the kind of brilliant, imaginative work that wins Nobel Prizes? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z These particles were named quarks by the Caltech physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his work on them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That was surely a factor in his becoming perhaps the most accomplished American physicist not to receive a Nobel Prize, but it does not mean he failed to do pioneering research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Libby’s idea was so useful that he would be awarded a Nobel Prize for it in 1960. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But the Nobel award was one I never thought about. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven of Ernest’s students and colleagues there would win Nobel Prizes in physics or chemistry after his death. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to quantum theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone has counted thirty Nobel Laureates who have worked at the MBL at one time or another. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov never won a Nobel Vladimir Nabokov never won an Prize. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For this work, W. A. Fowler, one of his collaborators, received a Nobel Prize. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This was a frightful blow, especially as Lawrence’s name was starting to be heard in connection with the Nobel Prize, for which Bohr’s endorsement was indispensable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Rabi, a Nobel laureate and veteran of the MIT Rad Lab and the Manhattan Project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They found him in bed with one of his chronic sinus infections, resting up for the Nobel ceremony two days hence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Nobel Peace Prize had a special meaning to me because of its involvement with South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then again, in 1928, physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born told a group of visitors to Gottingen University, “Physics, as we know it, will be over in six months.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a dazzling insight, and it won Bohr the 1922 Nobel Prize in physics, the year after Einstein received his. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Many others earned the esteem of their fellow chemists and physicists even if they fell short of the ultimate honor—a Nobel Prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence was the only American invited to an event at which he would be rubbing shoulders with twenty-one other present and future Nobel laureates. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the writing of this book the ghetto of Alexandra had just been saved from extinction by Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, and a group of clergymen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Space cannot even properly be said to be expanding because, as the physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg notes, "solar systems and galaxies are not expanding, and space itself is not expanding." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The animating figure was Caltech chemist Linus Pauling, a Nobel laureate known for his strong leftist views and stem-winding oratorical flair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Beadle and Tatum shared a Nobel Prize in 1958 for their discovery, but the Beadle/Tatum experiment raised a crucial question that remained unanswered: How did a gene “encode” information to build a protein? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Mr. Griffiths only said someone who has changed history, and Malala definitely did. She was the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize. And she’s from Pakistan.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z As cyclotrons around the world contributed to the list of known isotopes, rumors and expectations began to surface that the accelerator’s inventor might be in line for the Nobel Prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Since Nobel Prizes are never awarded posthumously, longevity can be as important a factor as ingenuity for prizewinners. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Although there is not a Nobel Prize in Mathematics, he might have had an outside chance at the Peace Prize. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The head of the department in which he studied was a Professor Kylmer, a very famous man who had once won a Nobel prize. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She was a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in— Matt dropped the book. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Holmesy, someday you’re going to win the Nobel Prize for Being Incredibly Pedantic, and I’m going to be so proud of you.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The novelist would later win the Nobel Prize, but he was already famous for his classic Southern epics like The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Though the odds still appeared against us, Linus had not yet won his Nobel. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And at least two well-known scientists, the astronomer Ernst Öpik and the chemist and Nobel laureate Harold Urey, had also voiced support for the notion at various times. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty- seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z For that, the survey deserved a Nobel Prize. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He didn’t win a Nobel Prize for his work. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Their inventors, two scientists from South Africa, are awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z However, in March 1905, he wrote a paper that would eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The 1933 Solvay Conference on Physics brought together the sciences aristocracy, including a score of current or future Nobel laureates. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In this triumphal atmosphere, rumors were heard again that Ernest might land the Nobel Prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel laureate and the intimate friend of statesmen and millionaires, suffered a sudden bout of stage fright at his first meeting with a US president. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I merely looked at the diagrams and photographs,” he said in his Nobel speech. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The roster of contributors to this work includes many Nobel Prize winners. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z However, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1983, it was, at least in part, for his early work on the limiting mass of cold stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Did he happen on the article by the Norwegian physicist Rolf Wideroe while “glancing over current periodicals in the University library,” as he related in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The following year, Lee and Yang received the Nobel Prize for their idea. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Vanessa was older than us by six months, and she ran in social circles that included girls and guys who were likely to become senators, ambassadors, and Nobel Prize winners. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He, too, was awarded with a Nobel Prize in physics, in 1935. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was still premature for the Rad Lab to dream of a Nobel of its own, but the reference to radio-sodium and its potential applications hinted at grand things in store. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A whale looks like a big fish; Obama has been the subject of rumors about his religion; Nabokov was denied the Nobel Prize in Literature that many critics thought he deserved. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Michelson was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics for the work–the first American so honored–but not for twenty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As it happened, Lawrence would meet Swann’s ten-year timeline with room to spare, bringing home the Nobel Prize only eight years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Wilkins won the Nobel Prize for their discovery. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Nor were there any Nobel Prize winners in his exhaustively selected group of geniuses. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Is this going to be the one that wins the Nobel Prize?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The Nobel Prize is merely a new version of Charleton’s colossus. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But take a look at the following list of where the last twenty-five Americans to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine got their undergraduate degrees, starting in 2007. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The first was a conversation with the distinguished German quantum physicist Otto Stern, a future Nobel laureate who was stopping at Berkeley during the holiday. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z While the field of government is often termed “political science” and the Nobel Prize in economics refers to “economic science,” history departments rarely if ever label themselves “Department of Historical Science.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The anti-apartheid struggle as a whole had captured the attention of the world; in 1984, Bishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It has some of the greatest Nobel Prize winners of this last century, nuclear physicists that almost cracked the atom—but kids around here don’t even know it’s there. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But they are all, clearly, smart enough, and future Nobel Prize winners come from schools like Georgetown as well as from schools like Harvard. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The discovery of the positron in 1932 confirmed Dirac’s theory and led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The few doubts being heard stemmed from rumors that the Nobel committee might suspend the prizes for the duration of the European war, which had begun with Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence was the University of California’s first Nobel laureate—indeed, the first from any public university in the United States. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Jews had won over half of Germany’s Nobel Prizes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z You can practically smell the future Nobel Prize on him. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Without even perfunctory regrets at the man’s passing, he accused Luthuli of being a patsy of the white man, mainly on the grounds that the chief had accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Centuries later, the biologist Max Delbrück would joke that Aristotle should have been given the Nobel Prize posthumously—for the discovery of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z King was about to leave for Oslo, where he would receive the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize from the king of Norway. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “The janitor was just as important a person as the Nobel scientist who came through, because he had his job to do,” he reflected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As a result, German schools lost some of the best minds, including physicists and Nobel prizewinners such as Albert Einstein. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Luthuli’s death left a great vacuum in the organization; the chief was a Nobel Prize winner, a distinguished, internationally known figure, a man who commanded respect from both black and white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “My favorite genius and future Nobel Prize winner.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “What would be good... What would be good would be if Mr. Curtain won the Nobel Peace Prize!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z This work held up over time, and the new discovery in his lab provoked by Bohr’s skepticism ultimately enhanced, not diminished, Lawrence’s claim to the Nobel. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For almost forty years Bragg, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the founders of crystallography, had been watching X-ray diffraction methods solve structures of ever-increasing difficulty.* Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Mother got the Nobel Peace Prize,” she whispered at last. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At Caltech, two physical chemists, Linus Pauling and Robert Corey, had used this technique to solve the structures of several protein fragments—a feat that would win Pauling the Nobel Prize in 1954. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “The team” just stands there beaming like they’ve all won the Nobel Peace Prize for Musical Theater. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Theorists tend to be more liberal in their politics, liberal ranging on into radical,” the Nobel laureate Edwin McMillan, Lawrence’s laboratory associate and brother-in-law, observed years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To be a Nobel Prize winner, apparently, you have to be smart enough to get into a college at least as good as Notre Dame or the University of Illinois. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Months later, Carrel won a Nobel Prize for his blood-vessel- suturing technique and his contributions to organ transplantation, and he became an instant celebrity. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Marie Curie won a Nobel for her work on radiation.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z At the White House, he dismissed Byrnes’s concerns by pointing out that the scientific team behind the bomb included Ernest Lawrence and three other Nobel laureates, along with “practically every physicist of standing.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This was before my time; I joined the college in 1965 at the tail end of the bitterness, when similar disagreements forced another Nobel Prize-winning Master, Sir Nevill Mott, to resign. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His fieldworkers actually tested two elementary students who went on to be Nobel laureates—William Shockley and Luis Alvarez—and rejected them both. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When receiving my Nobel Prize, I'm so lost in thought that the peacenik seated beside me has to elbow me in the ribs, saying, "Hey, buddy, I think they're calling your name." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “And there’s no Nobel Prize for math. I’m going to win the Fields Medal.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z By honoring both the invention of an essential instrument for large-scale research and the creation of a laboratory model to put it to use, the Nobel committee validated a sea change in science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Or are they going to team up and try to win the Nobel Prize in physics one day? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a certain engaging irony therefore that when he won the Nobel Prize in 1908, it was in chemistry, not physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That autumn, on October 14, 1964, I heard that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of nonviolence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Isn’t that the meaning of Alfred Nobel’s legacy? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This time Neylan’s target was Melvin Calvin, a future Nobel laureate who had worked at the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago and then moved to Berkeley to research peacetime applications of medical radioisotopes with John Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I was the third South African since the end of the Second World War to be so honored by the Nobel committee. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Both were genuinely pleased, Elizabeth with sisterly pride, Bertrand with the idea that he could report back to International Society that he had a friend who would win a Nobel Prize. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z At the Nobel award ceremony in Berkeley, Kamen was still basking in the glory of having demonstrated, once again, the spectacular capabilities of the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So powerful did the evidence of Mangelsdorf’s tiny cobs seem that in the 1960s it buried the teosinte hypothesis, even though the latter’s champion, Beadle, had for other research won a Nobel Prize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was for that reason that I assumed the Nobel committee would never consider the man who had started Umkhonto we Sizwe for the peace prize. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What that lady could do with the contents of a recycling bin ought to earn her a Nobel Prize. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The launch of the carbon-14 project coincided with another round of anxious expectation about a Nobel Prize for Ernest Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A few weeks after he arrived, he received word that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the neutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But what he hadn't done was quite important—he hadn't gotten Katherine III on paper, and one cannot take an equation that predicts eighteen out of nineteen Katherines to the Nobel Prize Committee. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Swedish Academy secretary Sara Danius said earlier this week that Dylan would not give the traditional Nobel lecture this weekend, but that a taped version would probably be sent later. Nobel saga all over now as Dylan finally gets prize 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Lawrence was one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century, a Nobel laureate in the same league as Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie. The man who invented 'Big Science,' Ernest Lawrence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z I am on the phone with Nobel laureate Arthur B. McDonald, one of the most renowned physicists in the world. Perspective | The physics of ‘On Top of Spaghetti’ has bedeviled him for years. So he asked experts. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The idea for the “List” series that would bring him more notoriety originated more than 10 years ago, when Greenfield-Sanders was talking with Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. 'Show the struggle, but also the great accomplishment,' says photographer behind minority photo series 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize, considered one of the highest accolades in literature, is given only to living writers. Swedish poet Transtromer wins Nobel in literature 2011-10-06T11:38:11Z The Nobel Prize-winning musician’s essays explore the essence of popular music. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Yes, but it is technically not a Nobel Prize. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z But the most intimate portrait came from Diane Blair, a woman Clinton befriended in Arkansas who was not a Nobel laureate or legal scholar and never held elected office. From press paranoia to affairs: A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Sadat and Begin later were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Lawrence Wright's new book vividly recalls 1978 Camp David summit 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Chiwoniso then concentrated on raising her daughters, Chengeto and Chiedza, but was involved in occasional music projects, including for the United Nations Development Programme and the 100th anniversary of the Nobel peace prize. Chiwoniso obituary 2013-07-26T18:08:38Z In some circles, he was being spoken of as a likely Nobel laureate. WG Sebald's quietly potent legacy 2013-05-13T16:17:59Z Yeoh says the Nobel Peace Prize laureate is a hero of hers. Michelle Yeoh calls Myanmar's Suu Kyi her 'hero' 2012-02-01T13:23:15Z Yet she has never been given the credit accorded to her rivals and colleagues, James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, who received the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their work in the same field. Review: In ‘Photograph 51,’ Nicole Kidman Is a Steely DNA Scientist 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z He was cheered that Bob Dylan received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z So why not remove the annual obligation and, instead, award the Nobel Prize in literature only when a truly world-class author arises? Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “On our way to pick up Paul’s Nobel Prize, we’re stopping off to get married,” said Ms. Weber, laughing as she spoke, just before heading to Sweden. Arts Meets Science and Chemistry Wins the Day 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Ishiguro is the traditional “great” writer everybody likes to see win the Nobel Prize. After the Bob Dylan Nobel prize backlash, will honoring Kazuo Ishiguro ‘make the world happy’? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z This week it also features Bob Dylan, the 79-year-old songwriter and cultural chameleon who four years ago won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Bob Dylan Makes Chart History With ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z When the Nobel Prize was given to Bob Dylan this week, it seemed to many in the book world like a lost opportunity. Why Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to the book world 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Mark LaFramboise, a book buyer at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., said the store often struggles to get stock of a new Nobel laureate, but this year it’s been unusually difficult. He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Between them, organisers said the signatories had 18 Olympic gold medals, 44 Bafta awards, one Nobel prize and two Turner prizes. Jagger, Hawking join big celebrity push to keep Scotland in the UK 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Last year, we decided to tackle a novel by each of America’s Nobel Prize winners. The Crime Novelist William Kent Krueger Still Loves Sherlock Holmes 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureate’s sole short story, published in 1983 and only now being released in book form, depicts an interracial friendship between two girls — one white, one Black — who meet in a shelter. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Winning the Nobel, and the new fame that came with it, required some adjustments: He has had no time to write, Gurnah said. Abdulrazak Gurnah Refuses to Be Boxed In: ‘I Represent Me’ 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Obviously, he hired similarly minded young scientists — many, like William Shockley, future Nobel Prize winners. 'The Idea Factory': Bell Labs, the fountainhead of innovation 2012-03-22T20:07:04Z He said Mo would come to Stockholm to accept the award at the annual Nobel Prize ceremony on Dec. 10. Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T12:40:17Z He was awarded the honorific "Mahatma," or Great Soul, by none other than Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. 'Great Soul': Joseph Lelyveld tells Mahatma Gandhi's larger-than-life story 2011-04-06T22:21:04Z We have Nobel Prize winners asking if they can guest-star on the show. ArtsBeat Blog: Emmys Watch: Johnny Galecki of 'The Big Bang Theory' 2011-09-15T17:15:07Z On Thursday, she was awarded one of literature’s highest honors, the Nobel Prize, for her body of work. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z If claiming Whitman's mantle seems a bit presumptive, it's worth remembering that Dylan is one of only eleven Americans to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Bob Dylan contains multitudes: Walt Whitman as Dylan's muse on "Murder Most Foul" 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z The father in “Disgrace,” the searing book by the Nobel laureate J.M. Dear Match Book: Daddy’s Little Girl 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z A man who introduced himself as the secretary of the Swedish Academy, he said, “I’m calling to tell you you’ve won the Nobel Prize.” ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Petit-fours from 20 kroner, tapas from 35 kroner, Nobel dessert 75 kroner. Choice Tables: Delicious Desserts at Stockholm?s Cafes 2010-12-22T23:15:43Z The day after the ceremony, she says, Nobel laureates gathered and asked to take selfies with her. Patti Smith, an accidental rock legend, has finally become the artist she always wanted to be 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The Nobel was a source of great pride for my Guatemalan expatriate parents, who purchased several of his books; these were the first novels I ever laid eyes on. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The Romanian Nobel Peace Prize laureate and ardent Holocaust educator -- perhaps best known for his moving memoir “Night,” about surviving brutal life in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz -- died on Saturday at 87. Elie Wiesel's death spurs social media remembrances 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Looking back, though, what was it like to feel the wrath of the Nobel laureate Grass? Helene Hegemann: 'There's no such thing as originality, just authenticity' 2012-06-23T23:05:24Z Who wouldn’t turn bright red with embarrassment for an adult scurrying around the state capitol showing legislators what she thinks are the dirty parts of a canonical novel by a Nobel Prize winner? Perspective | In the Va. governor’s race, ‘Beloved’ is reduced to its most explicit parts. That’s obscene. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The Nobel judges passed over America’s most formidable novelist for decades even as he published one classic after another, from “Goodbye, Columbus” to “The Plot Against America.” Perspective | Philip Roth died before he could win a Nobel Prize. He didn’t need it. 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z But the Nobel Prize in literature is something else. Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z This process of synaptic messaging between unconnected cells came to be called the Neuron Doctrine, and in 1906, it earned Cajal the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z In March, the foundation behind the Nobel Prize in literature said the Swedish Academy had revamped itself and restored trust. 2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The Nobel award committee's citation called her the "Mozart of poetry," a woman who mixed the elegance of language with "the fury of Beethoven" and tackled serious subjects with humor. Poland's 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T20:32:13Z Hemingway went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature the next year. Hemingway shows soft side in newly public letters 2012-03-28T22:47:09Z As a newcomer and an outsider, when she entered Bellow's class – the Nobel laureate! – the main thought in her head was: which seat will best enable me to disappear? Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z His books are not without magical touches, but he is more grounded, more a "realist" than fellow Nobel laureate and South American Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z The first 11 pages of text are entirely crossed out, and an insight into the workings of the Nobel prize-winning author's mind is provided by the eight cancelled versions of the novel's famous opening sentence. Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z The driver asked him what he did for a living, and Marías, who is often cited as the likely future recipient of a Nobel Prize, responded with characteristic gentlemanly understatement: “I write books.” The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z He's a guy who was waiting right at the end of his life for a Nobel that many argue should have come. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Morrison went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the 1996 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. Remembering Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize-winning author dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer died Monday at age 90, her family said. Nadine Gordimer, critic of apartheid and Nobel laureate, has died 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z At one extreme, the one that would get him a Nobel Prize, if he’s right about this is behaving as if it were a standing wave, remember those standing waves?… Swimming against the tide: Lawrence Weschler on 'Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z That's $2,000 more than the school is paying Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison to speak at graduation on May 15. Rutgers pays Snooki more than Nobel winner for talk 2011-04-01T17:35:12Z In 2018, I'm still alive and that guy just won a Nobel Prize. I was the new Nobel Prize winner’s lab rat 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z A measure of that is that among American Nobel Prize winners, the majority are either first-generation immigrants or the children of first-generation immigrants. Jared Diamond: Here are the four ways America is ruining itself right now 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Olson includes not just those on the receiving end of accolades and Nobel Prizes, but individuals from more anonymous walks of life, to provide a relatable and often heartbreaking layer to the narrative. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z An invigorating polemic by Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel medicine laureate and recently anointed president of the Royal Society. Tonight's TV highlights: Horizon: Science Under Attack 2011-01-24T00:04:00Z Dylan, true to form, has played the whole Nobel thing mysteriously, maybe maddeningly, cool. The Rambling Glory of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Speech 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The groom is a paternal grandson of Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist. A Commitment for More Than One Lifetime 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Stiglitz: The inequality crisis Topics: , Inequality, Nobel Prize, , Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, one of America’s most prescient voices, wrote an article for Vanity Fair several months before Occupy Wall Street was born. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z The fact that no American has won a recent Nobel prize for literature is perhaps the most glaring and debated symptom of a refusal by today's wider world to revere American creative giants. Why American modern art blows British talent out of the water 2013-02-18T16:51:31Z He is the son of farmers who left school during the Cultural Revolution to work, first in agriculture and later in a factory, according to his Nobel biography. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z The discovery that led to the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry was equally unexpected. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z The church’s attitude toward Mr. Fo had not mellowed a generation later, when he was awarded the Nobel. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Seeing them successful is "my Nobel Prize," Jones said. Quincy Jones talks music, life, love at ASCAP expo 2010-04-24T21:16:00Z At 17, she became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2012, Taliban shot 14-year-old Malala for speaking about girls barred from school 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z In the ensuing administrative battle, the permanent secretary of the academy was forced out, several members resigned and the Nobel Foundation, which funds the award, demanded changes. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z You can click through to a fact-page on the Nobels in their entirety, too. Nobel prize in literature 2012: live blog 2012-10-11T10:49:18Z The Swedish Academy that hands out the Nobels said on Wednesday the media-shy singer-songwriter would get the prize in the "small and intimate setting" he requested while in the city on a two-concert tour. Nobel saga all over now as Dylan finally gets prize 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z That experience lies behind her criticism last weekend of Mo Yan's Nobel prize as a "catastrophe", rewarding a writer whom she claims "celebrates censorship" and is too close to the Chinese regime. Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z For Romanian Nobel Laureate Herta Müller, the constancy implicit in this banal fact is an inspiration and a godsend. ‘The Fox Was Ever the Hunter,’ by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z And no one, he said, complained about his "honorary title" as deputy president of the China's Writers' Association until he won the Nobel. Mo Yan dismisses 'envious' Nobel critics 2013-02-28T14:43:20Z The name of the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare regularly comes up at Nobel Prize time, and he is still a good bet to win it one of these days. Books of The Times: Power Struggles and Riddles, in Romance and Political Intrigue 2010-11-23T23:27:00Z A year ago I argued that Le Guin deserved a Nobel Prize in literature. What we can learn from two literary masters: Ursula K. Le Guin and James Salter 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z “They were the old storytellers, the master glassblowers who taught me and other children the craftsmanship, the art, of spinning fantastic yarns,” Mr. Fo recalled in his Nobel speech. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Photograph: Tim Knox for the Guardian The week Saul Bellow received the Nobel prize in 1976, he was entering a venue in Stockholm when a reporter called out a question. Greg Bellow: My father, Saul 2013-04-27T08:01:15Z If an American television network were going to be in cahoots with the Nobel committee, it makes sense that it would be PBS. Television in Review: ?Women, War & Peace? on PBS - Review?Chelsea Settles,? an MTV Reality Show - Review?Reed Between the Lines? on BET - Review 2011-10-10T23:24:44Z Mr. Blackwood also made films about subjects who were not artists, like the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe and the diplomat George F. Kennan, and several about Germany and German Americans. Michael Blackwood, Who Captured 20th-Century Artists on Film, Dies at 88 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Actor Sir Ian McKellen and 27 Nobel laureates have written an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to change a controversial law banning "homosexual propaganda". McKellen protest at Russia gay law 2014-01-14T12:16:36Z After all, hadn't he alone won the Nobel prize for this in 1952? Experiment Eleven: Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis by Peter Pringle – review 2012-06-29T21:52:01Z The prize is presented alongside an award to a British writer, created in honor of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter. Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho receives PEN prize 2010-09-16T16:46:00Z He played concerts in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Albuquerque, El Paso and Tulsa—at 75, Dylan is perpetually on tour; he’ll play four or five nights a week—without mentioning the Nobel to the crowd. Why Bob Dylan’s Impact Is Bigger Than His Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z He was thinking of starting a school, he said, for children to work on Nobel problems. My little Einstein 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z In his Nobel acceptance speech, Mr. Fo praised Molière and Il Ruzzante for writing about the fears, desperation and laughter of ordinary people. Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize is scheduled to be awarded to one of these writers -- or any other -- Thursday morning. Who will win the Nobel Prize in Literature? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z It's a point the Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer made forcefully when she visited the West Bank a couple of years ago. The Palfest book festival puts Palestinian writers on the map 2010-05-11T10:56:00Z Bim Adewunmi Nearly 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains the only person to have won Nobel prizes in two sciences: chemistry and physics. TV highlights – 03/05/2013 2013-05-03T06:00:05Z Rather than the highbrow and sometimes obscure names usually touted for the Nobel, this list includes J.K. An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z He became a hateful figure to the progressive left, and when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2001, Le Monde Diplomatique compared it to Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Reading Naipaul in Africa 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z This year’s Nobel laureate will be announced by the Swedish Academy at 1 p.m. ArtsBeat Blog: Dylan Tangled Up in Nobel Prize Speculation 2011-10-05T17:14:37Z During his year as a Nobel laureate, he didn’t write a new memoir or release an album of new songs. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z According to the woman’s cousin on Twitter, the colleagues misunderstood the request for the Grammy-award winning singer and created the cake to feature the two-time Nobel Price-winning scientist. Woman received Marie Curie cake instead of Mariah Carey after co-workers ‘misunderstand’ her request 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, cited for “new poetic expression within the great American song tradition” — leaving some delighted and some disgruntled that a songwriter would overshadow novelists and poets. Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize: A Podcast Discussion 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The prolific writer, who started out as a newspaper reporter, was best known for his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Colombia to print Garcia Marquez banknotes in tribute to writer 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z We've got 26 minutes to go: how about seeing how many former laureates you can spot in the Nobel website's wordsearch? Nobel prize in literature 2012: live blog 2012-10-11T10:49:18Z Four years later, he won the Nobel Prize in literature. Review | J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ raises more questions than it answers 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The project also includes footage of Prince Charles interviewing former U.S. vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore in 1988. Prince Charles' environment film to air in U.S. 2010-04-27T23:11:00Z Murray claimed not to want the Nobel Prize in Literature—he was, for a decade, a short-odds favorite—but, privately, I liked the idea of him winning. The Homegrown Language of Les Murray 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z But Gao’s win did little to assuage China’s Nobel anxiety: there are dissident strains in his work, and he is a naturalized French citizen. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z “Canto,” which earned Neruda a Nobel Prize, is a series of poems meant to be a history of Latin America. A&E highlights: Chesney at CenturyLink, Ballard bike riders and all that jazz in Bellevue 2013-05-22T23:21:08Z The announcement ranked as the physics discovery of the year, confirming Einstein’s century-old theory of gravity and putting the Ligo team on course for a Nobel. 2016's best bits: breakthroughs in science 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z We lost a National Book Award winner, a revealing Hollywood memoirist, two Nobel Prize winners, beloved children's book authors, prize-winning poets and an Olympian whose story is now a major motion picture. Writers we lost in 2014 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z This audiobook of the "young readers edition" of"I Am Malala"presents a condensed version — 300 minutes long — of the full memoir by the Nobel winner. The Grammys: What your kids (and you) need to hear 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The last American writer to win a Nobel in literature was Toni Morrison in 1993. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z As we saw in the fuss over Dylan’s Nobel Prize, some people still view lyricists as lesser poetical beings. I already knew Leonard Cohen was dead on Election Day — then things got worse 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z The news of Gurnah’s Nobel was celebrated by fellow novelists and academics who have long argued that his work deserves a wider audience. Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Many were Jewish and many were world-renowned figures in the arts, most notably composer Arnold Schoenberg, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Thomas Mann, stage and film impresario Max Reinhardt, playwright Bertolt Brecht and screen legend Marlene Dietrich. Review | Turning a spotlight on the Hollywood doyenne who gave refuge to artists fleeing Hitler 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Days later, in Istanbul, a writer's wife tells him that her husband will not win the Nobel prize because it is Graham Greene's turn. John Mullan on The Great Railway Bazaar – Guardian book club 2013-06-07T17:00:01Z For his international diplomacy, Carter was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Jimmy Carter biography in the works by Jonathan Alter 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison, the author and Nobel Prize winner, turned 88 on Feb. 18. Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z For readers not obsessed with European royalty or Nobel Prize winners — OMG! You Seriously Want Me to Go Out With Her? 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The diplomat — and first African American to be awarded a Nobel Prize, for his U.N. work mediating the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine — was a ferocious U.N. defender, and his words were revelatory and astonishing. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z A lot of other economists did, including Edward Prescott, who won the Nobel Prize for economics, so presumably should be taken seriously. What can we learn from the Great Depression? 2012-08-27T11:45:00Z This subtle and substantial novel imagines the life of Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “Death in Venice” and “The Magic Mountain,” among other classics. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name Nobel laureates for their contributions in fields including physics, literature and peace work. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z He received the Nobel Prize in his hospital bed. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z That’s why Nobel Prizes, or the Olympics, are so important: China feels that it needs international face.” Books: Highlighting Differences in Interpretations of the Opium War 2011-08-18T15:14:28Z Although it lacks the maturity of the Nobel laureate’s later works — the confident hand of a master the critic Irving Howe called the “connoisseur of ironies” — it provides a fascinating glimpse into the young writer. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, her acceptance speech was very much about the importance of books and reading for children. Reading in the Twenty-First Century 2012-06-29T08:00:00Z Oates, a five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, recipient of the National Humanities Medal and rumored Nobel Prize in literature contender, followed that tweet up with some others, apparently attempting to clarify her question: Joyce Carol Oates tweets: With ISIS, 'is there nothing celebratory & joyous?' 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison writes about psychological violence with an engineer's precision and a poet's expansiveness. "Home:" Toni Morrison's novel of a Southern homecoming 2012-06-20T21:42:07Z The Nobel Foundation said in 1998 the prize was given to Saramago "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." Nobel-winning Portuguese author Saramago dies at 87 2010-06-19T02:24:00Z They were coming off a harrowing year that included O’Neill’s four-month drinking binge, a near-death scare, a move across the country and the winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will provide a speech and fellow American singer-songwriter Patti Smith will perform one of his best-known songs in his absence during Stockholm's prize celebrations, the awards body said on Monday. Patti Smith and a speech by proxy to fill Dylan void at Nobels 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z “It’s not bad at all getting a Nobel,” he said, “and making so many old fossils explode with rage.” Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “If you were to watch me by day, you would see me sitting at my desk solving Schrödinger’s equation...exactly like my colleagues,” says Sir Anthony Leggett, a Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in superfluidity. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The tall softly-spoken activist remained modest when asked whether he was surprised by winning the Nobel. 'I can't explain the joy each time I've freed a child': Nobel winner 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature. The biggest book news of the year 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z I’ve always had an uneasy relationship with this Nobel Prize winner. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z “I spoke before the American Society of Breast Surgeons and it’s so hard to convince them – Nobel laureates! I gave them these statistics and there were gasps in that room.” Kathy Bates: 'I told Clint that after 50 years, I feel like I've hit the big time' 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The alleged groping incident occurred at a Nobel Peace Prize concert when, according to Behn, he and Spacey sat right beside him. Accuser dies by suicide one day after actor Kevin Spacey posts "kill them with kindness" video 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The documentary outlines his life and work, from his childhood in Newark, N.J., to such controversial novels as the ribald "Portnoy's Complaint" to his current status as literary eminence and perennial Nobel candidate. Roth documentary raises new questions at 80 2013-03-11T14:38:08Z Every year around this time he must feel just like Graham Greene: another diss from the Nobel Committee, and another middling adaptation of one of his novels. American Pastoral: why can't cinema get Philip Roth right? 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, an uncompromising moralist who became one of the most powerful voices against the injustice of apartheid, has died at the age of 90, her family said on Monday. South African anti-apartheid author, Nobel winner Gordimer dies 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The Nobel auction is a grand gesture from a man long seen as the dean of Russia’s besieged independent press. Russian Journalist to Auction Nobel Medal to Benefit Ukraine 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Pascalidou said the prize was not trying to replace the Nobel. An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Unsettled passions stir beneath much of the work of the Nobel laureate Alice Munro. Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Golding, who died in 1993, wrote more than a dozen books after “Lord of the Flies,” including “The Spire” and “Darkness Visible,” and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. Edmund Epstein Dies at 80; Gave ?Lord of the Flies? Wings 2012-04-07T21:31:02Z "Mr. Kofi Annan has behaved too fabulously as secretary-general of the United Nations and he's had more than one stint at the job and he has earned a Nobel," she said. Angelou celebrates black history with Oprah, Keys 2013-02-02T12:46:03Z The book also is inscribed by the Nobel Prize-winning author to Cowley, who was working on a profile of Faulkner for Life magazine. William Faulkner collection auctioned in NYC 2010-06-22T17:04:00Z Like many such gongs, up to and including the Nobel prize for literature, the Bad Grammar award looks suspiciously like the continuation of politics by other means. Grammar rules everyone should follow 2013-05-09T13:56:00Z On the streets of the Macedonian capital, stalls sell postcards and memorabilia with the nun's picture while visitors take in sites dedicated to the Nobel peace prize winner such as a memorial museum and statues. In Skopje, residents proud of native Mother Teresa canonization 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Mr. Kertesz claimed that he wrote only for himself. Imre Kertesz, Hungarian author who won Nobel Prize, dies at 86 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He was nominated for a Nobel Prize for developing lifesaving surgical techniques, yet also inspired shlocky horror films like “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die.” Could You Transplant a Head? This Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein Thought So. 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z As for that Nobel in economics, Mr. Fielder is way ahead of the curve in acknowledging that ludicrousness is the defining feature of our age. ‘Nathan for You,’ on Comedy Central, Mixes Absurdity and Economics 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z From Feb. 19 to Mar. 17, 2013, the center will present a Nordic festival featuring not only the arts of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, but also their food and Nobel laureates. ArtsBeat: Kennedy Center Announces 2012-2013 Season 2012-03-06T16:48:09Z What’s it like to watch your daughter accept the Nobel Peace Price? Malala's Dad: How I Raised a Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z I was certain it was from a Toni Morrison novel, but when I consulted Google, I was reminded that the phrase harkened from Morrison’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Dying, with a lifetime of literature 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z She did not do cocktail parties, but she made time for a party in celebration of her winning the Nobel Prize. Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z He won every scientific prize except the Nobel – for which much lobbying took place on his behalf. Henri Poincaré: the unlikely link between Einstein and Picasso 2012-07-17T11:48:23Z Gore is a Nobel laureate for his environmental activism and is chairman of Current TV. Current TV to air global warming talk by Al Gore 2011-09-12T18:05:08Z Since the Nobel was announced last October, his books, many of which were out of print in the United States at the time, have been reissued. Abdulrazak Gurnah Refuses to Be Boxed In: ‘I Represent Me’ 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z The Nobel prize sometimes results in a surprise choice of an artists who is little known outside a small circle of connoisseurs. Poets lead running for Nobel Literature prize 2011-10-04T15:06:59Z "So in essence, to win his Nobel Peace prize with North Korea, Trump is going to start a war with Canada," Noah said on "The Daily Show." Here's how late-night comedians reacted to the Trump-Kim summit 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The charges, though dropped, proved to be an embarrassment to Turkey on the world stage, all the more so when Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ review: Orhan Pamuk’s love letter to Turkey 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Dylan was chosen last year as the winner of the Nobel in Literature, but did not attend the awards ceremony in December. Bob Dylan’s Next Act: A Triple Album of Standards 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The only other living U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is the musician Bob Dylan, who received the award in 2016. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Authors worldwide praised Annie Ernaux’s novels on Thursday after she received the Nobel Prize in Literature, but some in France have also been praising her politics, especially for highlighting the struggles of the working class. Didier Eribon on Ernaux: She captured ‘in one sentence what I couldn’t say in a page.’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Reports in Chinese publications Wednesday stuck to Vargas Llosa's comments on literature and how endless media interviews after winning the Nobel Prize disrupted his work and life. In China, Vargas Llosa criticizes authoritarianism 2011-06-15T05:58:08Z Children don't play much part in the books that won him the Nobel prize, though, and it is interesting that in his last book, Hanging Garden, unfinished at his death, he returns to them. Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z Mr. Transtromer was considered a candidate for the Nobel for a decade or more. Tomas Transtromer, Crystalline Swedish Poet, Dies at 83 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The Nobel committee said the lithium-ion battery has its roots in the oil crisis in the 1970s, when Whittingham was working to develop methods aimed at leading to fossil fuel-free energy technologies. Scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on lithium-ion battery 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z He is calmly hilarious about how the historian Barbara W. Tuchman — never the most felicitous writer — urged him to lobby for her to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In ‘Avid Reader,’ a Celebrated Editor as Shepherd and Alchemist 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z But after looking at the field of contenders a committee member, Henry Olsson, wrote, "There aren't any obvious candidates for the Nobel prize and the prize committee is in an unenviable situation." ArtsBeat: No Wrath, but Some Discontent, When Nobel Prize Was Awarded to Steinbeck 2013-01-04T14:51:16Z A more public literary Christian was Henryk Sienkiewicz, who won a Nobel prize while his contemporaries Tolstoy, Ibsen and Twain were overlooked. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z “If they are serious and rewarding good work, the Nobel Foundation encourages efforts like these,” it said. Not-the-Nobel Prize in Literature Is Announced 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z He later won the Nobel Peace Prize for his medical work there. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z A team of Japanese scientists earned the Ig Nobel Physics Prize, for example, for detailing the hazards of stepping on a banana peel in their paper titled "Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin." Banana peel study, ugly art research win Ig Nobel spoof awards 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Munro will be presented with her latest award at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, who established the prize. Alice Munro wins Nobel Literature Prize 2013-10-10T12:51:40Z The Nobel ceremony is on Dec. 10 in Stockholm. Bob Dylan Speaks, at Last, on His Nobel 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Some items, such as the Nobel medal, had been stored at the University of Mississippi. Faulkner heirlooms going to auction in New York 2013-04-10T13:36:08Z While Christensen won numerous literary awards in Europe, and was routinely named a contender for the Nobel, breaking into America proved difficult. ‘The Condition of Secrecy’ Teems With Love for Language and the Natural World 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z She notes that the killer’s manifesto proposed Ms. Hirsi Ali for the Nobel Peace Prize. Books of The Times: ?Wanted Women: Faith, Lies & the War on Terror? - Review 2012-01-15T23:49:30Z The Nobel Web site notes that “since the Swedish language can not be read by more than about one thousandth of the world’s population, the skillfulness of his translators has been especially vital.” Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Instead, Mr. Fo became one of the most unlikely Nobel laureates in literature — until the very day he died, when the prize was awarded to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The cruel irony: This is happening after eight years of a president who won the Nobel Peace Prize largely for his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. Is Nuclear War Inevitable? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z He was today awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014, justly-deserved for a remarkable body of work that is still not well known here. How Patrick Modiano mined his dysfunctional childhood to create a haunting body of work 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Interviewed last year, Seagal described that speech as "exactly what Al Gore did 18 years later that he got an Academy award and a Nobel peace prize for". Steven Seagal: how the would-be senator was ahead by a ponytail 2013-03-21T18:40:01Z In July, his work in geometric combinatorics won him the Fields Medal, given every four years to mathematicians younger than 40 and known as the “Nobel Prize in Mathematics.” Meet the new MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z While he was recognized abroad with a Nobel Peace Prize, his reputation in Poland's boisterous new democracy waned. Walesa, Poland's flawed hero, given redemption in film 2013-08-14T16:08:54Z Glass cabinets hold photos, manuscripts and awards, including his Nobel medal and his International Lenin Peace Prize. Pablo Neruda’s love nest in Santiago: Like his poetry, it’s filled with passion 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z O’Brien will host the Nobel Peace Prize concert on Dec. 11 in Oslo, Norway. Conan O'Brien to host Nobel concert, Halsey to perform 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Eliot at London publisher Faber & Faber, where the Nobel literature laureate was a director and she a star-struck secretary who had been a fan of his work since her teenage years. AP Exclusive: Art owned by TS Eliot's wife on sale 2013-05-31T01:02:08Z Back in New York, she invited some compatriots to the Soho House for a first feedback screening: leaders from the Ford Foundation and Equality Now, along with Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian Nobel Peace Prize winner. Gloria Steinem Brings Feminism to Vice TV 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Roth won every major literary award except the Nobel, and that omission became an embarrassment not to Roth but to the committee, which one observer suggested was “full of out-of-touch Swedish prigs.” Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z In an open letter to NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt, the Nobel Prize winners said that "preparing for war is neither amusing nor entertaining." Nobel laureates call for end to TV's "Stars Earn Stripes" 2012-08-14T00:26:36Z The concept also serves as the main throughline of "Sisters," an Australian drama that opens on an elderly Nobel prize-winning scientist and fertility expert. HBO's unflinching "Baby God" corrects pop culture's tendency to treat fertility fraud lightly 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z The annual prizes, meant to entertain and encourage global research and innovation, are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research as a whimsical counterpart to the Nobel Prizes which will be announced next month. Banana peel study, ugly art research win Ig Nobel spoof awards 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The Nobel prize many expected, and thought his due, did not arrive in time. Chinua Achebe: leader of a generation 2013-03-26T13:44:53Z Perhaps the fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves, to quote another promising poet who died too early to win a Nobel Prize. Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Capitol by Trump supporters, a time when other officials resigned or distanced themselves, and less than two weeks later sent a tweet promoting Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has book out this fall 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z In his wonderfully cranky Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner exhorted his fellow writers to create from the heart, not “the glands.” Faulkner and Other Ghosts Sing Through Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z When the French novelist Patrick Modiano won the Nobel Prize in literature this fall, his work was virtually unknown here. Nobel Gives French Novelist U.S. Boost 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z “That!” she recalls her husband’s having laughed at the thought of a Joyce Carol Oates Nobel Prize. Books Of the Times: The Shock Of Losing A Spouse 2011-02-14T05:27:15Z This would be the rough equivalent of Barack Obama’s winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z “In times like these, the Nobel Prize is important,” Heldin said. A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Yet losing the presidency to Reagan led to Carter's subsequent life as an international statesman, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. In 'A Full Life,' Jimmy Carter at 90 remains a wise truth teller 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Separately, Martelly said he is moving ahead with a campaign pledge to restore Haiti's army despite opposition raised by some people, including Nobel peace laureate and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. Haiti president to host Oprah Winfrey during visit 2011-12-10T02:54:12Z The two performed the tune in December at the Nobel Peace concert in honor of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in Oslo, Norway. India.Arie readies 5th effort with Israeli singer 2011-03-03T14:07:26Z We must have a campaign to get Abreu the Nobel peace prize. Simon Rattle: Abreu deserves the Nobel peace prize 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z One of this year’s Nobel Prize winners for medicine previously saw his findings on how cells respond to changes in oxygen levels rejected for publication. Not so fast: Many Nobel winners endured initial rejections 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Nobel Prize winners, academics and economists are interviewed, and while they mention numerous reasons for these meltdowns, hubris is often cited as the chief culprit. Review: ‘Boom Bust Boom,’ a Pythonesque Look at Financial Crashes 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z "Running from Crazy" explores the bravado of Ernest Hemingway - the boozing, bullfight-loving, womanizing Nobel Prize winning author - and how it concealed a troubled soul. Mariel Hemingway runs from crazy at Sundance 2013-01-22T19:01:05Z Joyce Carol Oates, a novelist whose name is often mentioned as a possible Nobel winner, tweeted: “Ishiguro very deserving. Beautiful melancholy work. Favorite is ‘Never Let Me Go.’ After the Bob Dylan Nobel prize backlash, will honoring Kazuo Ishiguro ‘make the world happy’? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The remains of the Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda are to be removed from his grave in Chile as part of an investigation into his death nearly 40 years ago. Pablo Neruda's body to be exhumed over Pinochet regime murder claims 2013-04-08T09:00:00Z The Nobel Prize in literature always eluded him, although he was a frequent contender. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T12:44:00Z Efforts by Chicago schools to connect with students worldwide helped the city net this week's World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, experts say. Nobel prize laureates gather in Chicago 2012-04-23T11:00:00Z They were awarded a 1962 Nobel Prize for this momentous achievement. ‘Photograph 51’ puts female scientist’s work under the microscope 2013-01-30T23:37:54Z Yet its reputation as an intellectual and cultural hub still lingers — five Nobel Prize winners are associated with the city, including the economist Amartya Sen and the poet-novelist-painter-songwriter Rabindranath Tagore. 36 Hours in Kolkata, India 2012-11-22T15:12:44Z "I am honored to attend the Nobel Peace Prize Concert this year and participate in this historic and momentous event to help spread the message of global peace," Washington said in a statement. Denzel Washington to host Nobel Peace concert 2010-09-30T12:34:00Z Princeton University is the new home of various writings and manuscripts from Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, the school announced Friday. Toni Morrison's Papers to Be Housed at Princeton 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Is it possible that the Nobel committee might finally reverse the ignoble treatment of what we call “nonfiction writing” and admit that it is literature? Nonfiction Deserves a Nobel 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize is awarded to a living writer for his or her body of work. Who will win the Nobel Prize in Literature? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Saying that her writing process was unchanged by the Nobel - after a "few mental tricks" cleared the fog of success from her mind - Morrison tries to challenge herself with every book. At home with Toni Morrison 2012-05-07T14:13:08Z For years I haven't thought about the Nobel prize at all. Mario Vargas Llosa surprised and delighted by Nobel prize win 2010-10-07T17:47:00Z The Swedish Academy has tried to increase the diversity of considered authors, after facing criticism that, before Thursday’s announcement, 95 of the past 118 Nobel laureates were European or North American, and only 16 women. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, she earned the unofficial title of the "Lioness of Iran" for what admirers saw as her courage in the face of official censorship. Poet Behbahani, 'lioness of Iran', dies at 87: state media 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Parsons: We’re obviously on this Nobel trajectory which is going to wrap. ‘Big Bang Theory’ stars reflect on show’s end, next steps 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z After escaping, she became a spokeswoman for other endangered Yazidis, and she is one of two laureates for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. New in Paperback: ‘Lou Reed,’ ‘The King Is Always Above the People’ 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z It helped him win the Nobel prize in literature in 1958. Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas wanted Doctor Zhivago movie rights 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The band recently toured with the Nobel Prize winner for about six weeks. Rock-band Dawes has learned a lot from Bob Dylan 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Later, at the Nobel banquet, I sat across from the American ambassador—a beautiful, articulate Iranian-American. Patti Smith on Singing at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Dylan became the first songwriter to win the Nobel award in literature, and immediately divided opinion on social media. Bob Dylan's Spotify Streams Skyrocketed After Nobel Prize Win 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “You are never going to be a writer unless you write that book,” declared Lewis, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “Elmer Gantry” and “Babbitt,” as Mr. Conrad recounted the moment recently. A Novelist Makes Good on His Promise to Sinclair Lewis 2011-01-26T16:25:50Z “I meet a lot of rocket scientists, Nobel laureates, people playing at very high levels academically,” Nye says. Star talker: Neil deGrasse Tyson on fame, education and tweets 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Check back for more coverage of Bob Dylan’s Nobel win. Bob Dylan in The New Yorker 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z I had used a passage from Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” as my book’s epigraph, but so explicitly nudging my work into line with that of a Nobel Prize winner felt arrogant, unseemly. Our Autofiction Fixation 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z “We have Nobel Prize winners asking if they can guest-star on the show.” ArtsBeat Blog: Emmys Watch: Johnny Galecki of 'The Big Bang Theory' 2011-09-15T17:15:07Z In this week’s issue, the New York Times staff book critics discuss the history, meaning and limits of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z He'd won the Nobel Prize for Literature two years earlier, giving him great international prestige. Chile's communists want Neruda's death probed 2011-05-31T22:27:23Z He won the Nobel Prize in 1965, primarily for his work on QED, which provided the complicated mathematics to describe the even smaller particles and forces that we examine below. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z Later, Blanche also championed Albert Camus and energetically campaigned for his Nobel Prize. Blanche Knopf: The complicated woman behind a powerful literary brand 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The Nobel Foundation had warned that another group could be picked to award the prize if the academy didn’t improve its tarnished image. 2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Would he recommend winning the Nobel prize as an adventure to a writer? Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z The Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner produced a quietly meditative work in 1985 that pointed toward the mysterious quality of existence, the inability to fully understand our own natures. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature, announced Thursday, Oct. American songwriter Bob Dylan wins Nobel in literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The Nobel is awarded to "the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction". The Booker steps away from being its own genre 2012-07-28T08:00:02Z An intriguing possibility is Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, whose work is notoriously challenging but who recently won the Man Booker International prize — racking up other awards can be seen as a path to the Nobel. Will Don DeLillo win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The Nobel winners in other categories are being named throughout the week, beginning Monday with the prize for medicine. ArtsBeat Blog: Nobel for Literature to Be Awarded Thursday 2011-10-03T14:52:30Z Ressa will also have to get court approval to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10. Filipino journalist reflects on Nobel Prize win at Harvard 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The Nobel Prize winner’s final book before her death in August unpacks the corrosive public and private pain of discrimination but always returns to her belief in the artist’s ability to reimagine the world. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z When a Nobel Prize winner like Ms. Morrison has also signed on, it pretty much sanctifies the experiment and prevents any single person from embodying a carnitas burrito. Got a Best Seller? Chipotle May Come Calling. 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The Nobel in literature comes with a prize of more than $1 million. Not-the-Nobel Prize in Literature Is Announced 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z A Massachusetts cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later co-founded an anti-nuclear war group that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Last year, a Belarusian who pens oral histories made a surprisingly strong showing in Ladbrokes’ betting — nonfiction is rarely recognized by the Nobel committee — but Svetlana Alexievich went on to win. Will Don DeLillo win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Tomas Tranströmer, a Swedish poet who received the Nobel Prize in literature in 2011 for a body of work that made him known as a “master of metaphor,” died March 26. Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z “At a moment of rising nationalism, autocratic leadership, and widespread disinformation around the world, the literary community deserves better than this. We deeply regret the Nobel Committee on Literature’s choice.” Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Kandel was awarded a 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his discovery of molecular processes that underlie learning and memory. A Nobel Laureate Asks What Makes a ‘Disordered Mind’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The petition - whose signatories also include a Roman Catholic bishop and a Nobel Laureate scientist - is part of a $1 million national newspaper and television advertising campaign funded by environmental groups and unionists. Blanchett, other prominent Aussies back carbon tax 2011-05-30T11:23:09Z He won virtually every prize short of the Nobel and wrote such classics as American Pastoral and Portnoy’s Complaint. Philip Roth Says He’s Done with Fiction 2012-11-09T21:51:09Z O’Neill did not, in fact, win the Nobel Peace Prize. Cultural Clicks: “Game of Thrones” Art, FKA Twigs, and Ice-Cream-Themed K-Pop 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z I like the scene where he accepts my Nobel. The sheikh and I: Ghostwriting for a crown prince in exhile 2013-01-12T14:00:00Z The literature award was the last of this year's Nobel Prizes to be announced. The Latest: Chilean president congratulates Dylan 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z So be prepared to contemplate a question he’s asked contentiously by a friend when he wins the Nobel: Whose life did his book improve? A Debut Novel Reimagines the C.I.A.’s Efforts to Promote ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z And that even winning a Nobel doesn’t guarantee self-esteem. Review: Michael Lewis on Two Well Matched (but Finally Mismatched) Men 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The Center draws on work by more than 50 economists, including three Nobel Prize winners, and looks at cost-effective ways to fight everything from climate change to malaria. Violence at home costs $8 trillion a year, worse than war: study 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z He was nominated at twelve years old — and three times since — for the Nobel Peace Prize. The “rage to master”: What it takes for those scary-smart kids to succeed 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Or from the Nobel laureate George Stigler, whose essay “The Intellectual and the Marketplace” would have leavened Bacevich’s book with something it lacks: wittiness. The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Bob Dylan has been accused of borrowing heavily for part of the Nobel Literature Prize lecture he finally delivered to the Swedish Academy last week. Bob Dylan accused of borrowing some of Nobel lecture from study guide 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z In four different pieces, Arceneaux takes the blacked-out sections, abstracts them and superimposes them on a recent account of King’s children fighting over ownership of the reverend’s Bible and Nobel Peace Prize. Edgar Arceneaux reflects on King's legacy at Susanne Vielmetter 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z In her Nobel lecture, Glück made what she sees as an essential point about her poetry: Her reader is an audience of one. The symbiotic relationship between poets and the garden 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z She won a Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for her classic novel "The Good Earth," the poignant and accurate story of the sad lives of Chinese peasants. 'Pearl of China': Anchee Min's version of the life of Pearl S. Buck 2010-04-07T22:30:00Z July 13 — Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist whose works lacerated apartheid in South Africa, dies. 2014: A good year for book lovers The Nobel laureates also expressed their support for a protest against the show scheduled for Monday afternoon outside NBC's New York headquarters. Desmond Tutu calls for axing 'Stars Earn Stripes' 2012-08-13T20:40:10Z When I meet the Nobel laureate in a London hotel, she clutches my arm and whispers: "I am a broken person." Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z And we hear from the Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka why, after decades on the front lines of his country's political battles, he has decided to retire from public life. Guardian Books podcast: Wole Soyinka, Kishwar Desai and Jason Wallace 2011-01-14T11:17:32Z He is the first person from Tanzania to win a Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The Nobel is hugely merited and I suspect Vargas Llosa will be very pleased. Mario Vargas Llosa: an unclassifiable Nobel winner 2010-10-08T10:50:00Z Bob Dylan was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday morning. Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z And if an author is overlooked there, there's still hope for the ultimately literary award: The Nobel Prize in literature, a recognition of a lifetime's achievement given to authors from all over the globe. Man Booker International and the Independent's Foreign Fiction Prize merge 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Coetzee, a Nobel Prize winner from South Africa, studied mathematics and linguistics and was a computer programmer before he became a writer. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Born Valerie Fletcher in Leeds, northern England, on Aug. 17, 1926, Eliot was the second wife of the U.S.-born Nobel literature laureate. T.S. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:43:10Z Despite winning a MacArthur “genius grant” and a National Medal of Science, among other prestigious awards, he never won a Nobel Prize — science’s marquee honor. A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z This method of photographing the invisible was discovered by two physicists in the same year, 1896; both won Nobel Prizes. Review: Japanese Photographers Reflect on the Fukushima Catastrophe 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z On Dec. 6, the American poet Louise Glück received this year’s Nobel Prize in literature. The symbiotic relationship between poets and the garden 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z “After all, they won the Nobel,” she says, a comment that says more about the filmmakers’ desire to puncture the pretensions of their bourgeois targets than it does about this pathetic woman. Movie Review: ‘Child’s Pose,’ a Family Drama Set in Romania 2014-02-18T22:25:20Z All that changed when he won the Nobel Prize, which propelled him to international fame. Imre Kertesz, Hungarian author who won Nobel Prize, dies at 86 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Once upon a time, an interviewer was talking to Le Guin about her many books and multiple awards when she teased him by saying that she hadn’t won a Nobel Prize. At 86, Ursula K. Le Guin is finally getting the recognition she deserves — almost 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z When it boasts about the Nobel Prize count, “Hothouse” sounds like a movie studio in the throes of Oscar fever. Books Of the Times: In ‘Hothouse,’ Boris Kachka Tells the Farrar, Straus Story 2013-08-08T20:34:15Z The laureates receive them at an elegant ceremony on Dec. 10 — the anniversary of Nobel’s death in 1896 — in Stockholm and in Oslo. 2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Gore won the Nobel prize, along with an Oscar, for his 2006 global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." Prince Charles' environment film to air in U.S. 2010-04-27T23:11:00Z The British playwright, who died in 2008, was a Nobel laureate and is widely considered one of the most important dramatists of the 20th century. The Wooster Group runs into problems with Harold Pinter production 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Bruno rudely said she would “never win the Nobel Prize.” 'Dancing With the Stars': Salsa and Cheese on Latin Night 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z It is one of literary history’s more eerie and repulsive facts that Hamsun, the author of “Hunger” and other classics, gave his Nobel Prize as a gift to the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Why Name Your Book After Hitler's? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z And the feeling was mutual: Trump often said that he thought the Enquirer deserved journalism’s highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize — something about as likely as Bill O’Reilly winning the Nobel Prize for literature. Perspective | Trump once wanted the National Enquirer to win a Pulitzer. Now it may prove his downfall. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison died on Monday night of complications from pneumonia, a representative from her publisher Alfred A. Knopf confirmed. Remembering Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize-winning author dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z He was quite free to write before he won the Nobel. Chinese writers avoiding key issues amid censorship fears, says author 2013-02-06T13:11:00Z For all the care invested, not to mention the perfect timing of the Nobel Prize, the epilogue of “The Code Breaker” contrasts sadly with our current reality. A Biography of the Woman Who Will Re-Engineer Humans 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz criticized Trump for failing to address the climate emergency beyond a commitment that the U.S. will join the trillion trees initiative. Trump mentions little on climate at meeting of leaders in Switzerland 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z No mention was made of Dylan's Nobel prize for literature, and his non-attendance at the annual Nobel award ceremony in Sweden. Bob Dylan says 'not yearning' for old days in latest cover album 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Shechtman was the sole winner of the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2011, for his discovery of seemingly impossible crystal structures in metal alloys. Dan Shechtman: 'Linus Pauling said I was talking nonsense' 2013-01-06T00:07:04Z The Nobel Peace Center is just off the ferry dock, and who was speaking to a crowd of thousands as I arrived? Frugal Traveler Blog: A $100 Weekend in Oslo 2012-06-26T18:55:24Z Grossman portrays the secretary of state as “a thousand-year-old necromancer,” which may be the most plausible explanation yet for his Nobel Peace Prize. ‘Crooked’ review: Nixon narrates his story in this comic alt-history 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Harris and Glennie will receive their awards, often referred to as the Nobel Prize for music, June 9 in Stockholm. Emmylou Harris, Evelyn Glennie awarded 2015 Polar Music Prize 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The question of authenticity is front and center in any evaluation of Dylan getting the Nobel Prize. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Our writing is seen as being "too isolated, too insular," according one Nobel committee member. Book trends in 2016: Paper is popular, science fiction rises, long-form nonfiction dips 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The Nobel Foundation, which funds the award, raised serious concerns about the committee’s governance. Perspective | The Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature. It’s still broken. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Successive presidential administrations sought their insights, and Nobel prize-winners adopted their critiques. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In 2017, Behn accused Spacey of groping him under the table at a Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo a decade earlier. Ari Behn, Spacey accuser and ex of Norwegian princess, dies 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z About five years ago, Ankhi Mukherjee, a professor of world literature at Oxford University, received a letter asking whether she wanted to nominate someone for the Nobel Prize in Literature. How to Choose the Nobel Laureate: Tap a Literature Professor 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Grandees of high culture have been wheeled out by all of them, notably Derry's Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, but mass involvement played a larger part in the detail of the bids. Derry celebrates culture capital success 2010-07-15T19:41:00Z When Vargas Llosa was awarded the 2010 Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy praised his "cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z This isn’t the first year without a Nobel Prize in literature. With No Nobel Prize in Literature This Year, Another Award Steps In 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Bosnian officials in 2019 boycotted the Nobel awards ceremony for Handke and Sarajevo’s regional parliament also denounced the Swedish Academy for giving the award to him. Bosnia Serbs honor controversial Nobel Literature winner 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Let’s give the last word to the Chilean Nobel laureate in literature, Pablo Neruda: “He who does not know the Chilean forests, does not know the planet.” Take the long view: Chile revisited 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z His Nobel Prize citation noted, “In him, West Indian culture has found its great poet.” Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The neuroscientist writes about his lab’s scientific advances, his accomplishments, and personal revelations since he won the Nobel Prize in 2000. Newly Published, From Che Guevara to Sapiens 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z He has received nearly every literary award worth winning -- including the Nobel Prize in 2001. V.S. Naipaul hangs up travel hat after Africa book 2010-10-27T21:07:00Z The awards were established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel — the inventor of dynamite — and are always handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of his death in 1896. Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2010-10-07T11:48:00Z He won the Nobel Prize in 2011 and is considered a modern icon. Read Your Way Through Stockholm 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The saga of Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize continues. Bob Dylan’s Silence on Nobel Prize Is Called ‘Impolite and Arrogant’ by Academy Member 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Sands spends about an hour there, recounting anecdotes about his personal experiences working with Pinter, the Nobel Laureate, who died in 2008. For Theater Lovers, a City Is the Stage, and a Purple Cow Is a Prop 2011-08-12T22:44:06Z I fully intended to say that I was indifferent to the charade of the Nobel; that it’s madness to believe that literary excellence can be conferred by committee. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Gordimer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, died peacefully at her Johannesburg home on Sunday evening in the presence of her children, Hugo and Oriane, a statement from the family said. South African anti-apartheid author, Nobel winner Gordimer dies 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z So come, and let us praise the Nobel committee for its honorific omission, this majestic absence that joins Philip Roth to Mark Twain, James Joyce and Tolstoy: He has something in common with each. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z I thought of Patrick Modiano, the Nobel Laureate whose novels often use the conventions of crime stories but offer little resolution or satisfaction. Camille Laurens’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” Is a Fascinating Hybrid, and Obsessed with Obsession 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z While her classmates in England may have gone to field hockey practice or to the movies after school on Friday, Malala accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Why Malala's Story Sounds Like Another Story You Already Know 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z He found recognition in academic circles, becoming Professor of Poetry at Oxford University and lecturing at Harvard University, and won the Nobel prize for his "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth". Ireland mourns 'keeper of language' poet Seamus Heaney 2013-08-30T17:44:08Z “If the Nobel Committees can give a peace prize to Henry Kissinger then it can give a literature prize to a man who hasn’t written any literature,” Tim Stanley wrote in Britain’s Telegraph. Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize: He brought sophistication to the language of popular music like no one else 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z His Nobel prize was met with some criticism because of his close ties with the Chinese authorities. Director Xie slams China censors 2012-12-17T11:13:10Z Between them, organizers said the signatories had 18 Olympic gold medals, 44 Bafta awards, one Nobel prize and two Turner prizes. Mick Jagger joins celebrity push to keep Scotland in the UK 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z For at least a decade, Ms. Ugresic’s name often came up when critics and industry watchers indulged in their annual speculation about who might win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dubravka Ugresic, Who Wrote of Dislocation and Exile, Dies at 73 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Nobel decided the physics, chemistry and medicine should be awarded in Stockholm, and the peace prize in Oslo. 2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Piñon’s work has won awards at home and abroad, including the prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, considered Spain’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Nélida Piñon, Provocative Brazilian Novelist, Is Dead at 85 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z On Thursday morning, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z April 13 — German writer Günter Grass, the author of the classic novel “The Tin Drum” and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, dies. Book news 2015: Nostalgia, blockbusters and controversy 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Though Dylan was long rumored to be a contender for the Nobel, the possibility had attained a kind of mythical, some might say comic, status. Does a musician have any right to win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In Oslo, he looks outside to see a crowd of people holding candles, the flames flickering in the dark night, and one senses that this moves him more than the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony itself. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z In fact, the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to researchers who identified molecular mechanisms that control the process. These Lights Are Like a Mood Ring for Your Room 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The sons’ humiliations climax with the oldest, Gregory’s, tumultuous speech at a luncheon after Bellow accepted the Nobel Prize. Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z There will also be a banquet in the winner’s honor, just as there would be for a Nobel laureate. An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015, captures the stark, beautiful and astounding oral histories of Russian female veterans. How Can People Be Persuaded to Eat Less Meat? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist, died on Monday at 87. Looking Back at Günter Grass's Life and Work 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Nobel laureate Morrison's 10th novel is an intense, striking read, though some critics found the book moved too briskly to develop and deepen her abiding themes of violence and fortitude, horror and love. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z Narrowing the scope — “Selma” begins with Dr. King’s acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in December 1964 and ends in Montgomery a little more than three months later — poses its own challenges. In ‘Selma,’ King Is Just One of Many Heroes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z In the original cartoon as well as the new film, which opens Friday, Mr. Peabody is a Nobel laureate, a master inventor and a fabulous dinner party host. A career comeback for Mr. Peabody 2014-03-06T19:34:07Z He irritated his centrist friend Octavio Paz, the late Mexican Nobel literature laureate, by playfully referring to Mexico's political system - dominated at the time by a single party - as "the perfect dictatorship." Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z The friend was Shigeru Ban, winner of that year’s Pritzker Prize — architecture’s Nobel — for building refugee and disaster relief camps from inexpensive, sustainable materials such as cardboard tubing and bamboo. Turn the Korean DMZ into a bridge of peace? Why major artists say the idea isn't crazy 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The capital that forms the base for the awards was donated in the will of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and is managed by the foundation, which was set up in 1900. Nobel laureates in line for even bigger pay-day 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z More than four decades after Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel prize for exposing the horrors of Stalin’s purges, Russian literature is again returning to the subject, examining an unhealed wound. Russian novel tells story of survival, love in Stalin’s camp 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z "We certainly expect to grow Mario's sales dramatically in the wake of the Nobel with a novel so fixed in British and Irish political and cultural history." Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa finds perfect protagonist in Roger Casement 2010-10-18T18:19:00Z Now, in a 27-minute speech recorded on Sunday and released on Monday by the Nobel Foundation, the artist ponders that very question. Bob Dylan Gave a Very Deep Lecture About His Nobel Prize 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Korea isn’t the only country whose government has taken an active role in making its literature more visible to the Nobel committee. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Streams of Bob Dylan’s songs spiked on Spotify after his surprise Nobel Prize win on Thursday. Bob Dylan's Spotify Streams Skyrocketed After Nobel Prize Win 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The real Nobel prize winners will be announced next month. “Beer goggles,” and opera-loving mice win the Ig Nobel Prizes 2013-09-14T19:00:00Z When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature, he was — as is so often the case — barely a name to most American readers. ‘Suspended Sentences’: An eloquent taste of the 2014 Nobel Prize winner in literature On Wednesday at 8 p.m., for example, the economist Thomas Piketty joins Paul Krugman, a Nobel laureate and columnist for The New York Times, and Joseph Stiglitz, also a Nobel winner. Spare Times Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, and Philip Roth, surely the greatest living writer not to have won the Nobel, might head most lists. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z The foundation cut the size of the Nobel Prize in 2011 to 8 million from 10 million and began cost savings after a decade of overspending. Nobel laureates in line for even bigger pay-day 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Now, with his Nobel year in the rearview, he’s done serving the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The award is always handed out Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896. Denzel Washington to host Nobel Peace concert 2010-09-30T12:34:00Z Decades of suppressing her own talents and desires in support of her husband’s career begin to unravel when he wins the Nobel Prize for literature and a biographer probes the couple’s life. Like 'The Wife,' Glenn Close says she's a late bloomer 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z But Bob Dylan's silence since he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature might mean he never sees the award money. The $900,000 question behind Bob Dylan's Nobel prize 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z At the Anthem on Tuesday night, the 76-year-old Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner only added to his reputation for intrigue, performing a 20-song show that felt both riveting and oddly removed. Review | A Bob Dylan concert is still as challenging as ever. But why try to change him now? 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The film also includes clips from an interview Prince Charles did about the environment in 1988 with future Nobel Prize winner Al Gore. NBC plans special on prince's environmentalism 2010-04-27T17:15:00Z Through a series of Hail Mary passes, he’d begun talking with Dylan’s team about the possibility of me and the Nobel Prize winner publishing the song together for the first time. How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan: A 57-year collaboration about my home state of Wisconsin 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z What is certain is that by settling in the USSR, Pontecorvo missed out on at least one Nobel prize. Frank Close: What I'm thinking about ... Higgs Boson and nuclear spies 2012-08-18T09:36:59Z Singer wrote much else besides short stories, but these are what he deservedly got the Nobel for. Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer ? review 2011-08-11T13:30:02Z The women in my family knew that long before the Swedes threw her a Nobel party. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “Whenever I pitched her books to editors, I always said, this is an author who’s going to win the Nobel Prize,” she said. Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z He wants to make billions and win Nobel Prizes, by backing projects like a “Bliss algorithm” and a “Nirvana helmet.” Edward St. Aubyn Wraps Serious Thoughts About Science in an Entertaining Package 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z The Hemingway award was founded in 1976 by Mary Hemingway, widow of the Nobel laureate. Teju Cole wins $10,000 prize for first novel 2012-03-07T01:31:06Z Satyarthi joins a handful of Nobel Peace Prize winners with ties to India - even though the most famous peace activist of them all and father of independent India, Mahatma Gandhi, never received the honor. Pakistani teen, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Neruda won the Nobel Prize in 1971, and died two years later at 69. Rediscovered Pablo Neruda Poems to Be Published 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The German Nobel laureate, who died this morning at age 87, was not just a novelist but also a political figure, a voice of conscience, a provocateur. How will Guenter Grass be remembered? 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Mario Vargas Llosa in New York after the announcement of his Nobel prize for literature. Faber to publish new Mario Vargas Llosa novel 2010-10-18T11:37:00Z The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the official orchestra for the Nobel Prize ceremonies, opened the festival Tuesday night with compositions from across the region. Kennedy Center opens Nordic Cool cultural festival 2013-02-20T22:01:13Z Thomas Mann was a Germany novelist and writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. Germany buys California house built by writer Thomas Mann 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “He’s the genuine article: uncommonly serious and complex of thought, but not unmirthful, and not sobersided. And he’s immensely readable. What else would you want from a Nobel laureate?” After the Bob Dylan Nobel prize backlash, will honoring Kazuo Ishiguro ‘make the world happy’? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z “Like many psychologists,” he writes, “I love to teach the arresting, Nobel Prize-winning discoveries of the infirmities that afflict human reason” along with “the intellectual tools of sound reasoning.” In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Thunberg, a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, said while she grew even more knowledgeable about climate change, there were moments that surprised her, like meeting with Polish coal miners. Greta Thunberg docuseries amplifies her climate change fight 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z A single sentence, “winner of the Nobel prize in literature,” posted on the page for The Lyrics 1961-2012 earlier this week is now gone, according to the Guardian. Bob Dyland Removes Nobel Prize Acknowledgment From Website 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Ralph Bunche, the venerable diplomat and the first African-American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, disavowed King’s “radicality” with all the dignity befitting his station. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The prize was introduced in 1901 according to the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and industrialist, five years after his death in 1896. From afar, Dylan muses on honor and surprise of Nobel prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Eligible nominators, which include university professors, scientists, members of national governments and previous Nobel Prize laureates, submit the names of potential candidates each year. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In his will, dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel instructed the academy to pick “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.” Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Photograph: Keystone USA-Zuma/Rex Features The architecture of the Olympic Park, Chinese author Mo Yan winning the Nobel prize for literature, Ten Billion at the Royal Court – and of course, the Queen's skydive. What are your 2012 cultural highlights? 2012-12-05T18:59:00Z A chance Google search coincided with the Galleri Nobel robbery, and he connected with Kysilkova for what he thought would be a short film. The Painter and the Thief: behind the year's most moving documentary 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z In her Nobel lecture, delivered in Stockholm earlier this month, the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk surveyed the world of letters with dismay. One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Faulkner won the Nobel Prize four years later. Books of The Times: ‘The Long Voyage,’ a Collection of Malcolm Cowley’s Thoughts 2014-02-11T19:43:52Z In the breakfast room, I was greeted by many of the Nobel scientists. Patti Smith on Singing at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Jude, age 2 * As mentioned, the award of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the Al-Khawaja family would constitute the prize’s first acknowledgment of the epochal Arab Spring movement as such. A worthy, necessary Nobel honoring the Arab Spring — and much more 2013-01-11T01:00:00Z The Swedish Academy described Munro as the "master of the contemporary short story" when it awarded her the Nobel prize earlier this month, likening her work to that of 19-century Russian author Anton Chehkov. Ill health keeps Canadian author from Nobel ceremony: academy 2013-10-18T09:58:42Z “For me, it’s the pinnacle, the top, unless you want to give me a Nobel Peace Prize,” Johnson said. ‘Sesame Street,’ Sally Field and Linda Ronstadt are among this year’s recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z There was some good news in the land of books this week: The Nobel Prize in literature was announced. Books: Nobel goes to Kazuo Ishiguro, the narrative legacy of Las Vegas, Jesmyn Ward and more 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Weeks later, Greta won the 2019 Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — “for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts.” Greta Thunberg won’t accept environment prize. She wants the focus on research. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z In a family that was a generation removed from illiteracy, Asturias’s books and his Nobel stood for our right as guatemaltecos to claim to be people of letters. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z When you win a Nobel, she said, "nobody gives you anything after that because they feel they can't match it". Beautiful Minds and Celebrity Roast 2010-04-07T23:05:00Z Dylan’s Nobel Prize is a wonderful moment — a wonderful moment for literature. Why Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to the book world 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z When Mr. Fo received the Nobel in 1997, some literary experts were aghast and admitted they had never heard of him. Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z According to the Swedish Academy, Mr. Romer earned his Nobel, more specifically, “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.” Arts Meets Science and Chemistry Wins the Day 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The Nobel Peace Prize winner apparently sort of likes reality TV. 'Being Mandela:' Granddaughters dish on show 2013-02-08T12:32:10Z The winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The Nobel Foundation said in a statement that Dylan this week told Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, that he now accepts the prize. Bob Dylan now says will accept Nobel prize for literature 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z As a Nobel prize-winning physicist of course, also as the key component of the investigating commission into the Challenger space shuttle disaster. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; The Fantastic Mr Feynman – TV review 2013-05-13T06:00:25Z Notable for its absence is the Nobel Prize itself. Footsteps: Where a Poet’s Vision Lives on in India 2013-02-01T18:07:13Z When, in 1966, Kennedy visited Chief Albert Luthuli, the South African civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner living in internal exile, he is thought to have delivered a letter from King. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z As the interview wrapped up, Mr. Muratov returned to the subject of the Nobel medal and the auction house selling it, whose name, he said, was “not a coincidence.” Russian Journalist to Auction Nobel Medal to Benefit Ukraine 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Behbahani, who died Tuesday after a week in a coma, was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize. Simin Behbahani, poet and 'Lioness of Iran,' dies at 87 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z She is often mentioned on shortlists of women who might win the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z However, Ladbrokes and other betting sites are not especially skilled at Nobel laureate predictions. ArtsBeat Blog: Dylan Tangled Up in Nobel Prize Speculation 2011-10-05T17:14:37Z After weeks of speculation about the contenders, who was it who eventually won this year's Nobel prize for literature in October? Books quiz of 2010 2010-12-24T10:13:35Z He was like the Cary Grant of the existentialists and he was the youngest writer to ever win the Nobel prize for literature so how about that? Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles: 'I'm out on the open road now' 2012-10-28T19:18:08Z Among Nobel laureates of recent vintage, only Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the prize in literature last year, has delivered as much pure pleasure as the Portuguese novelist José Saramago. Books of The Times: A Cautious Memoirist Who Ends With a Laugh 2011-05-10T20:49:38Z Liu was awarded the Nobel peace prize last week "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China", in a ceremony in which he was represented by an empty chair. Book of Liu Xiaobo poetry to be published in English 2010-12-13T15:50:00Z Sure, maybe you already knew him as a respected British biochemist and Nobel prize winner. Of course Richard Dawkins comes to Tim Hunt’s defense: Protesting sexism isn’t a “baying witch-hunt,” except in his own mind 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z It is one of Britain’s most talked-about publishing houses, with a reputation as the English-language imprint of choice for Nobel Prize winners. How a Tiny British Publisher Became the Home of Nobel Laureates 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Fans of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter will be seeing double this season. New Broadway Season Has Something for Everyone 2013-08-28T15:15:27Z You can also find, on the website, menus from every Nobel banquet going back to 1901. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z To Nadine Gordimer, a fellow Nobel laureate, he was simply "the father of African literature". Chinua Achebe: leader of a generation 2013-03-26T13:44:53Z Buck's novel "The Good Earth" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and helped earn her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Newly found Pearl S. Buck book is to be published 2013-05-23T15:00:10Z The Nobel website contains fripperies it once did not. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z In his will, Nobel bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to create five annual prizes honoring ingenuity. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z With European novelists dominating recent Nobel literature awards, experts are guessing the Swedish Academy will look farther afield when it announces the 2010 winner on Thursday. Poets buzzed about for Nobel literature prize 2010-10-06T18:47:00Z The jewelry was part of Sotheby's "Magnificent Jewels and Nobel Jewels" auction, held in Geneva after going on display in London, New York and Rome. Actress Gina Lollobrigida's diamonds fetch $4.9 million at auction 2013-05-15T02:00:11Z “We love the Nobel Prize, and we were so sad when they said it wasn’t to be awarded,” Ms. Pålsson said. With No Nobel Prize in Literature This Year, Another Award Steps In 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z “I do not want to be remembered for ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’ nor for the Nobel Prize,” García Márquez wrote, “but for the newspapers.” New in Paperback: ‘Running Home’ and ‘The Shadow King’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z It was a striking choice by the Nobel committee to honor a writer whose work is woven from intensely personal and often ordinary experiences. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Bob Dylan, the 2016 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has written a speech that will be read at the annual awards banquet in Stockholm, the Nobel Foundation announced Monday. Bob Dylan won't be at the Nobel ceremony; Patti Smith singing instead 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Tolkien, despite the snub, was not in bad company; Robert Frost and E. M. Forster were also considered by the Nobel jury that year but were dismissed, the BBC said, “because of their advanced years.” ArtsBeat Blog: Tolkien Snubbed by Nobel Prize Jury, Papers Reveal 2012-01-06T14:48:14Z Her husband did not immediately learn that he had won the Nobel Prize as he was on a plane bound to Munich, she said. Nobel medicine laureate May-Britt Moser almost did not take the call 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, 81, had a novel out in the spring and has said she's working on a new one. Roth retires but Wolfe, Wouk among authors past 80 2012-11-20T12:59:09Z She remains the only person to hold Nobel prizes in two sciences. Marie Curie tops BBC History poll of women who changed the world 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Tutu, who adds it to honours including the Nobel peace prize, said he was "totally bowled over". Desmond Tutu wins Templeton prize for advancing 'spiritual progress' 2013-04-04T04:01:01Z It wasn’t until he won the Nobel that I took another look. Bob Dylan Found Them, Whether They Knew It or Not 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Hemingway was awarded the Nobel prize for literature for work including The Sun Also Rises and Death in the Afternoon, both of which were lovingly devoted to the culture of Spanish bullfighting. Lost script reveals what Orson Welles really thought about Ernest Hemingway 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z He said part of the Nobel was thanks to support he had received in his adopted homeland. Mario Vargas Llosa surprised and delighted by Nobel prize win 2010-10-07T17:47:00Z There was a sighting of the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z A few items from García Márquez's archive at the university are already online, including a recording of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and letters he wrote to President Jimmy Carter and Salman Rushdie. Gabriel García Márquez's 24,000-page archive to be digitized 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z In 1971, Robert Graham founded the Repository of Germinal Choice, informally called the "Nobel Prize sperm bank". From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z The Nobel Prize in 1936 capped the decades of his greatest celebrity and influence. A new biography of Eugene O’Neill looks beyond the playwright’s demons Despite winning the Nobel prize, Kipling's reputation has suffered over his association with British imperialism – he was described as a "jingo imperialist" by George Orwell, who also called him "the prophet of British Imperialism". 50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered 2013-02-25T15:31:38Z The year was 1995, and as The Times noted, “This was an evening spent with three icons of American culture, who hold among them two MacArthur grants, a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize.” Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z “We’ve had to endure abuse, assaults by the police, insults from the right-thinking and violence,” Mr. Fo said in his Nobel lecture. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The awards are always handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. Nobel jury picks literature prize winner 2010-10-01T13:01:00Z And, as soon as the Nobel’s nonfiction barrier is, at last, broken, the fact that it ever existed will come to seem absurd. Nonfiction Deserves a Nobel 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Bruce Weinberg, an economist at Ohio State, found that economists who won the Nobel Prize later in life were creative synthesizers of information they accumulated in one area over a long time. Creativity may be key to healthy aging. Here are ways to stay inspired. 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z The Nobel committee praised him at the time, saying, "His message is one of peace, atonement and human dignity." America mourns heroes, rock icons and sporting legends in 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z In 2016, the Swedish Academy shocked, delighted and, yes, outraged the world by awarding the Nobel Prize in literature to American musician Bob Dylan. After the Bob Dylan Nobel prize backlash, will honoring Kazuo Ishiguro ‘make the world happy’? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 Not surprisingly for a writer, it is the language used to talk about the president which concerns her. Toni Morrison on America and race 2012-10-06T03:08:43Z She explained how the politics of her country inhabited her work as a writer in her Nobel acceptance speech. Nadine Gordimer, critic of apartheid and Nobel laureate, has died 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z In awarding the Nobel to Mr. Fo, the Swedish Academy noted that he “emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden.” Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z When he turned to assessing the new memoir, Mr. Irving wrote: “No one I know who’s actually read ‘Peeling the Onion’ wants Grass to give back his Nobel. Looking Back at Günter Grass's Life and Work 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z She will give her Nobel lecture in the United States because of coronavirus travel restrictions, said Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Pow! by the latest winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Mo Yan, was first published in China 10 years ago. Book reviews roundup: Pow!, Sorry! and The Love-Charm of Bombs 2013-01-25T22:55:02Z Last year, Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Pakistani to receive the award. Malala Yousafzai wants leaders to invest in #booksnotbullets 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The organization, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for its campaign against torture, made its name by working for the release of political prisoners. A new mission for Amnesty International: Bringing human rights home For these reasons, winning a Nobel Prize could actually have a downside for the country’s literary culture. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Consider: Before this year, only 14 women had won the Nobel Prize in literature. Perspective | The Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature. It’s still broken. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The New Academy Prize in Literature differs from the Nobel in several ways: Instead of the Nobel’s cloistered deliberations, the New Academy prize was selected by a mix of librarians, readers and judges. Maryse Condé Wins an Alternative to the Literature Nobel in a Scandal-Plagued Year 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Awarding him the Nobel, the Swedish Academy praised his writing for its "incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories". VS Naipaul withdraws from Turkish event after row over Islam comments 2010-11-24T15:18:00Z Dan Shechtman's Nobel prize celebrated not only a fascinating and beautiful discovery, but also dogged determination against the closed-minded ridicule of his peers, including leading scientists of the day. Dan Shechtman: 'Linus Pauling said I was talking nonsense' 2013-01-06T00:07:04Z “It’s just great to give a songwriter the Nobel Prize, but not just a songwriter,” Case said. Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The New Academy was founded by more than 100 Swedish cultural figures earlier this year as a response to the scandal and the postponement of the Nobel. Maryse Conde wins alternative literature prize in absence of Nobel 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The title is a reference to the Nobel Peace Prize, which hangs in the background of the story like a guilty conscience. On Netflix, the Borders Remain Open 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize winner was terrified the Nazis would find them. Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Yet in his day this Belgian playwright and symbolist poet, who won the 1911 Nobel prize for literature, pioneered drama built out of stasis, silence and lack of overt conflict. The Blind/The Intruder – review 2013-04-08T16:41:31Z The Nobel Prize in medicine was announced Monday and will be followed by physics prize on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday. Literature Nobel Prize to Be Announced Thursday 2013-10-07T14:26:03Z As it happens, the book contains Mr. Transtromer’s account of watching the Nobel ceremony on television on Dec. 10, 1975 — 36 years to the day before he will collect his laurels. ArtsBeat Blog: Poet to Poet: Graywolf To Publish Bly-Transtromer Correspondence 2011-12-07T21:59:03Z I wanted something by the Nobel Prize winner and Kolkata native Rabindranath Tagore, and after asking around, I found a book of his short stories at a shop called Bani Library for just 95 rupees. In Kolkata, a Love of Literature, Fried Street Food and, Mostly, Sweets 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The daughters of President Barack Obama, entertainers, a Nobel laureate and a girl baseball player all made Time's annual list of most influential teenagers, the magazine said on Monday. Obama girls, Malala Yousafzai, Tavi Gevinson make Time's 'influential teens' list 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The 2012 Nobel Peace laureate is to be named on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and the prize in economics is to be announced on Monday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z That said, Nobel does believe that technology can be a temporary relief for loneliness, and that we should absolutely continue to explore these products. Boyfriends for rent, robots, camming: how the business of loneliness is booming 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Photograph: William Robinson/Alamy Patrick White was one of those writers who won the Nobel prize for literature because he really deserved it. Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z After all, they were not handing out Nobel Prizes. On the Runway Blog: Eunice Johnson and the Best Dressed List 2012-08-03T17:39:05Z The 7-foot double-helix sculptures placed throughout the city get their shape from the DNA molecule, which Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick helped discover. Spiral Sculptures by Top Architects and Designers Take Over London 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z This Nobel laureate writes a broad, humanizing tale exploring the effects of China’s one-child policy, just as that policy fades into obsolescence. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z "The Academy will then hand over Dylan’s Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature." Dylan to receive Nobel prize in Stockholm: Swedish Academy 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z At the time of her Nobel nomination last year, social media sites were brimming with insulting messages. Pakistan's Malala: idol to the world, outcast at home 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Mo told Der Spiegel, adding that since he won the Nobel, his critics "use magnifying glasses to look for my flaws and they even distort the meaning of my poems". Mo Yan dismisses 'envious' Nobel critics 2013-02-28T14:43:20Z The Swedish Academy has selected the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature and will announce the decision next week after a formal vote, the panel's spokesman said Friday. Nobel jury picks literature prize winner 2010-10-01T13:01:00Z In the small library off the entrance, he hosted delegates from Russia and Japan, who resolved their conflict and secured a Nobel Peace Prize for the president. Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill Home Cries ‘Bully!’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” in the words of the Swedish Academy. Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The media-shy Dylan declined to attend the Nobel ceremony on Saturday. Bob Dylan to perform in Sweden in April after Nobel no-show 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The development of antibiotics was such a major advance that in 1945 Fleming and two other doctors received a famous award called the Nobel Prize. Ever wondered about antibiotics? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z “Winter Recipes from the Collective,” Louise Glück’s first poetry collection since winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2020, feels as much like an ending as it does a beginning. Review | Louise Glück’s first collection since her Nobel gracefully captures our fragility 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z I want one of them to cure cancer or win the Nobel Peace Prize or be the first woman president. ‘They never saw this coming’: A Q&A with Kellyanne Conway 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z After months of suspense and typically inscrutable standoffishness, Bob Dylan, the elusive Nobel laureate, will finally accept his literature prize at a meeting with members of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm this weekend. Bob Dylan Will Receive His Nobel Prize While on Tour in Sweden 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In addition to Frank Ocean protesting the upcoming Grammys, we also saw Bob Dylan distance himself from the Nobel Prize in literature he was given earlier this year. No charts, no Grammys, no Hall of Fame: Why pop greatness requires talk and time 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z “To receive the Nobel Prize is, for me, a responsibility to continue,” she said. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In his Nobel speech, Wiesel spoke majestically of the need to ameliorate suffering, which “applies also to Palestinians, to whose plight I am sensitive, but whose methods I deplore when they lead to violence.” Postscript: Elie Wiesel, 1928—2016 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z In a statement released Friday, the Nobel Foundation said this year’s administrative pause “will help safeguard the long-term reputation of the Nobel Prize.” Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The austere Nobel laureate's 1961 drama requires an actress to spend the better part of two hours talking almost incessantly while planted in a hole in the ground atop a godforsaken mound of dirt. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Almost 30 years later, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. A History of the Heart, That Most Vital of Organs 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The Academy, founded in the 18th century to safeguard the Swedish language, picks the winner of the Nobel Prize only in the field of literature. Poet quits Swedish Academy after being found to leak Nobel winner... 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Joe receives a call informing him that he’s been awarded the Nobel Prize. Review: ‘The Wife’ Looks Behind the Closed Doors of a Literary Marriage 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z This turned out, nevertheless, to be the warmest reaction Vargas Lhosa has elicited so far, as other critics administered the kind of beatings recent Nobel winners traditionally receive. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-06-01T21:55:12Z However, the society is so debased and degraded at this point that she will no doubt win the Nobel Prize 40 years from now for golden nuggets like "Shake it Off." Taylor Swift, Entering a New Era, Sticks to a Safe Space: Tumblr 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z In September, I was approached to sing at the Nobel Prize ceremony, honoring the laureate for literature, who was then unknown. Patti Smith on Singing at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z "The Nobel Foundation will share information as soon as it is available." Bob Dylan now says will accept Nobel prize for literature 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureate has lived in this converted boathouse since the late 1970s, when she spotted a "For Sale" sign while driving by and soon agreed to pay the then-impractical sum of $120,000. At home with Toni Morrison 2012-05-07T14:13:08Z All that said, there are plenty of nonfiction writers who don’t think of what they do as art; simply delivering information shouldn’t make someone a candidate for the Nobel. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Patrick Modiano, the French writer whose novels center on topics like memory, identity and guilt, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Patrick Modiano Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Patrick Modiano, a French author whose work deals with memory, identity and the impact of the Nazi occupation on his home country, won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. French Novelist Patrick Modiano Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Europeans have won an overwhelming number of the literature prizes in the last decade; the last American writer to win a Nobel was Toni Morrison in 1993. Swedish Poet Wins Nobel Prize for Literature 2011-10-06T11:58:05Z O'Neill, who died in 1953, is the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. Yale library acquires 'lost' Eugene O'Neill script 2011-10-19T17:22:12Z Daniel Kahneman — one of the fathers of the field of Behavioral Economics and a Nobel Laureate — and his colleagues called these "heuristics." I have developed disease models. Here's why COVID-19 projections can seem inconsistent 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Predictions for the Nobel Prize in Literature tend to be all over the place, especially in the final hours before the winner is named. ArtsBeat Blog: Dylan Tangled Up in Nobel Prize Speculation 2011-10-05T17:14:37Z But there is a silver lining to our continued Nobel drought: if it reminds us of how wide the world of letters is, perhaps it will also remind us of the narrowness of our own. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z Evoking a Trinidadian performance of the Hindu epic “The Ramayana,” Walcott begins his 1992 Nobel Lecture by celebrating the hybrid beauty of Caribbean civilization. In Praise of Derek Walcott’s Epic of the Americas 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z “A theater, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time,” he said in his Nobel lecture, “has no relevance.” Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But to mark enduring achievements, would its members ever yearn for a Women's Nobel Prize in physics? Are Hollywood awards by gender out of touch? 2013-01-24T13:24:09Z According to The Guardian, 66 authors were put forward for the literature Nobel in 1962, and the list was narrowed down to Steinbeck, Robert Graves, Lawrence Durrell, Karen Blixen and Jean Anouilh. ArtsBeat: No Wrath, but Some Discontent, When Nobel Prize Was Awarded to Steinbeck 2013-01-04T14:51:16Z It was written by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z “Early next year a decision on whether a Nobel prize for literature can be awarded for 2018 and 2019 must be taken.” Nobel literature body rejigs committee after sex scandal 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Morrison, who died on Monday, was the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the most beloved writers of the twenty-first century. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z A running joke early on in the narrative is that Ezra, like Mr. Roth, is a constant runner-up for the Nobel. Lisa Halliday’s Debut Novel Is Drawing Comparisons to Philip Roth. Though Not for the Reasons You Might Think. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z He is considered a top Japanese candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. New volume of Murakami novel goes on sale in Japan 2010-04-16T01:26:00Z As I read this extract – from William Faulkner’s Nobel prize acceptance speech – I hand a plastic spoon to my voice coach every time I arrive at an important word. The rise of ‘accent softening’: why more and more people are changing their voices 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z More than one writer suggested that Dylan follow the path of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who in 1964 was awarded the Nobel but refused to accept it. Why Bob Dylan’s Impact Is Bigger Than His Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The screen adaptation of the novel by the Nobel literature prize-winning U.S. author is the second by Franco, who in 2013 directed, wrote the screenplay and starred in an adaptation of "As I Lay Dying". Franco draws crowds in Venice, his Faulkner film gets barbs 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z South Korean poet Ko Un and Syria's Adonis are generating the most buzz among Swedish Nobel watchers, while betting agencies are giving lower odds to Ngugi wa Thiong'o of Kenya and American novelist Cormac McCarthy. Poets buzzed about for Nobel literature prize 2010-10-06T18:47:00Z Before he wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” the novel that shook up the world of Latin American letters, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez worked as a screenwriter in Mexico. Essential Arts & Culture: Zumthor's latest LACMA plan, USC's big art hires, a reparations debate, Streisand's Sondheim 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Some of the bitterness around Dylan’s Nobel comes from the fact that he’s primarily a musician. Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize: He brought sophistication to the language of popular music like no one else 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z And we learn that after Dr. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, tickets to the mayor’s formal celebratory dinner were not being purchased. National Center for Civil and Human Rights Opens in Atlanta 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z His Nobel itself was seen by some as a satirical commentary on the part of the Swedish Academy. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z This is a report from the frontier of cosmic thought, as fresh as last month’s Nobel Prizes, uncompromising in its intellectual ambitions and discerning in its choice of compelling scientific issues. Television Review: ?The Fabric of the Cosmos? on PBS?s ?Nova? - Review 2011-11-01T22:43:25Z Never mind the Nobel Prize for Literature, he deserves an Oscar for his lifetime dedication to playing this part. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Era and Extinction of Rock Stars 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Or the writer of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech? Memorial Review: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Opens in Washington 2011-08-25T12:00:00Z And my daughter learned Mandarin and when we were at the Nobel peace prize we were on the stage, speaking Mandarin. Jada Pinkett-Smith: 'Parents introduce me to their kids saying: "She's Gloria!"' 2012-05-24T19:30:10Z He formed a lasting friendship with his compatriot Samuel Beckett, one that survived the award of Beckett's Nobel prize in 1969 and all the pressures that went with it, although meetings became more sparse. Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, editor, and educator, is as formidable as any of the steely characters in her books. Toni Morrison doc filmmaker on her banned books: "People are afraid ... of powerful black women" 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Instead, they promise to get their gropey house in order and then give Nobel Prizes to two writers next year. Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Foreigners tend to know Neruda, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, through his love poems and possibly through the sentimental depiction of him in the 1995 Italian film “Il Postino.” Pablo Larraín on His Latest Films, ‘Jackie’ and ‘Neruda’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Dario Fo, the Italian playwright, director and performer whose scathingly satirical work earned him both praise and condemnation, as well as the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Thursday in Milan. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z It was a perfect confluence of high art and low art: Nobel Prize winner and Playboy. Harvey Weinstein Remembers Gabriel García Márquez 2014-04-23T14:38:13Z His first short story was published in a literary journal in 1981, the biography on the Nobel Web site said. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z Language, territory and conflict dominate the work of Nobel prize laureate Herta Müller. The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller – review 2012-11-21T08:00:07Z The Swedish Academy's surprise choice Thursday thrilled some and disappointed others, who felt giving the award to Dylan made a mockery of the prestigious Nobel Prizes. Times a-changin': Nobel jury says lyrics can be literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z What did you think of Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature? Phil Collins, pop star and self-deprecating dad, on his new memoir 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s just as well there will be no Nobel Prize in literature this year. Perspective | Philip Roth died before he could win a Nobel Prize. He didn’t need it. 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in climate change, and received an Academy Award for “An Inconvenient Truth.” Al Gore: Examining the ‘drivers of global change’ 2013-02-07T22:02:57Z The Nobel academy praised her "finely tuned storytelling, which is characterised by clarity and psychological realism". Alice Munro wins Nobel Literature Prize 2013-10-10T12:51:40Z "It's sort of a cross between a Nobel Prize and being the fourth batter for the New York Yankees," he said in an interview from his home in New York. Stuntman, documentarian among early Oscar winners 2012-11-30T15:42:08Z The Nobel laureate is the author of the novels "Beloved," "Song of Solomon," "Sula" and more than a dozen others. Happy birthday, Toni Morrison! 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z The medals are given in the same month as the Nobel prizes, said Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. David Rubenstein to receive 2015 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The New Academy Prize was set up as a substitute for last year’s Nobel Prize and gained global attention by involving the public and Swedish librarians in choosing its winner, the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé. Two Nobel Prizes in Literature to Be Awarded This Year After Scandal 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Bridging science and the humanities, Kandel, a Nobel laureate in medicine, offers a refreshingly holistic look at mental illness. New in Paperback: ‘The Disordered Mind’ and ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Norman Borlaug won a Nobel prize for developing high-yielding varieties of dwarf wheat in the late 1960s which, if fed with water and fertiliser, would grow large heads without falling over. Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash by Fred Pearce | Book review 2010-03-27T00:10:00Z After Glück won the Nobel Prize in October, Pre-Textos submitted an offer for translation rights, but Wylie chose to go with a different publisher, he said. Dispute Erupts Over Translation Rights to New Nobel Laureate 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z After just six novels, Morrison in 1993 became the first Black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, earning praise from the Swedish academy for her “visionary force.” Women’s Hall of Fame honors Aretha Franklin, Morrison, Lacks 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The physics award will be announced Tuesday, followed by chemistry on Wednesday and the Nobel Peace Prize two days later. Nobel jury picks literature prize winner 2010-10-01T13:01:00Z When Ms. Alexievich won last year, it was a rare instance of a nonfiction writer being honored by the Nobel committee for her artistic achievement. Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Mann himself, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929, called his craftsmanship “thoroughgoing.” Review | Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ imagines the adventurous life of a literary great 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Alfred Nobel wrote in his will that the prize should go to “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.” The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Soyinka was honored with a Nobel Prize for Literature for his plays, essays and books. Nigerian authors look West to gain their fame 2012-01-26T11:21:09Z When they handed Pinter a Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy said that he “uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms.” 'Being Harold Pinter' ★★★★ 2011-01-28T04:46:37Z She was the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, awarded in 1993. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z He's a UN goodwill ambassador for HIV/Aids, he's helped to raise money for refugees from Swat, and he played at the Nobel peace prize ceremony in 2007. Salman Ahmad, Sufi rocker 2010-05-20T11:29:00Z And the precedent for giving a literary award to a musical artist was strengthened last year, when Bob Dylan accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature. Stephen Sondheim to Receive PEN Literary Award 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Last year, American rap artist and actor Will Smith and his wife, the actress Jada Pinkett Smith hosted the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, honoring the 2009 peace prize laureate and Smith fan Barack Obama. Denzel Washington to host Nobel Peace concert 2010-09-30T12:34:00Z The Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton, a 2015 Nobel Prize recipient, say such men are dying of drug overdoses, drink-induced liver disease and suicide — what they call deaths of despair. How the White Working Class Is Being Destroyed 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who earned a Nobel for his peaceful opposition to apartheid, on Tuesday urged Cape Town's renowned opera troupe not to tour Israel until what he calls discrimination there ends. Tutu urges South African opera not to tour Israel 2010-10-26T14:08:00Z Normally the literature award is announced in the same week as the other Nobel Prizes — which are set for next week — but Wastberg said this year will be different because of the academy's schedule. Literature Nobel to be announced Oct. 13, later than usual 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z ACT Theatre on Friday opens its Pinter Festival, dedicated to the work of the late British dramatist and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. ACT Theatre celebrates Pinter with monthlong festival 2012-07-19T20:12:10Z The film’s subject won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research into the workings of the brain. 2010-01-08T03:32:00Z The three biologists who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology had absolutely no idea what might happen when they fed male fruit flies chemicals that they hoped would cause mutations in the flies’ sperm. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z Suu Kyi is scheduled to visit Dublin on June 18, a day after collecting her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Forget Gaga; Indonesia wild for own raunchy shows 2012-05-30T13:48:00Z In his Nobel lecture, he said the impulse came “in my homesickness and amidst the anguish of a stranger’s life.” Abdulrazak Gurnah Refuses to Be Boxed In: ‘I Represent Me’ 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z During the Second World War he was friendly with Alexis Carrel, a Nobel Prize-winning surgeon asked by the Vichy government to explore means of “national renewal.” Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Danius said earlier this week that the notoriously media-shy Dylan would not hold the traditional Nobel lecture this weekend, but that a taped version would probably be sent at a later point. Mystery surrounds Nobel prize handover as 'intimate' Dylan gigs in Sweden 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Some cheered the spectacle of a musical icon thumbing his nose at the Nobel Prize, while others seemed to share Mr. Wastberg’s frustration with a musician known for his aloofness. Bob Dylan’s Silence on Nobel Prize Is Called ‘Impolite and Arrogant’ by Academy Member 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z The trio will share a $918,000 cash prize and will each receive a gold medal and a diploma December 10 — the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896 — in Stockholm, Sweden. Scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on lithium-ion battery 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z And their recurrence, as well as the very act of Nobel Prize betting, demeans both the winners and the losers. Don't Bother Betting on the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Yousafzai said she had found out about winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday from a teacher during a chemistry lesson, adding that the news had come as a big surprise. Pakistani teen, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z "Of Mice and Men" is widely considered one of the best books by Steinbeck, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' survives censorship attempt in Idaho 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z In other races, Glenn Close looks certain to take her first Oscar, for best actress, for portraying a submissive spouse to her Nobel Prize-winning writer husband in “The Wife.” Topsy-turvy season gives Oscars a best picture cliffhanger 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Nobel committees have announced prizes so far this week in physics, chemistry and medicine. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z Nobel prizes are given annually to honor the highest achievements in science, literature and peacemaking. 3 win Nobel Prize in chemistry for world’s tiniest machines 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Instead, the movie bounces between Burma and Britain, where Aris is shown being a househusband raising their kids and mounting the campaign that wins her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. 'The Lady': Michelle Yeoh is perfectly cast as Myanmar's Suu Kyi 2012-04-12T20:08:04Z In so doing he sold millions of books in dozens of languages and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: More than magical realism 2014-04-17T23:01:34Z Aris, an Oxford professor, never wavered in supporting Suu Kyi's decision to stay in Myanmar, raising their children and playing a key behind-the-scenes role in campaigning for her Nobel Peace Prize. For Michelle Yeoh, "The Lady" is role of lifetime 2011-09-13T17:24:54Z “Whenever there’s talk over who’s getting the Nobel Prize, I somehow feel as if I have done something wrong,” she said. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z I’m certain that’s one of the components the Nobel committee is rewarding with today’s announcement: Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The association describes the award as recognition of “lifetime achievement in the arts in categories not covered by the Nobel Prizes.” ArtsBeat: Ozawa and Dench Among Winners of Rich Prizes From Japan Art Association 2011-07-11T15:29:17Z Pow! is his first novel to appear in English since the Nobel honour. Pow! by Mo Yan – review 2013-01-18T21:00:03Z “Before you wish for Korean authors to get the Nobel Prize, you have to show interest in Korean literature,” he said. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The literature date completes the schedule for this year's Nobel Prize announcements, which start Monday with the medicine prize, followed by physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Literature Nobel to be announced Oct. 13, later than usual 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In 1932 Galsworthy would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; Conrad, of course, is now universally regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. Review | The literary tastemaker who helped bring Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster to light 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The Bible and a second key item, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to King in 1964, were placed back into a bank vault. Why no major Martin Luther King Jr. artifacts will be at the new African American museum 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z The U.K.-based Tanzanian author was awarded the Nobel Prize in October for novels that explore the impact of migration on individuals and societies. Nobel Prizes awarded in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s about her tangled relationship with the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing, a rhinoceros of a personality, with whom she lived for four years while a teenager. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Photographs of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi hang by images of Nobel Peace Prize winners he inspired. Houston art exhibit showcases Gandhi and history of nonviolence 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize for literature is one exception, with laureates receiving nearly $1 million. New Literary Prize Will Award Over $100,000 to a Female Novelist 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The checklist was nine pages long; I didn’t recognize most of the names, but some of them had Nobel prizes and had written poems that I studied in high school. #MeToo and Encounters That Resist Easy Moralizing 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z “Instead of Oscars season, it would be Nobel Prize season,” she continued, “and he would handicap who should’ve won.” For Sandra Tsing Loh, Change is Good 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z His memoir offered a highlight reel of snarky critiques of authors — the Nobel laureate V.S. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z “When you think of the American poets who have not gotten the Nobel, it’s daunting,” she said. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z With the prize, Yousafzai, 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner, eclipsing Australian-born British scientist Lawrence Bragg, who was 25 when he shared the Physics Prize with his father in 1915. Pakistani teen, Indian children's right activist win Nobel Peace Prize 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z She's pulling her guest list from her personal rolodex, which is full of Nobel Prize winners and leaders in the science, medical and technology fields, deep thinkers and interesting people. Naomi Judd gets her own call-in radio show 2012-06-01T10:31:10Z “It’s like actually real literature,” he explained, evidently agreeing with the committee that awarded the Nobel Prize to Mr. Dylan in 2016. Plunder My Songbook, Bob Dylan Said. So He Did. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1902 – for the theory of radioactivity that she developed with her husband, Pierre – and the first person to receive the award twice. ArtsBeat: Meryl Streep to Participate in Alan Alda's Marie Curie Play 2011-05-09T19:09:48Z The woman is Gabriela Mistral, a Chilean poet, educator and diplomat, who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet. 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Mo was hailed by the Nobel committee for merging "folk tales, history and the contemporary" with "hallucinatory realism". Mo Yan's Nobel nod a 'catastrophe', says fellow laureate Herta Müller 2012-11-26T13:36:08Z “Other countries give them, like, a Nobel Prize. We give them a year’s supply of fast food.” Got a Best Seller? Chipotle May Come Calling. 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The prize for literature will be announced Thursday, the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and the economics award on Monday. Scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on lithium-ion battery 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Louise Glück, one of America’s most celebrated poets, for writing “that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Canetti, the Bulgarian-born Nobel laureate who wrote in German, has a unique perspective on the hyperinflation that hit the Weimar Republic, and which Hitler exploited for his political ends: The Books We’re Turning to Now 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Later that year, King would earn a much-deserved Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racism. The Beatles in Jacksonville, 1964: Inside the Fab Four's historic stand against segregation 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z And please, let's stop imagining that just because he's a very good and very popular writer, he shoudl get the Nobel Prize. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The Nobel academy is also recognizing, as it failed to do when the time was right, the entire Beat tradition, into which Dylan flows and which flows into Dylan. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Despite humanity’s inevitable chess ability sag, the age at which the average Nobel laureate gets their gong is pretty late. The age when you hit 'peak loneliness' – and other life milestones 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, Mo Yan - the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, , comparing it with airport security checks. Director Xie slams China censors 2012-12-17T11:13:10Z It is emphatically a family house, with the strange twist that there just happen to be photographs of a Nobel laureate on almost every shelf. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z And then, in 1930, the crowning moment of his career: He became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Bob Dylan will, indeed, accept his Nobel Prize in Literature — probably. Bob Dylan Speaks, at Last, on His Nobel 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z When she won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, those books were barely known in the English-speaking world. Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z His antiwar stance was even given as a reason for denying him the Nobel Prize in Literature. Leo Tolstoy vs. the Police 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Photograph: AFP Adonis, a Syrian poet, is rumoured to be among the top candidates for the Nobel prize for literature, which is to be awarded tomorrow. Why Adonis should win the Nobel 2010-10-06T14:00:00Z It features previously unseen footage alongside more than 150 artefacts such as clothes, campaign posters and travel documents on loan from the family of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and museums and archives worldwide. Mandela's life and legacy celebrated in London exhibition 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Morrison’s unimpeachable, sure, but isn’t that the problem: that she’s too great, and has one too many Nobel Prizes, to be participating? Seven authors we wish were writing for Chipotle cups 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The scientist was discussing data with colleagues in their lab when she was called by the secretary general of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute. Nobel medicine laureate May-Britt Moser almost did not take the call 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z According to the new novel by Nobel laureate Dario Fo, however, this is nothing but “creative embroidery in the fine art of scandalmongering.” ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z He spent a portion of his Nobel Lecture in 2017 giving an explication — which owed a considerable debt to SparkNotes — of Melville's great novel. Bob Dylan contains multitudes: Walt Whitman as Dylan's muse on "Murder Most Foul" 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z We’re about to launch into a survey of the Australian Nobel laureate, Patrick White. The Best Book That Amor Towles Ever Received as a Gift 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z But 50 years after that momentous conference, the reasons for inviting the Kenyan author to accompany at least one of his Nigerian colleagues into the Nobel hall of fame are compelling. Why Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have won the Nobel prize for literature 2010-10-08T09:48:00Z When Keaton was asked where he’d put his Oscar statuette, he drily replied, “Next to my Nobel.” Birdman Soared, But Selma Stole the Show at the Oscars 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Morrison, who won the Nobel in 1993, was the last American author to have been recognized by the Swedish committee, which has been accused of having an anti-American bias. Who will win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z In his will, Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel specifically designated the Swedish Academy as the institution responsible for the Nobel Prize in literature. 2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Not just Nobel and Man Booker prize-winners but great thinkers from across the spectrum. Edinburgh festival organisers plan VIP tie-up with Olympics 2011-08-12T20:19:04Z The playwright, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature a few years before his death in 2008, has long been part of the establishment. Clive Owen and Sam Rockwell hit Broadway in 'Old Times' and 'Fool for Love' with different results 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Munro, the 17th Canadian to win a Nobel Prize, lives in Clinton, Ontario, near where she grew up. Alice Munro: 7 Things to Know About the Nobel Winner 2013-10-10T16:20:36Z He's the first American winner of the Nobel literature prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. Dylan's music increases by 500 percent following Nobel win 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Several events will focus on Russian publishing and literary history will be made when Natalia Solzhenitsyn, widow of Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, unveils her husband's archives. Publishing industry gathers for annual convention 2012-06-04T11:39:13Z Xiaobo, the dissident who is currently serving 11 years in jail for "subversion", won the Nobel peace prize in 2010, sparking an angry reaction from the Chinese authorities. Nobel winner Mo Yan speaks up for jailed 'subversive' Liu Xiaobo 2012-10-12T10:06:40Z On Friday — the anniversary of the death of prize founder Albert Nobel — there will be a celebratory ceremony at Stockholm City Hall for a local audience, including King Carl XVI Gustav and senior Swedish royals. Nobel Prizes awarded in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Beckett won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969 for "writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". Beckett manuscript sells at auction 2013-07-10T11:44:24Z And Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the authors of color whose works are now most banned and challenged. Call it a Toni Morrison celebration: Banned Books Week 2016 will honor diverse writers 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Ensuring that it is interesting, clear and simple enough to grip a general reader yet accurate enough to satisfy a Nobel prizewinner. Roger Highfield on science writing: 'Grab them with your first sentence' 2013-03-20T07:00:01Z When he performed in Tulsa last month, at a theater just a few blocks away, the Nobel laureate made no acknowledgment of the institution in his honor about to open just down the street. The $10 Million Bob Dylan Center Opens Up His Songwriting Secrets 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z He began writing stories after his first army stint, later naming Kafka, Faulkner and Mr. Agnon, the Nobel Prize-winning Israeli author, as formative influences. A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z It was no surprise to learn that, when his daughter called to tell him he had won the Nobel Prize, he was walking down a street. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Winning a Nobel Prize is as much politics as anything else. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z He created several public monuments across Scandinavia and designed the medal for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded in Norway. In Oslo, Gustav Vigeland’s sculptures capture a Norwegian essence 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The words of Morrison’s Nobel acceptance speech from 1993 still ring with relevance: Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z That or el maestro, or, in Colombia, Nuestro Nobel, our Nobel Prize winner.” Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z The Nobel committee might also, to wake everyone up, award the prize to a writer with only a novel or two under his or her belt. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z At the time of the gift, Heaney, 72, was a global bardic presence, a Nobel laureate wreathed in acclaim as one of the leading poets in the world. ‘Listen Now Again’ Is a Tasting Menu of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z A Dutch scientist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work understanding the ozone hole and is credited with coining the term Anthropocene to describe the geological era shaped by mankind. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z When French writer Patrick Modiano was named winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this year, American readers were caught by surprise. Patrick Modiano accepts the Nobel, speaks of memory and oblivion 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Given the committee’s record of chauvinism and the need to rebuild its reputation after a shocking sex scandal, why not select a female writer for the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature? Perspective | The Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature. It’s still broken. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z MacMillan were named as laureates of the Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for finding an easier and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that can be used to make compounds, including medicines and pesticides. Nobel panel to announce 2021 prize for literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Several accomplished scientists were in the klatch that evening, and Deeda asked questions with her characteristic quiet intensity, as though she were conducting discreet but critical interviews on behalf of the Nobel committee. T Magazine: Deeda Blair’s Elegance of Conviction 2013-05-31T17:00:11Z As the Nobel committee was praising Yan's by turns "hallucinatory" and "realist" fiction, one prominent Chinese critic branded its decision an insult not just to literature, but to humanity. Pow! by Mo Yan – review 2013-01-19T19:00:07Z The Nobel committee did not originally want to include Curie in the award and only backed down after pressure from her husband. ArtsBeat: Meryl Streep to Participate in Alan Alda's Marie Curie Play 2011-05-09T19:09:48Z In a format similar to Michael Frayn’s science drama “Copenhagen,” Ziegler tells from different angles the story of Franklin’s role in the Nobel Prize-honored finding of the double-helix design of DNA. Female scientist’s life, work exposed 2013-02-08T20:26:09Z The announcements of the winners of the Nobel Prizes begin on Monday with the physiology or medicine prize. Swedish Academy to announce Nobel literature prize on Thursday 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Pyke, who was “like a figure on a Byzantine icon” to the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, led a life that would have made for a roaring good read from any biographer. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z “I swore never to be silent whenever, wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation,” he said, in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, in the fall of 1986. Postscript: Elie Wiesel, 1928—2016 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Ernaux has long been a favorite for the Nobel Prize, which is given for a writer’s entire body of work, and comes with an award of 10 million Swedish krona, or about $911,000. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z First of all, it proposes the Russian dramatist as a sort of precursor to the Irish Nobel Prize winner in his examination of futility as an existential component of human life. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The next year he won the Nobel Prize for literature. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z He may have won the Nobel Prize in 2001 but, from the start, he was a laureate of humiliation. V.S. Naipaul, a Writer of Many Contradictions and Obvious Greatness 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The Pritzker family founded the prize because of its involvement with developing Hyatt Hotel properties around the world and because architecture was not included in the Nobel Prizes. Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize 2013-03-17T19:08:09Z The Golden Notebook and The Grass Is Singing underpin a reputation that won their author the Nobel prize for literature in 2007. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z In the same interview, he said he did not expect to ever win the Nobel Prize because of the controversy. Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Mrs. Obama promoted a social media advocacy campaign for girls’ education, and Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Pakistan, received an ovation to rival the musicians’. Review: Global Citizen Festival, Including Beyoncé and Pearl Jam, Mixes Music and Activism 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Bob Dylan took almost a week to acknowledge online that he was awarded a Nobel prize, but removed mention of the prestigious award from his website far more quickly. Bob Dyland Removes Nobel Prize Acknowledgment From Website 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Still, not everyone applauded the Nobel committee’s decision. Readers Go Electric Over Dylan’s Nobel 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z When British novelist Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel literature prize in 2007, she was too ill to travel. The $900,000 question behind Bob Dylan's Nobel prize 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z When Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize, the American novelist was dismissed with the words, “Never heard of him.” Review: ‘Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife, the Untold Story’ The shy poet became a reluctant celebrity when she became the fourth Pole to win the literary Nobel Prize in 1996. Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T23:09:00Z Some were seen in annual corporate reports, and one was the model for an etching on a Swedish postage stamp honoring the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. Helen Marcus, Prolific Photographer of the Famous, Dies at 97 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z At 85, Mr. Nobel formed Open the Gate Pictures with his producing partner Colleen Murphy and made a short film “Glacier Bay.” James Noble, actor best known for role on TV’s ‘Benson,’ dies at 94 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Morrison, who was a professor emeritus at Princeton University, won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1988, for her novel “Beloved,” and the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1993. Toni Morrison in The New Yorker 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Shot in Swat Valley, the same area where Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, the film captures some of the region’s breathtaking scenery. Film 'Janaan' seeks positive global spotlight for Pakistan 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Right about this time of year is when the literary world would normally be praising, bemoaning or just scratching its collective head over the latest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z A lot of smart people I know are Bernie supporters, including the Nobel Prize winner in our building, who has the distinction of having a Bernie sign up even longer than we have. This feminist is sticking with Bernie Sanders: Why Hillary backers need to take another long, honest look 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z There was a time when many schoolchildren’s first exposures to poetry included the grave song of the Irish Nobel Prize winner, with its evocative place setter: Climbing the summits of Irish literature Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale of Mr. Muratov’s medal, has sold five former Nobel Prizes, including the one awarded to Watson’s co-discoverer, Francis Crick. Russian Journalist’s Nobel Medal Sells for $103.5 Million 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z The big test: an opportunity to show that the committee members could, in fact, carry on Alfred Nobel’s vague instructions to select “the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction.” Perspective | The Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature. It’s still broken. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced today. Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature Goes with a Well-Known Name 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z Mirren is in Israel to host the Genesis Prize, an award known as "the Jewish Nobel." Actress Helen Mirren rejects efforts to boycott Israel 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize winner writes about her affair with a married man in the 1980s. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z When Mr. Grass received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, the Swedish Academy credited the book with having granted German literature “a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.” Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Along the way he has been awarded the highest honours in the profession, including the Riba Gold medal and the Pritzker prize – the "Nobel of architecture". Richard Rogers: 'The street is where society comes into itself' 2013-07-11T06:00:02Z One of Poland's most acclaimed writers of recent decades, her humane and often ironic poems won a wider audience in 1996 when she won the Nobel prize for literature. Polish poet's will calls for new prize, foundation 2012-02-29T15:23:18Z Mr. Lang said he met Mr. Jean in December, when both appeared at events related to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Carnegie Benefit for Haiti: Tracking the Numbers 2010-03-25T21:51:00Z Dylan is perpetually mentioned as a possible Nobel Prize in literature winner, but mostly on the strength of his song lyrics. New book of Bob Dylan lyrics to sell for $200 -- and $5,000 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z He was the seventh Swede to win the Nobel for literature, and he was the only winner in nearly 20 years to be known mainly as a poet. Tomas Transtromer, Crystalline Swedish Poet, Dies at 83 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, an unwavering moralist who became one of the most powerful voices against the injustice of apartheid, has died at the age of 90, her family said on Monday. South African anti-apartheid author, Nobel winner Gordimer dies 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Handling the letters that belonged to the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer while boxing them for transport to the lab is a task library officials undertake with a focus and reverence worthy of holy relics. Dear Papa: Letters to Hemingway get crucial repair 2012-09-26T09:16:04Z Mr. Roth’s comment about “Portnoy’s Complaint” further reminds us that if the Nobel committee has a blind spot, it’s mostly for wit. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z In 1919, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts to create the League of Nations. DiCaprio to star as US president 2013-09-17T11:10:13Z The site says that the company has provided “expertise to the Nobel Prize winning team on intracellular hydration.” Counterculture to Counterintuitive: Cannabis to Help You Diet? 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Lessing tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, only the 11th woman to do so. Nobel prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing dies aged 94 2013-11-17T15:37:19Z Müller was awarded the Nobel prize for her depictions of the "landscape of the dispossessed" in novels that demonstrate "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose". Herta M?ller dodged Romanian secret police by proofreading in forest 2010-03-22T15:55:00Z A couple of years ago, when he won the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s Nobel, the press declared him a “prophet.” The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z He “fashions the drama of existence,” the Nobel committee wrote in 1986. Wole Soyinka Is Not Going Anywhere 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z He translated Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1970 Nobel lecture and delivered the keynote address at the International Conference of Translators of Russian Literature in Moscow in 2007. F. D. Reeve, Poet and Translator, Dies at 84 2013-07-08T02:48:30Z The Nobel Prize in Literature is the ultimate award for a writer. Who will win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z From 1901, when the Nobel Prizes were established, through 1932, Germans won almost a third of all the Nobels awarded to scientists — 31 in total. How Did a Gay Scientist of Jewish Descent Thrive Under the Nazis? 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z He’d thought himself capable of outwitting Toni Morrison, an African American woman who’d won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in a debate about Blackness and its profound creative relevance. Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z First, the Nobel Prizes and now the MacArthur fellowships, revealed Wednesday: highly remunerative honors that you can’t apply for, forever brand you as a genius and arrive, fabulously, with almost no strings attached. Meet the new MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z “And I did win the Nobel Peace Prize,” he added. WATCH: President Obama gives mock job interview to Stephen Colbert: “There wasn’t a lot of room for advancement at my last job” 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “Human beings have hundreds of thousands of years of biologic wiring,” Nobel said. Boyfriends for rent, robots, camming: how the business of loneliness is booming 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Nobel prizes are duly awarded to the gloomiest of them all, because – as JK Galbraith once observed – "Pessimism is the mark of superior intellect". Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky 2010-07-24T23:25:00Z Like a lot of readers, I wasn't overly familiar with Modiano when he won the Nobel Prize for literature this fall. David L. Ulin's best books of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Next April, when Mr. Murakami’s fans lather up about why he deserves a Nobel Prize in Literature, maybe they will cite that as meaningful. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Mario Vargas Llosa, the newest winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has never found much honor in boundaries. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z Mr. Obama started with an invitation to read works by the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, who died last week at the age of 88. Obama Shares His Summer Reading List 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z When Alexievich got the call that she had won the Nobel Prize, she reportedly exclaimed, “Fantastic!” Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Along with Alfred Nobel, Linnaeus is among this country’s most cherished national heroes. A Botanist in Swedish Lapland 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The 70-year-old actor was selected by a committee that included Nobel literature laureate Elie Wiesel. Michael Douglas to be honored by the Genesis Prize Foundation 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The Nobel Prize announcements begin Monday with the award in medicine, followed by physics on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday. Nobel literature award to be announced Thursday 2012-10-08T10:46:03Z For decades, he’d been going about his business, writing songs and playing them, and then — boom! — he’s suddenly a big Nobel literary cheese. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Dylan was grateful for the Nobel; he said as much in the brief remarks that he submitted to be read in absentia at the December ceremony. The Rambling Glory of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Speech 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Bob Dylan will not attend the Nobel ceremony in Stockholm next month to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy, which bestows the award, announced Wednesday. Bob Dylan Will Not Attend Nobel Ceremony 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Mo was a somewhat unexpected choice for the Nobel jury, which has been criticized for being too euro-centric. Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T12:40:17Z You can order the dessert that was served at last year’s Nobel banquet: lemon and cheese mousse with sea-buckthorn sorbet. Choice Tables: Delicious Desserts at Stockholm?s Cafes 2010-12-22T23:15:43Z The literary awards season kicks into high gear every fall, with the Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prize and National Book Awards often landing in quick succession. Booker Prize Is Rescheduled to Make Way for Obama’s Memoir 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Müller's lecture on winning the Nobel saw her lay out in detail the moment when the Securitate attempted to force her to sign a document describing herself as a collaborator. Herta M?ller dodged Romanian secret police by proofreading in forest 2010-03-22T15:55:00Z Exhibits explain how Nobel, who built the refinery Stalin defied, helped turn Batumi into a major commercial center. Next Stop: Glamour Revives Port of Batumi 2010-09-12T07:05:00Z Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan was not in attendance at the 2016 Nobel Prize banquet in Stockholm on Saturday, but the 2016 winner did send a surrogate to read his speech. Read the full text of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Banquet speech 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer used to say he liked writing for children because they didn't read the New York Times Book Review, they just liked what they liked. Oscars 2015: Plot twists and turns keep show fresh 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z The Nobel Prize winner turned a narrow, multistory Ottoman-era house into a home for all the objects his lead character collected over the course of the book. Seven Places in Europe We Call Home 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z In 1998, Chopra was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for “his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness.” Deepak Chopra Has Never Been Sick 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The Nobel season of the world's most coveted awards, each worth $1.1 million, opens on Monday with the medicine or physiology prize followed by physics, chemistry, peace and economics. Change looms for Nobel Peace Prize as chairman risks coup 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z That was $2,000 more than what the Nobel laureate will receive for the school’s commencement speech next month. Snookinomics: Profits From a Tan 2011-04-09T04:00:19Z I've not been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and may never be. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z He is also known for bestsellers such as “A Wild Sheep Chase,” “The Wind-up Bird Chronicle,” and “1Q84,” and is a perennial candidate for the Nobel Literature Prize. Library devoted to Japan novelist Murakami to open in Tokyo 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In “his mellifluous and curt voice,” the Nobel laureate asked his students “if they composed by hand or on a computer.” Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Morrison's reciprocal esteem for Leonard was so great that she invited him to accompany her to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize. 'Reading for My Life': a critic's lifelong engagement with literature 2012-05-16T18:47:03Z Mario Vargas Llosa, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, was a few seats away from me. Waiting for Luggage With Vargas Llosa 2010-10-07T18:17:00Z It contains Steinbeck's 1962 Nobel Prize acceptance speech and manuscripts recorded in his neat script on lined yellow paper. John Steinbeck's apartment archive to be auctioned 2010-06-16T14:48:00Z And there are a few bottles of fine French wine, which he could afford to imbibe after winning the Nobel Prize in 1949. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z “The Magician” is about Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning German author of “The Magic Mountain” and “Death in Venice,” among other works. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Because, he says, he “lusts to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. So the desire to believe is triumphant.” Review | At 80, Frederick Forsyth has produced a classic thriller that’s also eerily relevant 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z But he is far better known as a Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, free speech advocate, courageous dissident against Soviet repression, and tireless opponent of human rights violations everywhere. Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z Asked if he deserved the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature, he responded, “Frankly, no.” Review | John Steinbeck and biographer William Souder make a perfect pair 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z That work earned Messrs Crick, Watson and Wilkins a Nobel prize and a place in the history books. Breaking the code 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The Swedish Academy is typically the last of the Nobel Prize-awarding institutions to set the date of its announcement. Literature Nobel to be announced Oct. 13, later than usual 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Signatures included Nobel Prize winner Anthony Leggett, Pulitzer Prize winner Leon Dash and most of the university's endowed chairs and professors. U. of I. president says he did poor job of connecting with faculty 2012-03-08T19:46:00Z China disavowed its only literature Nobel Prize winner, Gao Xingjian, who left China for France in the 1980s to escape censorship, he won the prize in 2000. Chinese writers call for more translations 2011-08-26T11:11:09Z He once said, against the wisdom of the ages, “I do not want to be remembered for ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’ nor for the Nobel Prize, but for the newspapers.” Gabriel García Márquez, Journalist? A Book Revives the Novelist’s First Calling 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z So begins the mythology of Gabriel García Márquez, the magus of magical realism, a Nobel laureate who blended truth and fiction to fit the outsize reality of Latin American life. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “We die,” Morrison said in her Nobel acceptance speech. Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z He has surely enjoyed success — secretary of state, winner of the National Book Award and the Nobel Peace Prize — yet always in chorus with charges of sin. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z I met with Brother Anthony hours before the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature was named. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The international recognition magnified by King’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize apparently especially rankled Hoover. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z He is also the new permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. Books of The Times: ?The Beauty and the Sorrow,? by Peter Englund - Review 2011-11-10T22:18:39Z There is increasing agreement that the Industrial Revolution ushered in a new climatic period, which Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen has called the Anthropocene. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z Her writing is not widely available in the U.S., but after she appears before the Nobel Prize cameras, perhaps publishers will take a renewed interest. Nobel Prize leadership change at the Swedish Academy 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z His taste just happened to align with “a bunch of older bourgeois Swedish people” who decide the Nobel each year, he added. How a Tiny British Publisher Became the Home of Nobel Laureates 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z He has also long been interested in art, particularly abstract art, and, in this trim volume, Kandel the Nobel laureate and Kandel the art lover join forces. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In his memoir, Mr. Patch said the recipients of Bedford’s services included the dissident Soviet writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Svetlana Stalina, the daughter of the late Soviet dictator. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies In a 2004 interview with The San Francisco Chronicle, Mrs. Carlisle said the acrimony was worth it to get works published that later contributed to a Nobel Prize for Solzhenitsyn. Henry Carlisle, Aided Oppressed Writers, Dies at 84 2011-07-15T03:31:57Z Either way, this week brings the culmination of the speculation around the Nobel Prize in Literature, to be awarded tomorrow. Don't Bother Betting on the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The novel’s robustly flavorsome cast of characters includes a semi-deranged land preservationist, a corrupt Nobel Prize winner, a Chilean Ayn Rand disciple and several wonderful dogs. Review | Escapist reads: New and upcoming mysteries and thrillers 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Atwood, Nobel laureate Alice Munro and Robertson Davies were among those who helped Canadian literature become known worldwide, with Atwood’s early contributions also including such novels as “Surfacing” and an influential work of criticism, “Survival.” Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z But it was the Canopus in Argus sequence, identified by Lessing as her most important work, that the Nobel committee recognised when describing their author as "the epicist of the female experience". Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z But excitable coverage of the Ladbrokes betting should be taken both with a grain of salt, as it’s usually wrong, and a sense that the real fun of the Nobel is its serendipity. Don't Bother Betting on the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z After 12 seasons, “The Big Bang Theory” bid a last goodbye in May, with Jim Parson’s Sheldon giving a touching speech after winning the Nobel Prize for physics. The Associated Press picks the top moments on TV from 2019 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z So absorbing was the experience that the award of the Nobel prize, the ceremony for which he missed because of the trip, went unmentioned in his diary. Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z The auction house, which will be taking no commission, has sold several Nobel medals, including that of Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, which fetched a record $2.3 million in 2013. Russian Journalist to Auction Nobel Medal to Benefit Ukraine 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z The novel’s robustly flavorsome cast includes a semi-deranged land preservationist, a corrupt Nobel Prize winner, a Chilean Ayn Rand disciple and several wonderful dogs. Best thriller and mystery books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Recently, a study by Nobel Prize-winning economists of startlingly high death rates for white, high-school–educated, middle-aged Americans concluded that this trend is linked to substance abuse and addiction, including opioid abuse and alcoholism. I’m dependent on narcotics; that doesn’t mean I’m an addict. 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z No peace chairman has been demoted to a mere member since the first awards were made in 1901 under the will of Sweden's Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. Change looms for Nobel Peace Prize as chairman risks coup 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “The one person I was hoping to get the Nobel Prize in Literature was Bob Dylan,” he said. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Atlas also wrote the memoir “My Life in the Middle Ages” and a biography of Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, criticized by some for being overly harsh. James Atlas, author and editor of biographies, dies at 70 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Among Indian public intellectuals, a bright category that includes the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Roy is probably now her country's most globally famous polemicist, as both a writer and speaker. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z “Live theater, the Tony Awards. Journalists receive Pulitzers and scientists Nobel Prizes. Now there is the Lincoln — for veterans.” At the Friars Club, When the Laughter Stopped 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the recipient in Oslo at about 11 a.m. Nobel panel to announce 2021 peace prize 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z She won the Pritzker, often called the Nobel Prize of architecture, and commissions began to pour in from around the world. Zaha Hadid, Pritzker-winning architect of defiance and drama, dies at 65 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z One way of taking his Nobel speech is to say that large or otherwise insulated powers tend to be engaged in solitary performances. The Age of Monologues 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Soyinka, the Nobel laureate and playwright, returns with his first novel in nearly 50 years, set in an imaginary Nigeria. 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z If I get an Oscar, then I will want the Nobel. Shhh, Don't Tell Other Directors: Working With Kids Is Easy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Yousafzai was the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2014, for working to protect children from slavery, extremism and child labor. Malala takes her passions to the small screen with Apple 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z The auction could be the last chance to acquire such a large collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author's work, said Louis Daniel Brodsky, a poet and Faulkner scholar, who lives in St. Louis. Christie's to auction rare Faulkner collection 2010-06-18T17:27:00Z In fact Ernaux, who is now 79, would be a good contender for the Nobel Prize. Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z It added that the Nobel decision certainly "must not have pleased real writers, such as potential winners Don DeLillo, Philip Roth or Haruki Murakami, who know the enormous work that goes into writing a novel." Times a-changin': Nobel jury says lyrics can be literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The unorthodox selection of Bob Dylan as the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature was bound to cause controversy. Why Bob Dylan’s Impact Is Bigger Than His Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who died at 85 on Saturday, had so many gifts as a writer — suppleness, wit, an unsparing eye for detail — that he could seemingly do whatever he wanted. V.S. Naipaul, a Writer of Many Contradictions and Obvious Greatness 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The Nobel, worth more than $500,000 today, set up the family in its new country, where a professorship at Columbia University awaited the new laureate. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z It is a layer cake so rich that the self-abnegating Albanian-born nun, whose work with India’s dying poor led to a Nobel Prize during her lifetime and canonization after, would surely never touch it. Review: Mother Teresa Sings, in Drag and With Doubts 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in October, with the Swedish Academy citing his "cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat". Vargas Llosa's Nobel address extols political power of literature 2010-12-08T13:46:00Z In the New Yorker last month, Dylan, who recently was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, explained he found Mr. Cohen’s songs so powerful. Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter of love, death and philosophical longing, dies at 82 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced Thursday in Sweden, and the guessing game is on for who the recipient might be. Who will win the Nobel Prize in Literature? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, added to the other awards in 1968 through a donation by Sweden's central bank, will be announced on Oct. Literature Nobel to be announced Oct. 13, later than usual 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The one award he did want, after being shortlisted for five successive years, was the Nobel – he won in 1973. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z The Peruvian writer, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature, says a successful society minimizes the unhappiness of its people, and encourages them to resist failure. Words are worth the fight for author Vargas Llosa 2011-03-02T21:44:18Z From his home in London, Ishiguro talked about the novel, the Nobel, parenthood, how he managed to stay afloat during the pandemic and more. Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘Some awful things have happened in the last year . . . but these are not uninteresting times’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Nobel laureate Albert Camus was reportedly inspired by André Gide. Reading group: Michel in The Immoralist: 'Are we supposed to like this guy?' 2012-07-19T08:45:21Z His goal was to win the Nobel Peace Prize. "It's hard to watch": Armie Hammer's aunt on her family's "sick and twisted behavior" in new series 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Those who scoffed when Mr. Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 may find they have to think again. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z And last month, a group of Republican House members sent a letter to Stockholm nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Sucking up has always been part of Washington culture. In the Trump era, it’s a sport. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Then again, for the last couple of years, Bob Dylan has been on the betting list for the Nobel Prize in literature. Will Don DeLillo win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The playwright, Deborah Margolin, is also trying to move forward, yet remains deeply shaken by her clash with Mr. Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor. Deborah Margolin?s Madoff Play, Now Without Wiesel 2010-07-20T00:39:00Z “Is it possible that the Nobel committee might finally reverse the ignoble treatment of what we call ‘nonfiction writing’ and admit that it is literature?” Svetlana Alexievich Is Rare Nonfiction Winner of Nobel 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Alexievich will receive her award at the Nobel ceremony on Dec. 10; several of her books, including Voices From Chernobyl, are available online. 5 Things to Know About Nobel Winner Svetlana Alexievich 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In his Nobel acceptance speech, Mr. Modiano, 69, said the prize led him to reflect on the purpose of his writing in a new way. Nobel Gives French Novelist U.S. Boost 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Royal Swedish Academy, which awarded Solzhenitsyn the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, expressed deep concern at his detention. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is arrested: From the archive, 13 Feb 1974 2013-02-13T07:00:00Z O'Neill, who received the Nobel prize in 1936, also won four Pulitzer prizes and is considered by some to be the father of modern American drama. Yale library acquires 'lost' Eugene O'Neill script 2011-10-19T22:16:03Z Theroux, a younger friend of the Nobel laureate, soured on the relationship either after a snub on the street or when Naipaul sold books at auction that Theroux had autographed to him. What do a Gutenberg Bible, Charles Bukowski and Paul Theroux have in common? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. McCarthy had in recent years been discussed as a potential winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature. Scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on lithium-ion battery 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z When the Swedish Academy awarded Tokarczuk the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019, they called “The Books of Jacob” her “magnum opus.” Women Dominate Shortlist for International Booker Prize 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z A collection of essays, speeches and other writings by the late Nobel Prize winner. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Three of the four won the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Last week she won an award thought of as the "British Nobel" – the £40,000 David Cohen prize for lifetime achievement. Hilary Mantel faces six newcomers in contest for women's fiction prize 2013-03-13T00:01:03Z As we spoke, an e-mail flashed on his computer screen; it was from a Danish journalist, and the words “Ko Un” and “Nobel Prize” were in the subject line. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z “Martin Gilbert tells the story from beginning to end,” Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel wrote in a Chicago Tribune review. Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z He is devoted to Suu and to her cause, successfully promoting her candidacy for a Nobel Peace Prize and trying, less fruitfully, to outwit the Myanmar authorities who are keeping them apart. Movie Review: ?The Lady? by Luc Besson, Set in Myanmar, Stars Michelle Yeoh 2012-04-10T22:15:52Z The author and professional fly in the ointment of religion had faint praise for Islam in August, when he dryly noted the religion’s poor showing in the Nobels. 2013: The worst tweets of the year 2013-12-27T15:30:00Z There are names that consistently appear, year after year, in Nobel speculation — Murakami, Adonis, Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Bob Dylan. Don't Bother Betting on the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature in 1969 for "writing, which – in new forms for the novel and drama – in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z When Nobel judges gave the peace prize to another writer – jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo – two years ago, Mo said he did not know much about the case and did not want to discuss it. Mo Yan's Nobel prize for literature sparks celebration in China 2012-10-11T18:33:56Z You know, I could dream of getting the Nobel Prize in Literature — believe me, I’ve dreamed of everything. T Magazine: Patti Smith, Requiem Lass 2011-10-14T15:15:24Z For the first time in decades, this year’s Nobel prizes included no literature award after deep disagreement and defections at the awarding body, the Swedish Academy, left it unable to select a winner. Maryse Conde wins alternative literature prize in absence of Nobel 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Claude Shannon, another Nobel winner for his work on information theory, spent time working on a chess-playing machine. 'The Idea Factory': Bell Labs, the fountainhead of innovation 2012-03-22T20:07:04Z Last month, a judge settled it instead, clearing the way for the brothers to sell the Nobel Prize and Bible. Why no major Martin Luther King Jr. artifacts will be at the new African American museum 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Fox will be given an honorary degree of medicine by the institute, which awards the annual Nobel Prize in this discipline. Fox to receive Parkinson's honour 2010-03-07T12:25:00Z Thanks in part to the Nobel Prize, the world knows about the courage of Malala Yousafzai, who defied the Taliban and insisted that girls in her native Pakistan be given an education. Three books to inspire young readers to bravery 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But what separates Ngugi from his Nobel predecessor is his brave and polemical decision to write in his first language, Gikuyu. Why Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have won the Nobel prize for literature 2010-10-08T09:48:00Z A Nobel Prize winner collects the stories of typically unheard witnesses in this sweeping piece of documentary literature. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Against all odds, Bill Haney’s documentary about Jim Allison — who last year received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work using immunology to treat cancer — might be the most cheering film of the year. Best movies of 2019: A compelling mix of new and established voices 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z One way to think of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk’s magnum opus, “The Books of Jacob,” is as the fictional gospels of this apparently mesmerizing and highly problematic cult leader. Savior? Monster? A Messianic Leader Rallies His Followers. 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z She was awarded her second Nobel in chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of two elements, radium and polonium. ArtsBeat: Meryl Streep to Participate in Alan Alda's Marie Curie Play 2011-05-09T19:09:48Z As a popular Nobel laureate he may find, in the near future, that it's more difficult to be incognito. Mario Vargas Llosa: a master of humour and humanity 2010-10-07T17:42:00Z This is Dylan’s first book of new writing since “Chronicles: Volume One” appeared in 2004 and since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. Bob Dylan Breaks Down 66 Classic Tunes in His New Book 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z When Joseph Brodsky was asked whether he was American or Russian after receiving the Nobel prize for literature in 1987, he answered: "I am Jewish – a Russian poet and an English essayist." Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z Morrison, the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, died Monday night at 88. Oprah Winfrey praises her late friend and idol Toni Morrison 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “It’s regrettable that many people don’t read books but still wish for the Nobel Prize.” Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z It sometimes seems that the secondary function of the Nobel committee is to deprive Philip Roth of a prize. Patrick Modiano's Nobel in Literature: The Swedes Got It Right 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z A Nobel Prize committee member about Bob Dylan’s refusal to acknowledge receiving the literature award: “One can say that it is impolite and arrogant.” Style Invitational: Don’t be afraid of the dark — a song parody contest 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Three U.S.-based scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for detecting faint ripples flying through the universe — the gravitational waves predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein. U. S.-based scientists earn Nobel Prize for work on gravitational waves 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Berger also said Gail Steinbeck never intentionally interfered in deals she and her husband would have benefited from and that would have served their interest promoting the Nobel Prize winner’s legacy. Judges to hear appeal in lawsuit over John Steinbeck works 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z We watch him take money from Elie Wiesel, knowing he will even defraud the beloved Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor. Madoff’s Multibillion-Dollar Mirage Arrives on TV 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, and the economics award is set for Oct. Literature Nobel Prize to Be Announced Thursday 2013-10-07T14:26:03Z McPherson uses the Nobel Prize winner’s songbook to soulfully embroider a multi-character Depression-era story, set in a boardinghouse in Duluth, the Minnesota city of Dylan’s birth. Best of theater 2018: Sensations that crossed borders 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z And a number of university professors, Nobel Prize winners among them. Ebert links to his Urbana home remained tight 2013-04-19T19:01:09Z The South African Nobel laureate was born at a time when the telegraph was the quickest form of sending messages from one country to the next. Nadine Gordimer is remembered -- and lives on in social media 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z He thought that people who were educated and who made a difference in this world were the ones who should be getting paid millions of dollars: the Nobel prizewinners, the scientists, the teachers, the doctors. Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize in literature is generally announced in the second week of October. Kirkus announces its finalist lineup, and book prize season is looking good 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s biographical documentary was released less than two months before the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist’s death, and it serves as a fitting tribute to her life and legacy. ‘99 Homes,’ ‘Paddleton’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Müller, whose citation from the Nobel committee heralded her for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose", said that Mo "celebrates censorship". Mo Yan's Nobel nod a 'catastrophe', says fellow laureate Herta Müller 2012-11-26T13:36:08Z The new Nobel laureate has been accused of being both subtly subversive and too close to the party line Chinese author Mo Yan at a book fair in Saint Malo, France, in 2006. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z Having found that Faber and Faber had no intention of publishing William Golding's Nobel prize lecture, I was given permission to do so myself. William Blake brought me face to face with my literary fundamentalism 2012-11-06T12:09:21Z When the bookmakers and the book-writers are on the same page, it’s a safe bet that the Nobel Prize in Literature is about to be announced. Nonfiction Deserves a Nobel 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureate's next project will be to devote himself to printmaking. G?nter Grass writes final autobiography 2010-08-24T13:25:00Z After he received the Nobel, there was resentment among some of his countrymen that Hungary’s first Nobel laureate for literature was Jewish. Imre Kertesz, Hungarian author who won Nobel Prize, dies at 86 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Green contacted the Nobel laureate's agent, noted Knopf's history of publishing Latin American authors and acquired the English edition of his new book and many of his older ones. Ashbel Green, editor of Cronkite, dies at age 84 2012-09-19T16:52:12Z It's the story of Michael Beard, a rotund Nobel Prize-winning scientist with five ex-wives, an opportunistic approach to his work and a vague feeling that, perhaps, he isn't a very good fellow. 'Solar': Ian McEwan's novel of a scientist seeking the light 2010-03-31T21:18:00Z Pramoedya earned several accolades, and was frequently discussed as Indonesia's and Southeast Asia's best candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z He acknowledged at the time it was a long-term goal, but his high-flown oratory helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama vows nuke cuts, warns N. Korea, Iran 2012-03-26T03:10:00Z The Nobel citation praised Mo as a writer “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” The prize is worth 8 million Swedish kronor, or about $1.4 million. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z Steinbeck himself, when asked if he deserved the Nobel, replied: "Frankly, no." Swedish Academy reopens controversy surrounding Steinbeck's Nobel prize 2013-01-03T15:43:46Z The Nobel for literature is most helpful when it brings someone deserving to the global audience’s attention. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z I do feel like if I wash the dishes before I put them in the dishwasher, if they make it into the dishwasher, sometimes I'm like, "Yo, where's my Nobel Peace Prize?" Gabrielle Union on why women can stop chasing after balance: It's "fictitious BS that doesn't exist" 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z A Nobel prize is no guarantee of common sense. Michael Hanlon on science writing: 'You need a bullshit detector' 2013-04-10T06:00:01Z This may quite possibly be the best Nobel Prize choice ever for literature, right up there with the recognition of William Faulkner. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z It's been more than 20 years since an American was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. 7 reasons why the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is a Belarusian you don't know 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z THE Swedish Academy hailed Patrick Modiano as “a Marcel Proust of our time” when it awarded him the Nobel prize in literature last month. French letters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Woods translated some of the best-known novels written by Mr. Mann, a Nobel Prize winner: “Doctor Faustus,” “Buddenbrooks,” “Joseph and His Brothers” and “The Magic Mountain.” John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z This year, the Nobel Prizes will be awarded from Oct. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize in Literature, which is awarded for a body of work, cited Buck’s “rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China” and her “biographical masterpieces.” A Pearl Buck Novel, New After 4 Decades 2013-05-21T21:00:02Z The academy has since taken measures that “create good opportunities for restoring trust,” the Nobel Foundation said in a statement. Two Nobel Prizes in Literature to Be Awarded This Year After Scandal 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z If you're in a position to do so, you can watch the live stream of the announcement on the Nobel website, here. Nobel prize in literature 2012: live blog 2012-10-11T10:49:18Z The Henry Bech novels chronicled a literary star who wins every prize in the book, except the Nobel — just like Updike. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z The new prize is distinct from the Hans Christian Andersen medal, sometimes dubbed the "Nobel Prize for children's literature", which was awarded to David Almond earlier this year. JK Rowling wins Hans Christian Andersen literature award 2010-10-20T11:58:00Z At Berkeley in the 1930s he built up a distinctively American school of physicists and made contributions to astrophysics that, Monk argues, would have won him the Nobel prize had he lived longer. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z The single man spotlighted as a guest on the radio program is Annan, the former secretary-general of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Angelou celebrates black history with Oprah, Keys 2013-02-02T12:46:03Z Satyarthi and Yousafzai were picked for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Pakistani teen, Indian children's right activist win Nobel Peace Prize 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Scientists not connected with the project suggested the achievement could be worthy of a Nobel Prize. Scientists reveal the first image of a supermassive black hole 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z He retired in 1948, received the Nobel peace prize and was made a lord. John Boyd Orr by Alasdair Gray 2011-08-12T21:55:16Z “That is one of those phrases you never thought you would hear, like Vanilla Ice is picking up his Nobel Prize in physics,” said Oliver. John Oliver Can't Believe Donald Trump Is President 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The prize, established in 1979 and viewed as the Nobel of architecture awards, suggests otherwise. Pritzker Architecture Prize Goes to Shigeru Ban 2014-03-24T20:46:25Z Once there, don’t miss Vilakazi Street, the only street in the world where you can see the homes of two Nobel Peace Prize winners: Bishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela. South Africa Scores! 2010-06-05T02:17:00Z Beard, we learn, won his Nobel for work he did a long time ago, and since then he’s coasted on his reputation, giving lectures and speeches and attending conferences and symposiums. Books of The Times: Ian McEwan?s ?Solar? Features a Boorish Physicist 2010-03-29T21:45:00Z "I always knew you would win the Nobel prize for literature," gasped Felipe-Martin. Digested read: In the Name of Love by Katie Price 2012-06-24T18:30:01Z In nonfiction, a wide array of subjects: threats to democracy, ancient crafts, strategy during the Vietnam War, Ezra Pound in confinement and the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s literary criticism. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Patrick Modiano, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, is a paradox. Patrick Modiano, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, is a paradox In awarding her the Nobel, the Swedish Academy cited her “novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import,” through which she “gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z But as many schools point out, honorary degrees are not Nobel Prizes. To Revoke or Not: Colleges That Gave Cosby Honors Face a Tough Question 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z And to the mansion where a teenager named Susan Sontag visited one of her literary heroes, the German exile and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Among the highlights that did not sell was Steinbeck's acceptance speech for his 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. Lackluster bidding for Steinbeck's NYC archive 2010-06-23T21:32:00Z Mario Vargas Llosa meets the press in New York after his Nobel prize for literature victory., Mario Vargas Llosa: an unclassifiable Nobel winner 2010-10-08T10:50:00Z Looking up at the surprised host, he added, “Twenty-three per cent of Nobel Prize winners are Jewish people. Korean women want to know the secret. They found the secret in this book.” How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z And thus, South Park manages to find a way to apologise repeatedly while still mocking Gore as a narcissist, who wears a Nobel medal and a cape. South Park's Al Gore apology contains an inconvenient truth: it's funny 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Without giving too much of the plot away, Mr. Alda said his play focuses on the period between her first Nobel Prize and her second nine years later. ArtsBeat: Meryl Streep to Participate in Alan Alda's Marie Curie Play 2011-05-09T19:09:48Z Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/3b3b6 The Nobel prize in literature 2012: an open book? Nobel prize in literature 2012: live blog 2012-10-11T10:49:18Z She was the first and remains the only African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize. Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The museum, which will have a significant educational component, will also help ensure that the country does not let slavery “happen again,” added Lee, who has been nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. National Juneteenth Museum Takes Shape in Fort Worth, Texas 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z The capital that forms the base for the awards was donated in the will of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and is managed by the foundation, which was set up in 1900. Nobel laureates in line for even bigger pay-day 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Titled “The Embrace,” the sculpture symbolizes the hug the couple shared after Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. In Boston, ‘The Embrace’ Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z In 1949, he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature, and two of his subsequent novels, A Fable and The Reivers, which was published posthumously in 1962, both won the Pulitzer. Sarah Churchwell: rereading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 2012-07-20T21:55:05Z She said she planned to remain in Minsk and hoped the Nobel would give her some protection and freedom to speak her mind. Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Bob Dylan might not make it to Nobel Prize ceremonies, but he did turn up for an acoustic performance at the Lincoln Memorial. Inauguration performances weren’t always so contentious: Highlights from the last 75 years 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z But in conversation he refused to discuss the Nobel. A Revolutionary of Arabic Verse 2010-10-17T22:03:00Z I think the Nobel committee needs to learn Korean first. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Havel was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, and collected dozens of other accolades worldwide for his efforts as a global ambassador of conscience, defended the downtrodden from Darfur to Myanmar. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z We aren’t, at the end of the day, real people who could be listed in the history books on the Nobel. ‘Big Bang Theory’ stars reflect on show’s end, next steps 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Former winners of real Nobels handed out the spoof awards at a ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday. Banana peel study, ugly art research win Ig Nobel spoof awards 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize in literature can be a boon for publishers throughout the world. Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z I don’t know who’s going to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Will Don DeLillo win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Its 18 members — appointed for life — are charged with choosing the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. Perspective | The Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature. It’s still broken. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z There are many who believe this quietly charismatic man should be in line for the Nobel peace prize. José Antonio Abreu on Venezuela's El Sistema miracle 2012-06-14T19:00:02Z Authors have always been drawn to this city, which is the home of Sweden’s major publishers, the Nobel Prize and the Royal Dramatic Theater. Read Your Way Through Stockholm 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Last week, when Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature—a choice that vexed some purists—Gizzi was joyful. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Here’s a guide to the finalists for the honors — and the chatter about who might win the Nobel. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize, for all its momentous heft will never outweigh Dylan’s true accomplishment. Why Bob Dylan’s Impact Is Bigger Than His Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z It was, some saw, a response to the controversy over his win for the Nobel Prize in Literature, a first for a songwriter. Bob Dylan, music’s finest troll, may have plagiarized his Nobel speech 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z “Stop thinking about saving your face,” she said, in her 1993 Nobel Prize speech. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The Swedish Academy said in its Nobel citation that it "belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th-century view of the male-female relationship". Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing dies aged 94 2013-11-17T20:50:17Z In a news conference on Thursday, Anders Olsson, the chairman of the Nobel literature committee, praised “Fosse’s sensitive language, which probes the limits of words.” Jon Fosse, Norwegian Author, Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The file accumulated intelligence for the next 24 years, even as García Márquez became an intimate of world leaders and was awarded the Nobel Prize for his gritty and magical novels about Latin America. Love in the time of surveillance: FBI agents tracked Gabriel García Márquez 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, in a New Yorker essay called “Mourning for Whiteness” that was written after Mr. Trump’s election, explored long-running assumptions that even Americans believe that white is better. What Is the Color of Beauty? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z The Nobel Foundation does not accept any rejections of the prize - Dylan's name will be listed as the winner in 2016 whatever he says. The $900,000 question behind Bob Dylan's Nobel prize 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Another big shift will be the retirement at the end of the year of Geir Lundestad, the director of the Nobel Institute since 1990 and a professor specializing in American history. Change looms for Nobel Peace Prize as chairman risks coup 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Sutton said nearly all the cancellations were due to illness or travel problems; in one case, the headlining author and Nobel laureate José Saramago died just after the programme was published. Edinburgh international book festival sees dip in ticket sales 2010-08-31T13:04:00Z One of Japan’s most successful literary exports, Murakami’s Nobel prospects are the subject of intense annual scrutiny in his home country. Japan's Murakami withdraws from consideration for alternative Nobel... 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z If he doesn't finally get the Nobel for literature, we should boycott it! No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Let’s set aside the ridiculous presumption that each year the Nobel Prize in literature goes to “the” greatest writer in the world. Perspective | The Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature. It’s still broken. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z On the phone screen, everywhere is just “somewhere,” Tokarczuk regretted in her 2019 Nobel lecture: “‘Somewhere’ some people are drowning as they try to cross the sea. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The novel is the first in three years for Murakami, who is often mentioned as a Nobel Prize contender. In rare appearance, Murakami talks about new book 2013-05-06T18:31:05Z I have some very exciting stories of having met Princess Diana or Michael Jackson or Barack Obama when he was a senator, hundreds of Nobel laureates. Producer Brian Grazer stays curious and writes about how he does it 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z We turn, as ever, to the superlative Complete Review, where MA Orthofer's reading of the Nobel betting patterns is legendary. Nobel prize in literature 2012: live blog 2012-10-11T10:49:18Z The organization sprang up after the Swedish Academy said in May that it would postpone the Nobel in literature for a year. With No Nobel Prize in Literature This Year, Another Award Steps In 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureate André Gide once praised her “natural and strange grace.” Michèle Morgan, a French Film Legend, Dies at 96 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The Nobel Prizes, created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, were first handed out in 1901, five years after his death. Nobel jury picks literature prize winner 2010-10-01T13:01:00Z The year was 1975, and Mr. Dylan, not yet a Nobel Prize winner but long since a songwriting legend, was in the middle of his third stint living in the Village. Exploring Bob Dylan’s New York 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Three Nobel Prizes have yet to be announced. Scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on lithium-ion battery 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z In fact, it is a measure of his sheer staying power that he receives these Nobel laurels a full 21 years after he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z The Swedish Academy, who decides who the Nobel laureate in literature will be each year, stopped trying to contact the 75-year-old Dylan after several attempts to reach him went unanswered. Bob Dyland Removes Nobel Prize Acknowledgment From Website 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z He has done some brilliant work and deserved the Nobel Prize, but his empirical stuff is not that good frankly. What can we learn from the Great Depression? 2012-08-27T11:45:00Z Winning a Nobel Prize typically boosts an author’s sales and international audience and can lead to a frenzied competition to secure translation rights. Dispute Erupts Over Translation Rights to New Nobel Laureate 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z But there is no statue or memorial for the rock star hailed as "the voice of a generation," who became the first singer-songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In Bob Dylan's hometown, an awkward embrace for its Nobel son 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Nobel prizewinning travel writers definitely have the edge. Audiobooks 2011-03-05T00:07:11Z So perhaps a Nobel in physics or some such as well? ‘Nathan for You,’ on Comedy Central, Mixes Absurdity and Economics 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Congress rejected a proposal to rename the country's main airport after Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, famous worldwide for his poetry and a hero of the Chilean left for his political leanings. Chile nixes renaming int'l airport for poet Neruda 2010-04-09T20:30:00Z One of Poland's most acclaimed writers, her humane and often ironic poems won a wider audience in 1996 when she won the Nobel prize for literature. Last book of late Nobel poet hits stores in Poland 2012-04-20T11:46:11Z Unlike her male postcolonial contemporaries and fellow Nobel laureates V. S. Naipaul or J. M. Coetzee, Lessing — like Anna — is unafraid to dirty her hands in the quest for truth. Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z The other authors on that list – Borges, Faulkner, Nabokov and Roth among them – later piled on Nobel Prizes and Pulitzers, but Keilson sank into obscurity once more. Hans Keilson: "Genius? I'm not even a proper writer!" 2010-11-21T00:05:00Z "He is the perfect ambassador for this event, which celebrates peace through music and illuminates the notable contributions of the Nobel laureate." Denzel Washington to host Nobel Peace concert 2010-09-30T12:34:00Z Dylanphiles, breathe easy: our man Bob is a Nobel Laureate at last. The Rambling Glory of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Speech 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Ripert found a copy of the Dalai Lama’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and he was off. Eric Ripert: the Buddhist Michelin star chef who changed my life 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1993, Ms. Morrison was the author of 11 novels as well as children’s books and essay collections. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The weaving of rural roots and modern realism helped him to become the most acclaimed Irish poet since William Butler Yeats, who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1923. Ireland mourns 'keeper of language' poet Seamus Heaney 2013-08-30T17:44:08Z If Mr. McCarthy does win the Nobel, I hope the citation mentions his earlier, funnier novels, such as “Suttree.” The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The Burmese military authorities released the Nobel Peace Prize winner from house arrest on 13 November last year. Brighton Festival honours Suu Kyi 2011-02-10T11:11:41Z "The Tibetan issue is very complicated," said Tibet’s spiritual leader, appearing on a panel with former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev and other Nobel Peace laureates. Nobel laureates appeal to world's youth 2012-04-25T21:30:00Z The foreword is by Zadie Smith, adapted from a tribute she wrote soon after the Nobel laureate died in August at age 88. Book of Toni Morrison quotations is coming out in December 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z More than 3,000 books from the personal collection of Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing are headed to the leading public library in Harare, Zimbabwe. More than 3,000 of Doris Lessing's books heading to Zimbabwe 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Like Frayn’s madcap “Noises Off,” “The Copenhagen Papers” — written by Frayn and David Burke, who played the Nobel laureate Niels Bohr in the original London cast of “Copenhagen” — is a backstage farce. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, Güler’s frequent collaborator, included the photographer’s images in his memoir, “Istanbul: Memories and the City,” to conjure a picture of a Turkish childhood that words alone could not convey. What Ara Güler, “The Eye of Istanbul,” Saw in His Homeland 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z “But why not the actual Nobel Prize in Literature?” Maryse Condé, at Home in the World 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The Nobel — imperfect as any human endeavor — shone a light. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Would I have ever read Elias Canetti if it weren’t for the Nobel? The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In his latest novel, “Solar,” Mr. McEwan’s protagonist — a fat, middle-aged Nobel Prize-winning physicist named Michael Beard — joins this gallery of distasteful antiheroes. Books of The Times: Ian McEwan?s ?Solar? Features a Boorish Physicist 2010-03-29T21:45:00Z The Nobel Prizes were established in the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, and have been handed out since 1901. Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T12:40:17Z Forty-five years and one Nobel Prize later, the reception has been entirely redecorated. Toni Morrison’s familiar, flawed ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The famed Albanian writer, and perpetual Nobel Prize contender, produces a novel that grapples with the supernatural in a story set against a backdrop of interrogation, exile and thwarted lives. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The Nobel Prize committee has become more open about its process in recent years. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Ebadi, who received the prize in 2003, was the first Muslim woman and remains the only Iranian to be awarded a Nobel. Nobel winner Shirin Ebadi to publish memoir with Random House 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Here’s a bonus: The Nobel in Literature often does extraordinary things for small publishers. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Just as Tom Lehrer believed that Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize rendered satire obsolete, so this blood-drinking detail renders futile any kind of political or psychological analysis. The Look of Silence: second Act of Killing as horrifically gripping as first - Venice film festival review 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “Alfred Nobel wanted to reward those who have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.” A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Poetry, even by Nobel Prize winners, rarely sells well, he added, saying that the Spanish translations of Glück’s books had sold 150 to 200 copies each. Dispute Erupts Over Translation Rights to New Nobel Laureate 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z When he won the Nobel Prize the committee said his work “uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms.” British Library Acquires Letters of Harold Pinter 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z He’d laughed much since the victory in Montgomery, the March on Washington, the cascade of accolades and roses bestowed by the Nobel Prize. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Given his age, time is running out on his Nobel chances—and there are no obvious South Korean candidates for the prize after him. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z I think there is less talk among scholars about the Nobel Prize than the manuscripts and the hope of getting access to and being published in some form. Faulkner heirlooms going to auction in New York 2013-04-10T13:36:08Z In a year when the Swedish Academy won’t name a Nobel laureate in literature, a pop-up nonprofit called the New Academy is aiming to fill the gap. With No Nobel Prize in Literature This Year, Another Award Steps In 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z In its announcement, the Nobel Prize committee compared the singer-songwriter to the ancient Greek poets, Homer and Sappho, even though he probably more closely identified with the 1960s bluegrass poets, Homer and Jethro. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z In the previous six years, the academy had rewarded five Europeans and one Turk with the literature Nobel, sparking criticism that it was too euro-centric. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T12:44:00Z Kandel is a professor at Columbia University, and received the Nobel Prize for his work on the neural structure of memory. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, the novel imagines the lives of renowned scientists like the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Finalists Announced for This Year’s National Book Awards 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z He is also very funny, and Nobel winners are rarely witty, to Parul’s point. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Famously, Thomas Mann, the Nobel prize-winning German author of The Magic Mountain, had a summerhouse here where he’d holiday with his family in the early 1930s. 20 of the best Baltic beach holidays 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Another writer who used the Holocaust as a metaphor for moralizing about the human condition is Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, who was jailed for his attempts to mediate between Biafra and Nigeria. Nigerian writers compare genocide of Igbos to the Holocaust 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Princeton University history professor Sean Wilentz, author of “Bob Dylan in America” and the unofficial historian of the musician’s website, said he wasn’t surprised by the Nobel. Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In a telephone interview, he said that Kipling, an English journalist, author and poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 and wrote “The Jungle Book,” supported “colonialism and had racist attitudes.” British Students Paint Over Kipling Mural, Protesting ‘Racist Attitudes’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “My long-suffering wife Elaine,” he called her, in closing his Oscar acceptance speech, “who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for coming to my rescue every day of my life.” Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Sculptor Hank Willis Thomas found inspiration in a photograph of the civil rights pioneers embracing after King learned he had won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Picture this: A communist Chilean poet who served as a senator and diplomat and later went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Ned’s odyssey reunites him with Simon, still wearing his garbage collector’s uniform as a Nobel laureate and now aspiring comedian. Review: In Hal Hartley’s ‘Ned Rifle,’ Closure for a Son and a Series 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z I had a hunch it might have something to do with the Nobel. ‘A Really Cool Gig’: Playing Piano for Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z In many countries, perhaps, a Nobel prize for literature is seen as an award to a creative individual, without any broader, collective symbolism. Mo Yan's Nobel prize in literature should help China overcome its Nobel complex 2012-10-11T15:40:18Z The Higgs boson was identified at Cern in July and confirmed there last month, making him an odds-on favourite for a Nobel. Richard Dawkins named world's top thinker in poll 2013-04-25T10:55:01Z The discovery would be a strong contender for the Nobel Prize. Physicist claim to have found long-sought Higgs Boson 2013-03-14T12:52:00Z Gordimer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, died at her Johannesburg home on Sunday evening in the presence of her children, Hugo and Oriane, a statement from the family said. South African anti-apartheid author, Nobel winner Gordimer dies 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Certainly, the body of his work is considered very notable by foreign judges; he was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, picking up his in 1930. The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32 2012-07-23T15:19:53Z It was that Cairo, with its layers of history and character, that shaped the literature of Egypt, inspiring the likes of our Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Read Your Way Through Cairo 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Critics are questioning why the Nobel judges couldn't find a single woman across the planet worthy of being honored in any of the six prize categories. Times ain't a-changin? All-male Nobel lineup draws criticism 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Bob Dylan has come under fire from critics who believe he borrowed material for song lyrics, passages of his memoir and his Nobel lecture. Jill Bialosky, Poet and Editor, Faces Plagiarism Accusations 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Dylan, 76, the only musician to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, cautioned “don’t look back,” the title of D.A. A billionaire’s quirky quest to create a mecca for Bob Dylan fans. In Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The new novel by Ishiguro, a Nobel Prize winner, concerns a robot who begins caring for a sickly girl. The top audiobooks of the last year, according to our readers 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z He never won the White House, but he went on to find redemption with the Nobel for the work he cares most about.” The End of the Line 2012-08-25T11:00:00Z America’s scientists come away from Stockholm nearly every year with a well-wrought wreath of Nobel prizes, and no week goes by without the unveiling of a new medical device or weapons system. My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z His father was, by then, England’s first Nobel laureate in literature and its foremost poet of empire. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Poetry was a parallel occupation — an outlet for what his Nobel citation described as his “condensed, translucent images” that give “us fresh access to reality.” Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize banquet is held every year at Stockholm City Hall, a beautiful building by the water in the middle of the city. Read Your Way Through Stockholm 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Simin Behbahani, Outspoken Iranian Poet, Dies at 87 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Now that she is gone and we are facing a moral dilemma greater than any that I have seen in my lifetime, her Nobel acceptance speech is as haunting and urgent as ever. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z In his Nobel lecture, the notoriously media-shy Dylan said: "Our songs are alive in the land of the living. But songs are unlike literature. They’re meant to be sung, not read." Dylan's Nobel speech: songs only need to move you, not make sense 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z A year ago, the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, shocking folks all over the world — most notably, Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z In a year that is relatively light on big star names in fiction, I am looking forward to new novels from Jonathan Franzen in September and from the Nobel prize-winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Books in 2015: A look-ahead 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z And the downsides to winning a Nobel prize? Dan Shechtman: 'Linus Pauling said I was talking nonsense' 2013-01-06T00:07:04Z Every October, as the approach of winter turns our thoughts to the frozen north, the phones vibrate with calls from Swedish newspapers, anxious to get the foreign perspective on likely Nobel laureates. Here's our Booker dozen ? what's yours? 2011-07-25T13:31:23Z In this context, the situation in Bahrain is not unlike that in Myanmar/Burma a few years back, and the introduction of a Nobel into the Bahraini environment might prove as salutary. A worthy, necessary Nobel honoring the Arab Spring — and much more 2013-01-11T01:00:00Z Dylan was named the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, Oct. Dylan book sales soar after Nobel announcement 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z It is the most eloquent and intellectually cogent response to those who belittle and malign Islamic culture; it shows that the Nobel prize committee is capable instead of seeing its depth and richness. Why Adonis should win the Nobel 2010-10-06T14:00:00Z Once again, the Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and left many Americans scratching their heads. Why You Haven't Heard of Patrick Modiano, Winner of the Nobel in Literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z So, what do you say to your daughter right before she becomes the youngest Nobel laureate ever? Malala's Dad: How I Raised a Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z But the Nobel laureate did not confine herself to one kind of writing. Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Kertesz, the first Hungarian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, was 14 when he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in 1944. Imre Kertesz, Hungarian author who won Nobel Prize, dies at 86 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He was also an exceptional translator of the work of Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel laureate, who became a close friend. Alan Myers obituary 2010-08-22T17:26:00Z Before Thursday, only 15 women had won the Nobel Prize in literature since it was first awarded in 1901. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z "Oxford didn't start coming around to him until after he won the Nobel Prize" in 1949, Watson said. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z How Louise Glück, the new Nobel laureate, was no admirer of Rich’s teaching practices at Columbia University when Glück was a student there. ‘The Power of Adrienne Rich’ Captures a Forceful and Complicated Poet 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z “I’m afraid, if Ko Un wins the Nobel, that the Korean government, the L.T.I., will just declare victory and shut down,” Charles Montgomery said. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The silhouetted figure's travels were interspersed with appearances by assorted impossibly well-informed and articulate experts on poverty such as Nobel laureate and professor of economics at Columbia University Joseph Stiglitz. TV review: Poor Us – An Animated History of Poverty; Goodnight Britain 2012-11-28T23:31:01Z And that’s exactly what was rewarded at the nominations for the Ig Nobel Prize on Thursday. “Beer goggles,” and opera-loving mice win the Ig Nobel Prizes 2013-09-14T19:00:00Z They drew crowds of well-wishers on their first three days in Cape Town, where they visited non-governmental organizations working with vulnerable communities and the youth and met Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu. Prince Harry to visit Angola de-mining project, in Diana's footsteps 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The following is a complete list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, with links to New York Times coverage. Past Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Derek Walcott, whose poetry about the landscapes, cultures, and history of the Caribbean earned him the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, died this morning, at the age of eighty-seven, in his home on St. Lucia. Derek Walcott in The New Yorker 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z George Bernard Shaw was both prolific and widely produced, and he even won a Nobel prize in 1925. Tristan And Yseult, Fences, Widowers' Houses: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-06-15T04:59:01Z Her earliest work, done in collaboration with Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, showed the importance of individual moments in extended hedonic experiences. The myths of happiness 2013-03-31T21:00:00Z “When I finished that novel I was full of hopes, that I’d get the Nobel Prize, or else I would die unknown.” Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Gurnah, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, often deals with themes of exile and displacement in his writing. 13 New Books Coming in August 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z In his first comments on the award, made in an interview with The Telegraph, the British newspaper, Mr. Dylan was asked whether he would attend the Nobel ceremony in Sweden in December. Bob Dylan Speaks, at Last, on His Nobel 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z China's first writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature is in Stockholm, where he is set to receive the prestigious prize next week. Nobel literature winner says censorship necessary 2012-12-06T13:11:12Z Across the street from St. Mary’s, you’ll find a courtly white house that once belonged to the grandparents of the novelist Thomas Mann, one of three local Nobel Prize winners. Overnighter: L?beck?s Spires, a Quick Hop From Hamburg 2011-08-05T15:28:09Z Based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel, the film stars Glenn Close as a woman who becomes disillusioned with her Nobel Prize-winning husband. The best book adaptations to hit screens in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z In 2002 he founded the annual Shaw Prizes, Asia's version of the Nobel Prizes. Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw dies 2014-01-07T14:02:11Z The Nobel committee rarely chooses nonfiction writers for the literature prize. Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Frequently named as Australia's best contender for the Nobel, Carey said he was inspired to write his new novel by Tocqueville's study of America's evolving democratic society in the 19th century, Democracy in America. Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America could be my best book 2010-08-17T11:38:00Z Unlike Barack Obama, who continued and expanded our war in Afghanistan, Carter was a peace president who earned his Nobel Peace Prize, and keeps on earning it with worldwide efforts against war, poverty and disease. The Pious Presidency of Jimmy Carter 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The Cervantes is comparable to a Nobel Prize for Spanish literature. Ana Maria Matute receives Spanish literary prize 2011-04-27T11:39:09Z Gore, a Nobel prize-winning environment campaigner and Bill Clinton’s vice-president, met with Donald Trump in New York last Monday and declared afterward that it was a “productive session” and they expected to talk further. Jane Fonda targets Trump over climate and inequality: 'A boy in the bully pulpit' 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z “I want to win a Nobel Prize,” Bill declares. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: I Will Fix You 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z And a slender new poetry collection by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück, which in its way also has fate on its mind: “Who can speak of the future?” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo because Nobel wanted it that way, for reasons he kept to himself. Nobel Prizes awarded in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s just a board game, after all, not evidence for a Nobel Prize. Perspective | In a world of Monopoly and Risk, the maker of Catan settled for more 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, there were three basic reactions among word people. ‘Shake It Up’ Aims to Put Rock Writing in the Pantheon 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Six Nobel Prizes are awarded every year, each recognizing an individual’s or organization’s groundbreaking contribution to a specific field. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Two years later he received the Nobel Prize and the British Order of Merit. How T.S. Eliot Went From Neurotic Banker to Neurotic Worldwide Literary Hero 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z She won the 1991 Nobel peace prize for her campaign for democracy. Michelle Yeoh and Luc Besson linked with Aung San Suu Kyi biopic 2010-12-08T12:48:00Z Penn is to receive the 2012 Peace Summit Award at the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. Sean Penn's Haiti work earns humanitarian prize 2012-03-19T19:46:12Z Plenty of readers welcomed the Nobel news as a happy respite from the relentless drumbeat of politics. Readers Go Electric Over Dylan’s Nobel 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Hahn got the Nobel Prize for his discovery, but Meitner did not, although subsequently she was nominated multiple times. Letters to the Editor 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z You see that woman now and again in “The Super 8 Years,” which was made before she became a Nobel laureate — what timing! ‘The Super 8 Years’ Review: Annie Ernaux’s Celluloid Souvenirs 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The Nobel is a charade, in many respects, but it’s the charade we have. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z "An unusually high number of former Nobel laureates have exercised their nomination right," Englund wrote on his blog. Haruki Murakami leads race for Nobel prize for literature 2012-08-23T15:20:49Z This newly opened photography exhibition features images of Dr. King’s Gandhi-inspired pilgrimage to India in 1959 and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in which he was honored for his nonviolent crusade against racism. Martin Luther King Day: 4 Ways to Honor His Legacy 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z He also describes his feelings upon winning, in 1976, the Nobel prize for literature: "this mixture of glory and horror," he calls it, as if he were not incredibly pleased. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Not that I ever had enough friends to get rid of my 500 spare copies of Golding's Nobel speech. William Blake brought me face to face with my literary fundamentalism 2012-11-06T12:09:21Z The UC Berkeley lab Lawrence founded — now known as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — continues to produce Nobel Prize-winning research, and the Large Hadron Collider follows Lawrence's plan to build ever-more-powerful accelerators. The man who invented 'Big Science,' Ernest Lawrence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Each year, members of the Swedish Academy, professors of literature and language, previous Nobel Prize laureates and leaders of various writers’ organizations around the world are invited to secretly submit nominations for the literature prize. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z I cannot forget that the Nobel Peace Prize was a commission … to work harder than I ever had for the brotherhood of man. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Albert Einstein’s portrait “Moral Conflict” includes a German coin, which symbolizes his Nobel Prize. And now for something lighter: these amusing white-on-white portraits assembled from junk 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z This “war narrative” by the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “hews closer to the Brothers Grimm than to Homer,” in the words of our reviewer, Sana Krasikov. New in Paperback: ‘Patsy’ and ‘Information Wars’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z He and Gidske, who became deputy chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee, were divorced but remained on good terms. George Solomos obituary 2010-12-13T18:26:00Z Whatever was in our future, I doubted it was his Nobel school, though in my hand the slip of paper felt like a ticket, one for a journey I’d never imagined. My little Einstein 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z Belarussian writer Alexievich won last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." 6 intriguing new nonfiction books 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Once again, the Nobel Prize in literature was announced and most Americans were left scratching their heads. 7 reasons why the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is a Belarusian you don't know 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z So there were murmurings of dismay in the publishing community when the Nobel Prize in literature went to a Grammy-winning musician who’s been making headlines for more than five decades. Why Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to the book world 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z It included a scene in which Bialik, who is a neuroscientist in real life, urges young girls to pursue careers in science during her Nobel acceptance speech. An emotional send-off for lovable geeks of ‘Big Bang Theory’ 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The novel that went on sale Friday is the first in three years for the writer frequently mentioned as a Nobel Prize contender. Japanese flock to Murakami book with mystery title 2013-04-12T09:16:04Z Philip Roth, a longtime candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, was asked recently in The New York Times if it bothered him to be repeatedly passed over. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Then, further down, "Only 44 Nobel Prizes to women!" Nobel prize in literature 2012: live blog 2012-10-11T10:49:18Z There’s a line in “Goodbye to Language” in which one character notes that there’s a Nobel Prize for literature but none for painting or music. Godard’s Surprise Win Is a Victory for Independent Cinema 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z In 1925, at the age of 69, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, giving him licence to hold forth on every conceivable subject. George Bernard Shaw and feminism 2011-01-23T22:30:01Z He’s also bringing on CEOs of tech companies and people with other causes, such as Malala, the Muslim teenager who won the Nobel Peace Prize. “If any network had a chance to put Tina Fey in that job, they’d throw every man overboard”: Bill Carter surveys the late-night landscape 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z If we are now handing out Nobel Prizes for song lyrics, I would submit the following verse for consideration: The Best Song for Soothing Your Election Anxiety 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z With good reason: The 2010 Nobel Prize in literature was bestowed upon Vargas Llosa mostly for “his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” Mario Vargas Llosa’s delicious melodrama of sex, love and revenge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z On the morning of the Nobel ceremony, I awoke with some anxiety. Patti Smith on Singing at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The announcement on Thursday morning that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature set off a firestorm of reaction on social media. Bob Dylan, More Than a Songwriter 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z As Vargas Llosa writes in his latest book, it is impossible to know definitively another human being and, it might be added, still less possible to know why one future Nobel laureate punched another. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z In the words of the Nobel citation, his fiction is obsessed with "the cartography of structures of power and trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat". Mario Vargas Llosa: a master of humour and humanity 2010-10-07T17:42:00Z His 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature undermined his outsider status, challenging scholars, fans and critics to think of Dylan as an integral part of international literary heritage. How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of "imitatio" to craft some of the most original songs 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Keaton based the script on Churchill’s voluminous writings — he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 — and on a 1980s teleplay by James C. Humes. Review: ‘Churchill,’ a One-Man Show at New World Stages 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The National Library has built a space deep below the ground that is an exact copy of the home of the poet Nelly Sachs, who won the Nobel Prize in 1966. Read Your Way Through Stockholm 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Theoretically, the Nobel Foundation’s mission is expansive in scope, but it’s profoundly simple, too: Whose work has best improved the world we share? A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Nobel prize for literature winner Mario Vargas Llosa greets the press after his victory was announced. Llosa's life should not eclipse his work 2010-10-07T16:30:00Z The Nobel winner offers a powerful oral history of Russia, post-1991. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his campaign of nonviolent opposition to South Africa’s system of white minority rule. Mural of South Africa’s Desmond Tutu is fixed for his 90th 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Wiesel, who fought to preserve the memory of millions of Holocaust victims, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work. America mourns heroes, rock icons and sporting legends in 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Two Nobel Prizes in Literature were distributed this year as well, for a different reason. ‘Girl, Woman, Other,’ a Big, Busy Novel About New Ways of Living 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Free exhibits fill the center's galleries and walkways, offering a sense of Nordic fashion, the history of the Nobel Prize and as well as art and architecture. Kennedy Center opens Nordic Cool cultural festival 2013-02-20T22:01:13Z LAGOS, Nigeria — Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says his nation Nigeria is "at war" with a radical Islamist sect and shouldn't negotiate with a group that only wants "abysmal appeasement." Nobel laureate Soyinka: Nigeria 'at war' with sect 2012-11-09T14:19:08Z Two years later Hemingway followed "Across the River and Into the Trees" with "The Old Man and the Sea," which was embraced by critics and readers and preceded his being awarded the Nobel Prize. Pierce Brosnan to star in the film version of a forgotten Ernest Hemingway novel 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z This year’s Nobel Laureate for Literature winner is Mo Yan, a Chinese writer living in China. ‘Pow!’ a Nobel Laureate’s view of a small Chinese village 2012-12-20T22:52:09Z It may be that the Nobel was never worthy of this iconoclastic satirist, wily cultural historian, sublime fictive ranter, comic tragedian, outraged citizen, contradictory wit, epic insulter and monumental imaginer. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The American poet Louise Glück was awarded last year’s literature prize for writing “that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” according to the citation from the Nobel committee. Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z "What a joy that Bob Dylan got the Nobel for literature. Many fond memories from my adolescence are associated with his music," she tweeted. The Latest: Chilean president congratulates Dylan 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z If you want to know how to get a Nobel Prize, the obvious answer is: practice. I was the new Nobel Prize winner’s lab rat 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z A Nobel raises the profile of its author considerably. Why Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to the book world 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The 2016 Nobel Prize is simply the crowning achievement of an extraordinary life. Why Bob Dylan’s Impact Is Bigger Than His Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z These fitted well with previous age estimates, earning its developer – Willard Libby, of Chicago University – a Nobel prize. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z The Nobel Foundation said alternative Nobel efforts appear from time to time. Not-the-Nobel Prize in Literature Is Announced 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, literature and economic science are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway. From afar, Dylan muses on honor and surprise of Nobel prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z In recent years, the Algerian-born author was among those rumored to be in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Assia Djebar dies in Paris at 78 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z She has a tiresome belief in her own fabulousness and a habit of sounding as if she is quoting from her own Nobel citation. The Multiverse Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be in ‘Come With Me’ 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Nearly three weeks after the Nobel announcement, Barnes & Noble’s website had digital editions of Gurnah’s novels, but only one, “Paradise,” was available in print. He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z A hand-edited script of the 1938 Nobel Prize acceptance speech of Pearl S. Buck, the first American woman to win that honor, will also be on view. Revisiting the Fervor of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z It's the stripey one-piece bathing costume that makes the image of George Bernard Shaw, playwright, critic, socialist and Nobel laureate, terrifyingly memorable. George Bernard Shaw photographs uncover the larky private man 2010-09-08T10:22:00Z An elite team of Nobel Prize-winning philosophers, Oxford scholars and criminologists worked round the clock for six years compiling the 7,000-plus images and 10 million words of text that you are about to read. Sex! Drugs! Violence! Great moments in exploitation cinema 2010-10-09T00:20:00Z Few American readers were familiar with Mr. Modiano’s fiction when he won the Nobel. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Walcott, a Nobel laureate tipped as the strongest candidate, dropped out of the election when the allegations were widely publicised. Forward shortlist includes Geoffrey Hill, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent 2011-07-13T23:05:01Z His death was announced on the Nobel Prize’s Web site. Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z When the military took power in 1973, Chile’s most famous poet was Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Prize winner and atheist communist. Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet. 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z She spoke to The Associated Press before the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo Sunday, which she will host together with American actress Rosario Dawson. Helen Mirren hails Nobel Peace Prize laureates 2011-12-11T15:36:08Z I think it may now be called a classic, since he recently won the Nobel Prize: Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Remains of the Day.” Chigozie Obioma: By the Book 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z It was a pleasant surprise for many armchair Nobel enthusiasts as well, after two years of dark-horse candidates. Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature Goes with a Well-Known Name 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z He prefers to talk art, not politics, dropping in references to Goethe and Italo Calvino and comparing himself to last year's Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Wang Xiaofang exposes world of Chinese bureaucracy 2011-02-25T19:19:44Z To win the Nobel, South Korea must first produce books the Nobel committee can read, and the pressure to do that falls squarely on the L.T.I. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature will be named on Thursday, the Swedish Academy announced on Monday. ArtsBeat Blog: Nobel for Literature to Be Awarded Thursday 2011-10-03T14:52:30Z After winning the Nobel Prize in 1956, Shockley decided to attach his transistors to wafers made of silicon, an abundant element and primary component of sand. In Silicon Valley, dropping in at the GooglePlex, tech museums and the Jobs garage 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Next week’s announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be followed by the awarding of the Man Booker Prize later in October and the National Book Awards in November. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z A similar sentiment is being voiced at the National Theater by the widow of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist in Lucy Kirkwood’s “Mosquitoes.” Women Without Options and Spoiled for Choice 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Asked why he did not get a Nobel prize, Salk replied: “Everybody thinks I got it. So that’s fine.” The lifesaver 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The Cervantes is likened to a Nobel for literature in Spanish. Ana Maria Matute wins Spain's Cervantes prize 2010-11-24T14:59:00Z Mr. Nash, whose life inspired the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1994, at a time when he was unemployed, after years of struggling with mental illness. Beautiful Mind, Valuable Medal: John Nash’s Nobel to Be Auctioned 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z "I suspect that win, lose or draw, this will be how I'm remembered, unless I win the Nobel prize for physics, which is not likely because I'm not a physicist." Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z The Nobel Peace Prize nominee joined a coterie of celebrities at the reopening of the Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve. Puerto Rico puts Hurricane Maria — and the bulk of the recovery — behind it 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z But — as a recent Nobel Prize winner once said — the times, they are a-changin’. You are what — and where — you eat: From the Lanford Inn seafood buffet to those “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” organic strawberry donuts 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The poet Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in literature last year. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z He said, “Yeah, this is for Bob’s speech for the Nobel.” ‘A Really Cool Gig’: Playing Piano for Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z I speculate that, the combination of 1. and 2. is why he was not given the Nobel. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The afternoon will also include video messages on non-violence from other Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Manchester prepares for visit by Dalai Lama 2012-06-13T09:00:00Z The book's towering position in the literary world was reflected in a statement by Barnes & Nobel Chief Executive Ron Boire's statement. Harper Lee remembered by a president, publishers and more 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Now almost fully recovered, Malala’s profile is so high she was tipped as a favourite for this year’s Nobel peace prize. Six teenagers who rocked the world 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Let the Nobel committee give him a premature Peace Prize; the House and Senate Republicans would deny him any favors, correctly judging that Obama’s push would never come to shove. 2016: Obama's America: Dinesh D'Souza Sees an End-of-Times 2012-08-24T19:27:44Z A Nobel Prize-winning British scientist attempted to apologize on Wednesday following backlash over sexist comments that he made about women in his field. Nobel Laureate Walks Back Sexist Comments After Backlash 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “It will happen at some point: Korea will win the Nobel Prize in Literature,” he said. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Nobel prizewinner Bob Dylan said on Monday that unlike literature his songs were meant to be sung not read and that they only needed to move people, not to make sense. Dylan's Nobel speech: songs only need to move you, not make sense 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The former Nobel peace prize nominee, who was due to perform with in Johannesburg on Sunday, was quoted in South Africa's Sunday Times newspaper defending IRA rebel songs as "folk music". Bono rebel song row takes centre stage in South Africa 2011-02-13T21:14:03Z Literary prizes are not worthy of this kind of fiction, except, of course, the Nobel. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z And now that she has a Nobel Peace Prize under her belt and political aspirations in her future, Malala is poised to become the first world leader from Generation Potter. Why Malala's Story Sounds Like Another Story You Already Know 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z State media celebrated Mo's win and the Nobel website rapidly filled with comments from Chinese users expressing pride at his triumph. Mo Yan's Nobel prize for literature sparks celebration in China 2012-10-11T18:33:56Z A plaque on the back of the bench contains a quote by the late Paul Samuelson, a Nobel Laureate in economics: “A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.” Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis A newly discovered manuscript by the American Nobel prize winner Pearl S Buck is set for publication this autumn, 40 years after her death. Lost Pearl S Buck novel due out this autumn 2013-05-24T12:48:28Z Praised by the Swedish Academy for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony", the award of the Nobel prize in 1998 took his fame to a new level. Nobel laureate Jos? Saramago dies, aged 87 2010-06-18T15:19:00Z The curators were convicted for their 2007 exhibit entitled "Forbidden Art" at the Sakharov Museum, a human rights center named after celebrated dissident physicist and Nobel peace prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. Russian curators sentenced but not imprisoned 2010-07-12T14:44:00Z It began when James Knowlson, a young academic working in the French department, decided to mount a Beckett exhibition, after the writer was awarded a Nobel prize for literature in 1969. Samuel Beckett's Murphy draft bought by Reading University for £1m 2013-07-10T17:36:35Z The Nobel was seen, Lovell writes, as something that would “affirm China as a powerful, modern, international civilization.” Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z This year’s Nobel ceremony in Stockholm has been canceled because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z His nomination for outstanding variety, music or comedy series is a little like ’s Nobel Peace Prize — political, premature and meant mostly as an affront to his predecessor. The TV Watch: It?s Time to End Emmy ?Reruns? 2010-08-26T21:24:00Z China disavowed its only literature Nobel Prize winner, Gao Xingjian, who left China for France in the 1980s to escape censorship. Chinese writers call for more translations 2011-08-26T10:31:04Z Before winning the Nobel prize, Pamuk stood trial in Turkey on charges of “insulting Turkishness” after telling a Swiss newspaper that 1 million Armenians were killed on Turkish territory in the early 20th century. 2006 Nobel laureate Pamuk probed for insulting leader 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z For the second year in a row, this year’s Nobel ceremony in Stockholm has been canceled because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Bose draws from the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Prize-winning Bengali author whose lyrics were adapted for the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh. Review | In the galleries: Images in ‘Weather the Storm’ are both reassuring and ominous 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The prestige of the Nobel amplifies his voice in those battles, though, and he feels a responsibility to use it. Wole Soyinka Is Not Going Anywhere 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Foster was his student when she attended Yale University in the 1980s and he helped advise her on her senior thesis about Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Nobelist Wole Soyinka to honor Henry Louis Gates at PEN gala 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The New Academy stuck to the Nobel calendar, in which winners are named in October and receive their awards in December, but it departed from tradition by opening up much of its decision-making. With No Nobel Prize in Literature This Year, Another Award Steps In 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z In 1993 she became the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Toni Morrison Papers Will Go To Princeton 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The Swedish Academy will announce the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday this week at 0700, it said in a statement on Monday. Swedish Academy to announce Nobel literature prize on Thursday 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z In connection with the deal, the network has also acquired the rights to adapt the novels and short stories of Nobel Prize winning Southern author William Faulkner. HBO Signs David Milch and His New Partner, William Faulkner 2011-11-30T19:55:19Z The Nobel Prizes were established after the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other explosives, in 1896. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z After Bob Dylan was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature last October, the literary commentariat wrestled with a fundamental question: Can song lyrics be literature? Bob Dylan Delivers His Nobel Prize Lecture, Just in Time 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z No one is a "winner" of the Nobel Prize. Review: ‘Phaedra(s)’ Goes Psycho With Isabelle Huppert 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z She told me that she was there to honor her boss, who was receiving the Nobel Prize in Medicine, but the weather was not in her favor. Patti Smith on Singing at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Actor Sean Penn is being honored by a group of Nobel laureates for his relief work in Haiti following the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake. Sean Penn's Haiti work earns humanitarian prize 2012-03-19T19:46:12Z The Swedish Academy keeps secret for 50 years all information about the authors nominated for the Nobel, only releasing their shortlist for the 1962 prize yesterday. Swedish Academy reopens controversy surrounding Steinbeck's Nobel prize 2013-01-03T15:43:46Z “The Stockholm Syndrome,” the comedy’s final episode, sent the characters on a journey to Sweden to celebrate Sheldon and Amy’s Nobel prize win. As "Game of Thrones" ends, we have to ask: What do we expect from a series finale? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The paean to Britain's might, however, does not scale the heights of the literary efforts that marked Churchill's later life – including his Nobel Prize-winning History of the English Speaking Peoples. Winston Churchill manuscript reveals his poetic side 2013-02-06T20:30:03Z It’s not unusual for publishers and booksellers to be caught off guard by the Nobel. He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z That’s the only question for the Nobel committee that finally chose Bob Dylan to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature this year. Bob Dylan: America’s Great One-Man Songbook 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Valerie Eliot was the second wife of the US-born Nobel laureate in literature, whom she met at London publisher Faber & Faber. Valerie Eliot, widow of TS Eliot, dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:55:00Z According to the archivists, the memoir also details a boozy evening with Hemingway in 1954 following the great American novelist’s Nobel Prize for literature victory. Orson Welles memoir found 30 years after great director's death 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z On Dec. 7, in her Nobel Prize lecture, Ernaux spoke about her roots in provincial France, her love of books and desire to write, a yearning that was thwarted by her position as a woman. ‘The Super 8 Years’ Review: Annie Ernaux’s Celluloid Souvenirs 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z One is either part of what former Nobel prize committee member Horace Engdahl calls "the great dialogue of literature about the improvement of humanity", or suggesting that one doesn't particularly care for it. Antjie Krog: Should Should power listen to poetry?| World Writers Conference 2012-09-26T09:47:23Z Dylan, whose songs are taught as poetry at colleges across the country, is the first musician to be awarded the Nobel for literature. Bob Dylan won't be at the Nobel ceremony; Patti Smith singing instead 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z “The Code Breaker,” by Walter Isaacson, should perhaps be titled “The Code Breakers,” because it’s about two women who discovered new molecular gene-editing tools and shared the Nobel Prize for their pioneering work. The 1,328-Page Novel That Captivated the Primatologist Frans de Waal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z They were picked for their struggle against the oppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Pakistani teen, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z The stylish underground bar is a shrine to two of the Nobel laureate’s favorite things: booze and himself. 36 Hours in Montpellier, France 2012-08-09T19:11:35Z The Stockholm-based nonprofit stepped in to honor a writer this year after the Swedish Academy postponed the Nobel Prize in literature. Not-the-Nobel Prize in Literature Is Announced 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Maybe, maybe not; for those non-Anglo writers who won it decades ago, it’s hard to know whether the Nobel alone was responsible for their renown here. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z There was a lot of history in the making in the announcement Friday of the shared recipients of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobels show why we have to fight for education 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The Polar Music Prize is the so-called “Nobel of the music world,” awarded annually to one recipient each from the fields of modern and classical music. Chuck Berry Honored With 'Music's Nobel Prize' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Mirren was in Israel to host the Genesis prize, an award known as the “Jewish Nobel”. Helen Mirren criticises Israel boycotters 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Any author who creates a billionaire gingerbread man called Alan Taylor deserves to win the Nobel prize for literature. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z One of the founders of modern existentialism, Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus, explicitly acknowledged Melville as an intellectual forebear. The lessons "Moby Dick" has for a warming world of rising waters 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Two candidates on the list would present an interesting challenge for the Nobel committee, which expects the winner to attend the presentation ceremony and give a robust acceptance speech. Will Don DeLillo win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Under a darkening cloud of sexual-harassment allegations, the members of the Swedish Academy announced Friday that they will not award a Nobel Prize in literature this year. Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Ragip Zarakolu, the founder of a publishing house famed for supporting minority issues and a Nobel peace prize nominee, spent six months in prison last year. London Book Fair: Elif Shafak on Turkey's progress 2013-04-12T15:00:02Z His first poems appeared in student publications in the 1940s, according to his Nobel Prize biography. Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z The Nobel committee lauded him “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most unspeakable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.” Patrick Modiano, an Author of Paris Mysteries, Keeps His Own 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z This year's show honors Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident writer and human rights activist who is currently imprisoned in his home country. Anne Hathaway, Denzel Washington to co-host Nobel peace concert 2010-11-19T02:54:00Z Morrison lives in my imagination at a higher plane than any other living writer, a Nobel laureate operating at the peak of language and moral clarity — a mythical, monumental deity of American letters. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z In it, we see what Saramago called “the green that preceded the harvest” — the beginning of his brilliant, Nobel Prize-winning career. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Blackett, who went on to win the Nobel prize for physics, clearly didn't eat the apple, nor did Oppenheimer face criminal charges. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Photograph: Graeme Robertson Günter Grass, the Nobel prize-winning author of acclaimed memoirs Peeling the Onion and The Box, has revealed that his new book will be his last venture into autobiography. G?nter Grass writes final autobiography 2010-08-24T13:25:00Z After all, this isn't the Nobel prize – it's an awards show about pop music. Mercury prize and Mobo awards: music's judgment week begins 2012-10-28T17:54:00Z Mr. Delibes was often Spain’s leading nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Miguel Delibes, Prolific Spanish Writer, Dies at 89 2010-03-18T05:38:00Z No, not some duchess, celebrity or Nobel jurist, but — well, just a kid, really, holding a book. In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z It's back to the serious business of reading – and a book by a Nobel prize-winning literary heavyweight, no less. Reading group: The Immoralist, by André Gide 2012-07-05T08:40:07Z Giving a Nobel to Bob Dylan was controversial, I know. Jordan Ellenberg Wouldn’t Have Given the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z In 1980 he took the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature three years later. Golding Flies classic marks 60 years 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z In 1949, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet and leftist political luminary narrowly escaped arrest for his political leanings by fleeing his homeland on horseback through the Andes Mountains. Seattle Peace Chorus to tackle Neruda’s ‘Canto General’ June 1 2013-05-31T18:51:22Z July 2 Elie Wiesel , a Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of “Night,” which recounts his experiences at Auschwitz, dies at 87. Who needs a Nobel Prize? Who is Elena Ferrante? And other literary news in 2016. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Next up from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: More oldies. Bob Dylan’s Next Act: A Triple Album of Standards 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The list of Nobel laureates is hardly definitive. Why Bob Dylan’s Impact Is Bigger Than His Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z “Really? A pop star wins the Nobel?” she asked. Readers Go Electric Over Dylan’s Nobel 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z But Wylie said the issues began long before the Nobel news. Dispute Erupts Over Translation Rights to New Nobel Laureate 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Although his journey was derided by some critics as a publicity stunt, the actor dismissed the remarks, telling reporters how his life had been changed by the Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Hugh O’Brian, square-jawed actor who played Wyatt Earp on TV, dies at 91 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Not everyone predicted to win a Nobel prize actually does one in twenty actually do! Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The signatories, who all won their Nobel prizes for contributions aimed at ending violence, called on NBC to "stop airing this program." Nobel laureates call for end to TV's "Stars Earn Stripes" 2012-08-13T21:01:26Z He also was a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in literature. Israeli media: Acclaimed author Amos Oz dies at 79 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Being smart meant getting into a good college, then becoming a brain surgeon, or a Supreme Court justice or winning a Nobel Peace Prize by ending world hunger. My daughter can’t be average 2012-10-22T01:00:00Z The Nobel literature laureate announced the plan at a news conference Wednesday, his 76th birthday. Vargas Llosa donates library to Peruvian hometown 2012-03-29T01:55:13Z Embedded in the pavement in front of it is a plaque dedicated to the Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, who was born there on April 23, 1902. Read Your Way Through Reykjavík 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z One of them, Arthur Ashkin of Bell Labs in New Jersey, became the oldest person to receive a Nobel. Winners of Nobel Prize honored for their work with lasers 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Which makes you wonder: Does the Nobel Prize committee know more about us than we know about ourselves? Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Another Nobel laureate and Princeton faculty member, Toni Morrison, said in a statement that giving him the prize was a "brilliant choice." Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z I'm sure it will go right next to her husband's Grammys and Nobel Peace Prize on the mantel of their fireplace. Conservatives and liberals are split over Michelle Obama's Grammy win 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z It’s like your child who just won the Nobel Prize. Work at a Kansas City Museum May Be by Hieronymus Bosch, Researchers Say 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus are among those providing blurbs for “The Worth of Water,” which the Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker worked on with civil and environmental engineer Gary White. Matt Damon co-writing a book on access to clean water 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z There are many adjectives you can use to describe the fiction of the French novelist Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Glück spoke to The Times a few hours after the news of her Nobel Prize broke. ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Amnesty International is behind it, and they’ve won a Nobel Prize. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z For Glück, who has always had a complicated relationship to literary renown, winning the Nobel felt like a long shot, and she found herself unsettled by the news on Thursday. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The Pritzker family founded the prize because of its involvement with developing Hyatt Hotel properties around the world and because architecture was not included in the Nobel prizes. Toyo Ito becomes sixth Japanese architect to win Pritzker Prize 2013-03-18T19:09:20Z American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, lauded for creating "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Some lyrics from Bob Dylan songs 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Mann, a Nobel laureate, left Germany in the early 1930s when Hitler rose to power. Germany Buys Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles Home 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z If you were a one-person Nobel committee this fall, whom would you give it to? The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In January, Thomas’s 19-ton bronze monument to the Kings — inspired by a photo of the couple after Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 — was criticized and mocked online. Creator of Divisive King Monument Builds Sculpture for Super Bowl 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The Serpentine Pavilion has always had a close relationship with the Pritzker prize, the award that is the Nobel Prize for architecture in all but name. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z In 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel, surprising many of the bookmakers in Britain who had failed to name him as a possibility. ArtsBeat Blog: Nobel for Literature to Be Awarded Thursday 2011-10-03T14:52:30Z The Swedish Academy, which announced today that Alexievich will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, cited the writer for inventing “a new kind of literary genre.” Svetlana Alexievich’s Deserved Nobel Win 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z That Hemingway loved being famous is amply demonstrated here by the scrapbook he kept of congratulatory telegrams he received in October 1954 after winning the Nobel Prize. Batch of Hemingway Ephemera From Cuba Is Digitized 2014-02-10T22:52:36Z Their portraits hang in the paper’s Moscow office, and Mr. Muratov has described his Nobel as a tribute to them. Russian Journalist to Auction Nobel Medal to Benefit Ukraine 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z These are late stories by the Nobel prizewinner, all set in Manhattan or Miami. Edmund White's top 10 New York books 2011-01-12T12:24:11Z The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced on Oct. Russian lawyer wins Norwegian human rights prize 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Nash, a longtime resident of Princeton Junction, N.J., won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on game theory. 'A Beautiful Mind' Mathematician Killed in New Jersey Taxi Crash 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Soon to be better known in the English-speaking world: Patrick Modiano, this year’s winner of the Nobel in Literature. Patrick Modiano's Nobel in Literature: The Swedes Got It Right 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z One last question to contemplate: Is this volume being rushed out a week before its original publication date to respond to critics of the Nobel selection? One way to enjoy Bob Dylan’s songs without hearing his voice 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Q: What did the Nobel Prize chairman say about The Style Invitational’s contribution to literature? Style Invitational Week 1353: What’s playing at the retroplex 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Oct. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Local media outlets reports the Nobel laureate met with students and presented a reading Wednesday at Oberlin College from her latest novel, "Home." Toni Morrison tells Ohioans she won't write memoir 2012-03-15T12:30:09Z Compared to Winston Churchill, who won a Nobel prize for literature, and left the landscape of English prose on fire with inspiration, Thatcher is a non-starter. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z When he was awarded the Nobel, for “his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights,” he became a global celebrity. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Among the many literary awards she won was, in 2013, the Janus Pannonius Poetry Prize from the Hungarian PEN Club, which carries a 50,000-euro prize and is sometimes called the Nobel Prize for poetry. Simin Behbahani, Outspoken Iranian Poet, Dies at 87 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The novel won the International Booker Prize and became a finalist for the National Book Award for translated literature, helping Tokarczuk, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize, gain a much larger global audience. Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z According to Borrás, Wylie did not offer Pre-Textos a chance to sign a new rights contract after Glück won the Nobel. Dispute Erupts Over Translation Rights to New Nobel Laureate 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z “Toni Morrison was the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize. May she rest in power. #RememberHerName” — Billie Jean King, via Twitter. Barack Obama, Beyonce, others react to Toni Morrison’s death 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z He later learned it was from Sweden; he’d won the Nobel Prize in economics. Spam has taken over our phones. Will we ever want to answer them again? 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Eliot, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948, was considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. T.S. Eliot's summer house for sale for $1.3 million 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The work is inspired by the Icelandic Nobel laureate Haldor Laxness’s 1937 novel “World Light,” whose protagonist is on a quest to become a poet. Testing German Ideas of Beauty 2014-02-19T14:22:11Z At the same time, Mr. Dylan, who cited only “pre-existing commitments” when he finally declined the Nobel invitation, was being spoken about in near-mythical terms outside of Stockholm, as well. Bob Dylan Sends Warm Words but Skips Nobel Prize Ceremonies 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z When she won the Nobel, Ms. Alexievich was little known in the West. Review: In ‘Secondhand Time,’ Voices From a Lost Russia 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The only character Wolfe seems to admire is a dapper Nobel laureate who argues, in a neuropsychology lecture, that human social life is as predictable as that of ants. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Photograph: Geraint Lewis / Rex Features ✒This week the £40,000 David Cohen prize for a lifetime's achievement in English literature – the closest thing British letters has to a Nobel – was awarded to Hilary Mantel. Why Hilary Mantel deserves another prize 2013-03-08T09:52:28Z The Nobel laureate's jolly outlook in Norwich was markedly different to his appearance at the Adelaide Writers' Week earlier this year, introducing the British author Geoff Dyer. JM Coetzee rocks the house 2010-06-29T13:23:00Z The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize highlighted women's rights and women's efforts in building peace. Mirren to co-host Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2011-11-18T18:08:19Z Gurnah, 72, is the first Black writer to receive the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and some observers saw his selection as a long overdue corrective after years of European and American Nobel laureates. Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Before this Nobel Prize, Mr. Dylan has been recognized by the world of literature and poetry. Bob Dylan on the Page: Poetry and Prose to Match Any American Writer 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Have you spoken to your old friend Bob Dylan about his big award this year, the Nobel Prize for Literature? Mavis Staples on Her Kennedy Center Honor and Fist-Bumping James Taylor 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z When Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007, she spoke of returning to Zimbabwe and the pressing needs of schools there. More than 3,000 of Doris Lessing's books heading to Zimbabwe 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh tweeted that he was a Dylan fan, but he called the Nobel “an ill-conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies.” Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Past recipients of the £40,000 prize, described by judges as the UK's Nobel Prize for Literature, include Harold Pinter and Doris Lessing. Lifetime honour for author Barnes 2011-03-18T10:27:47Z Photograph: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Both are famous for chronicling the darker side of adolescence, but where William Golding won a Nobel prize for his work, so far Stephen King has had to settle for bestsellerdom. Stephen King joins William Golding centenary celebrations 2011-04-11T14:35:18Z Both men were awarded their Nobels in December, and Vargas Llosa called Liu "a Chinese fighter, who is a champion of democracy in his country." In China, Vargas Llosa criticizes authoritarianism 2011-06-15T05:58:08Z Francis Crick, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix of the DNA molecule, wrote a paper in the 1970s theorizing that life on earth was planted by someplace else, some higher society. There are some mysteries Patricia Cornwell, crime novelist and creator of Kay Scarpetta, can't crack 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z In his own work, the Nobel Prize-winning author may reinvent the rules of fiction, but his literary criticism hews to more traditional formulas, enriched with fascinating biographies of writers and brilliant psychologizing of their characters. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Ratcliffe’s vindication is an old Nobel tradition and not just for medicine. Not so fast: Many Nobel winners endured initial rejections 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Nearly two decades after they first met, she traveled to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Lech Walesa's behalf in 1983. Lech Walesa's wife shakes Poland with frank biography 2011-11-22T15:20:12Z It was later clad in Concejo’s illustrations and grew into a creation that the Literary Nobel winner of 2018 says she likes “very much.” Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s art book hits bookstores 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z The outpouring of love and affection expressed for him by his collaborators and friends is on the level usually reserved for the likes of spiritual gurus or Nobel laureates. Allen Ginsberg celebrated by rock stars at the Ace Hotel in L.A. 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The last American writer to win the Nobel was Toni Morrison, in 1993. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z As Germany’s greatest living writer and a Nobel laureate in literature, he has also raised a question both inconvenient and impolite. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z Unknown hackers on Thursday posted the information on what looked like an official Nobel Prize Web site. Internet hoax has Serb writer as Nobel winner 2011-10-06T12:19:11Z His relatively quiet life in Sweden was interrupted in October, when the announcement of Mr. Dylan’s Nobel Prize had his phone ringing off the hook. Settled in Sweden, the Man Who First Booked Dylan 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Some of its authors enjoy worldwide reputations, with one Nobel literature laureate, S.Y. Bill would protect Israeli authors' royalties 2012-06-14T18:42:08Z Number of Nobel Prize winners for literature who also have designed a welded sculptured entryway at MGM National Harbor. A telling set of numbers for a $1.4 billion casino facility 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Few poets offer their biographers as rich a vein of material as the Chilean Nobel Prize-winner Pablo Neruda . Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z While the relationship between Vargas Llosa the novelist and the political activist remains puzzling and, for many, problematic, the Nobel prize may help restore his fiction to its central place. Llosa's life should not eclipse his work 2010-10-07T16:30:00Z It was an episode so formative that the poet recounted it at length in his Nobel acceptance speech in 1971. Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Despite a string of 20th century laureates, no American has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature since Toni Morrison's 1993 win. Book trends in 2016: Paper is popular, science fiction rises, long-form nonfiction dips 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z This year the world saw Malala Yousafzai share the Nobel Peace Prize for defying the Taliban on her quest for education for girls. Here's What Hannah Simone Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Two Nobel Prizes in Literature will be awarded this year, the Nobel Foundation announced in a statement on Tuesday. Two Nobel Prizes in Literature to Be Awarded This Year After Scandal 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Apathy is the biggest obstacle to eliminating forced child labor and the world needs more secular education to reduce intolerance, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi said on Tuesday. Apathy biggest bar to ending child slavery: Nobel prize winner 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Whether the prize will generate the buzz that the Nobel does is an open question. With No Nobel Prize in Literature This Year, Another Award Steps In 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo, Yoshino said he thought there might be a long wait before the Nobel committee turned to his specialty — but his turn came sooner than he thought. Scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on lithium-ion battery 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The British novelist, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2009 for her novel The Children's Book, has been given odds of 18/1 to take the Nobel this year, up from 50/1 last year. Poet tipped in Nobel prize for literature 2010-09-30T10:45:00Z She said the academy isn't making further efforts to reach him, but hopes he will accept the invitation to collect his award at the annual Nobel ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10. 5 days later, no word from Dylan on Nobel literature prize 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Her performance, in The Wife, as the enigmatically reserved wife of the conceited Saul Bellow-style Nobel laureate novelist is a high-IQ treat. Oscar nominations 2019: Roma and The Favourite deserve acclaim, but no female directors is woeful 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The Nobel Foundation had warned that another group could be picked to award the prize if the academy did not improve its tarnished image. Swedish Academy to announce 2 Nobel literature prizes in Oct 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Do colleagues praise you for your crisp, articulate, Nobel Laureate-worthy email updates? 10 Simple Ways to Become a Better Writer 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z “When you think that you lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more,” as the Nobel laureate Bob Dylan once put it. In Trying Times, 20 Wines Under $20 That Revive and Restore 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z In 2014 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with an Indian activist. 'I've never been so happy': Nobel winner Malala in Pakistan 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z But it’s important to keep in mind that while foreign translations from most literary writers can be hard to come by, there really isn’t reason to complain about Nobel winners being inaccessible. Why You Haven't Heard of Patrick Modiano, Winner of the Nobel in Literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z We'll have more on the Nobel Prize in literature after its announcement Thursday. Who will win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Its 80 freehand renderings of different brain cells, as viewed through a microscope, helped prove that they are unconnected, communicating across tiny gaps called synaptic clefts, which earned Cajal a Nobel Prize in 1906. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Roosevelt met here with representatives from Japan and Russia during the negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War, an effort for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island estate speaks volumes — literally — about his character 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z However, the fact that Allison won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this past October assures immunotherapy its rightful place in the fight against cancer. Could Immunotherapy Offer a Cure for Cancer? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z And now he has won the Nobel prize for literature. Mario Vargas Llosa: an unclassifiable Nobel winner 2010-10-08T10:50:00Z Mr Stiglitz has won a Nobel prize, served as a feather-ruffling chief economist for the World Bank and written several books with a fair claim to prescience, notably, “Globalisation and Its Discontents”, published in 2002. On course to fail 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Today, just one Korean name surfaces frequently in discussion of the Nobel: Ko Un, the octogenarian Buddhist monk, activist, and poet. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In her Nobel Prize lecture, Toni Morrison recounted a folktale found across many cultures. A New Collection Upends Conventional Wisdom About Migration 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Even before the Nobel, Dylan has been one of the most written-about musicians ever, constantly being assessed in newspaper reviews, books like “Positively Fourth Street,” and magazine stories. Bob Dylan’s legendary defiance: “They had to crank it up to drown out the boos” when he went electric 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Eminent biologists and doctors, including Nobel laureates, dismissed their work as scientifically worthless, unnecessary and ethically questionable, and the Medical Research Council would not fund it. Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Incidentally, the 2007 ‘Ig’ Nobel Prize, awarded annually for that year’s most useless research, was awarded to three Argentinian scientists who discovered that Viagra helped hamsters recover faster from jet-lag. From Viagra to Valium, the drugs that were discovered by accident 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize has its critics but actually is the most reliable way I know to find great writers you’d otherwise never encounter. Jordan Ellenberg Wouldn’t Have Given the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Nuruddin Farah didn’t win the Nobel Prize in literature last month as was predicted — or at least hoped — in some quarters, but he remains a perennial contender. Nuruddin Farah’s ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ wrestles with grand political, social themes Yet that is what the Indian poet and Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore did with a town called Shantiniketan, or “Abode of Peace.” Footsteps: Where a Poet’s Vision Lives on in India 2013-02-01T18:07:13Z Through Ikram, he specially made the gray-blue dress she wore to the Nobel Prize awards. Azzedine Ala?a: The Master of the Female Form 2010-12-09T00:04:00Z Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, renewed her call for world peace and universal education on Tuesday at a ceremony in which she was awarded the Liberty Medal. Noble prize winner Malala Yousafzai renews call for education for all 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Though Mo, 57, is the first Chinese national to win the Nobel literature prize, he’s not the first Chinese. Chinese Writer Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T11:10:26Z The awards were established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel - the inventor of dynamite - and are always handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of his death in 1896. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T12:44:00Z The Nobel season gets under way on Monday with the award for the prize in medicine or physiology. Nobel Literature winner to be announced October 6 2011-10-03T08:58:03Z Though the country’s Nobel hopes have been pinned on him, Ko Un is not particularly popular among Korean readers. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The award divided opinion when it was announced, drawing more mixed publicity when Dylan first stayed silent about it for weeks and then declined to attend December's annual Nobel banquet. Nobel saga all over now as Dylan finally gets prize 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Delibes won Spain’s most important laurels: the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor; the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, often described as the Spanish Nobel Prize; and the National Literature Award. Miguel Delibes, Prolific Spanish Writer, Dies at 89 2010-03-18T05:38:00Z The Nobel laureate had previously remarked that there were no monuments to slavery in America, "not even a bench by the road". Point of view: Tracy Chevalier on the power of silence 2013-03-14T12:05:01Z Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for developing the world’s smallest machines. 3 win Nobel Prize in chemistry for world’s tiniest machines 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z In this oral history, the Nobel laureate channels the memories of Russians who experienced World War II as children, allowing the malleable perception of youth to flash alongside the adult’s somber recollection. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z "The Pritzker Prize is like a Nobel Prize in architecture," the newspaper Beijing Youth Daily said in March. Pritzker prize's other winner in China: Hyatt 2012-05-24T11:31:05Z The winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo on Oct. Denzel Washington to host Nobel Peace concert 2010-09-30T12:34:00Z José Saramago, Portugal's Nobel prize winner, magically suspended the laws of reality and probability in order to write about undiscovered islands, buoyant ships of stone and elephants trudging over the Alps. The Land at the End of the World by Ant?nio Lobo Antunes ? review 2011-07-21T10:45:01Z This period drama by Wash Westmoreland charts her evolution from a country girl to a fearless game-changer whose somewhat risqué novels about strong women earned her a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Colette’ and ‘Terrace House’ 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z His Nobel medal, however, is not on display and remains with his family. Egypt opens museum commemorating Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z And Scandinavian films seem especially likely to lose something in translation: if La-la Land is all about surface, lightness, and escapism, the land of Bergman, IKEA, and the Nobel Prize is somber, cool, and understated. Hollywood Goes to Sweden 2010-02-18T17:04:00Z The last American writer to win the Nobel for literature was Toni Morrison, in 1993. Patrick Modiano Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z In his Nobel lecture, Mr. Heaney described listening to the radio as a child, and how he “got used to hearing short bursts of foreign languages as the dial hand swept round.” ArtsBeat: Seamus Heaney’s ‘Journey Into the Wideness of Language’ 2013-08-30T16:30:26Z How many such people have a plaque in their houses acknowledging their contributions to Nobel Prize-winning research? Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z She wound up sharing the 2020 Nobel Prize for a DNA-editing innovation that may change almost everything about what it means to be human. 10 books to read in March 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Learn about the dreams of the young Egyptian writer Taha Hussein, who was nominated 14 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Like "Little Women," books by Zitkála-Šá and Taha Hussein are classics 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Tutu, who earned a Nobel for his peaceful opposition to apartheid, on Tuesday compared Cape Town Opera's planned visit to international artists performing in apartheid South Africa. S.African opera rejects call to cancel Israel tour 2010-10-27T11:26:00Z Although Franklin’s death from cancer at 37 precluded her sharing the Nobel Prize that this breakthrough brought, her X-ray photography provided the critical evidence of the molecule’s famed double helix. Sloan Group Is Lab Partner to the Arts 2011-05-06T23:30:26Z On Monday afternoon, several people stopped to buy books, largely grabbing novels, including one by the Portuguese writer José Saramago, a Nobel laureate. As London Bookstores Reopen, Eager Readers Return 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z This song – along with others such as “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and “Chimes of Freedom” – are among the reasons Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The soundtrack of the Sixties demanded respect, justice and equality 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z "The way in which the Nobel prize is deserved, for me, is a total mystery," he said. Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa rules out Peru presidency rerun 2010-12-06T20:07:00Z Three scientists from the United States, Canada and France won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for work with lasers described as bringing science fiction into reality. Winners of Nobel Prize honored for their work with lasers 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z I present them to you today, humbly, but in hopes of winning a Nobel Prize. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A sudden storm, followed by utter panic — and a road map for world peace 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The foundation cut the size of the Nobel Prize in 2011 to 8 million from 10 million and began cost savings after a decade of overspending. Nobel laureates in line for even bigger pay-day 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z This weekend, party it up at the Capitol Hill Block Party or meet the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner. 5 things to do this weekend: Capitol Hill Block Party, frugal road trips and more 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature last month in recognition of his more than 30 novels, plays and essays, including "Conversation in the Cathedral" and "The Green House." Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa's birth home honored 2010-11-19T16:15:00Z Jason Farago The announcement that novelist Mo Yan had won the Nobel prize in literature – becoming the first Chinese citizen to do so – sparked widespread rejoicing. The best international cultural events of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:12Z The Nobel confers so much, in terms of money and recognition, that it seems like a waste when they give it to somebody who already has loads of both. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The tale of a 17-year old Pakistani schoolgirl sharing the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of girls’ education would bring a tear to anyone’s eye. Why Malala's Story Sounds Like Another Story You Already Know 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The book, published by Jewish Lights Publishing in the United States, starts with a prologue by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, 86, who survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps. Holocaust survivors' descendants help keep memory alive in new book 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z In that moment, the mission of the Nobel transcended any of its individual recipients. A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z He established the Templeton Prize to promote this exploration, partly, the film says, because the Nobel Prizes ignore it. Television Review: John M. Templeton, Remembered by Relatives, on Bloomberg TV 2013-12-25T18:07:21Z Critic Adam Kirsch thundered: "America should respond not by imploring the committee for a fairer hearing but by seceding, once and for all, from the sham that the Nobel Prize for Literature has become." The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z What do you think of the Nobel committee's choice? Llosa: a worthy Nobel winner? 2010-10-07T11:39:00Z The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was not among the awards originally stipulated in Nobel’s will. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “When I first received this Nobel Prize for Literature, I got to wondering how my songs related to literature. I wanted to reflect on it and see where the connection was,” he begins. The Rambling Glory of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Speech 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z He's got to get a call from the Nobel people sometime soon; he's one of the best around. Craig Taylor: my desktop 2013-06-12T07:00:00Z The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z I had always assumed the origins of the AGA stove were uniquely British, but this stalwart appliance was actually created about a century ago by blind Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén, a Nobel Laureate. The legendary allure of Britain's AGA stove 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z In 2016, when Bob Dylan became the first singer-songwriter to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Guardian asked six female artists to talk about his work. Just Like a Woman: Female Artists Cover Bob Dylan 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Seven square metres is about seventy-five square feet; this was where the future Nobel laureate spent his childhood. The Shattering Double Vision of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Would he appear in public for the Nobel? Will Don DeLillo win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Oz, who died on Friday at the age of 79, was Israel’s most significant cultural ambassador for nearly 50 years, perennially mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Amos Oz, a Writer Who Loved the Dream of Israel and Charted Its Imperfect Reality 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z I felt an obligation to counter a public imbalance in the way in which he was being perceived: the Nobel prize winner, the literary genius. Greg Bellow: My father, Saul 2013-04-27T08:01:15Z Some hope Chinese literature may break through to a wider international readership after Mo's Nobel prize last year, but Yan said its prospects depended on the quality of the work rather than a short-term boost. Chinese writers avoiding key issues amid censorship fears, says author 2013-02-06T13:11:00Z After arriving in Stockholm to receive her Nobel, reporters at the airport asked Szymborska about the first poem she ever wrote. Poland's 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T20:32:13Z And the Nobel, in recognizing Dylan’s work as literature, acknowledges that artists create works of popular culture with just as much care, control, courage and genius as Ernest Hemingway did sitting down at a typewriter. Why Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to the book world 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z He won virtually every prize short of the Nobel and wrote such classics as "American Pastoral" and "Portnoy's Complaint." Philip Roth says he's done writing 2012-11-09T22:05:12Z Cosmologists and astronomers win Nobel Prizes; the Hubble Space Telescope continues to reveal habitable, “Earth-size” planets; and The New York Times reports on shady government programs investigating “aerospace threats.” Did Storming Area 51 Teach Us Anything? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z This year’s Nobel announcements continue with the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and the economics award on Monday. Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus Wins Nobel Prize for Literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Naipaul, who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2001, caused controversy that same year by his remarks about Islam at a London reading from his book, Half a Life. VS Naipaul withdraws from Turkish event after row over Islam comments 2010-11-24T15:18:00Z The Nobel has felt a little lost in comparison. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z A 17 year-old girl became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. This May Have Been the Best Year for Women Since the Dawn of Time 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The winner of 2021 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Taylor, a historian, along with some of the nine Nobel prizewinners, past or present, in the college. Romantic contrarian 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z And once again, the Nobel academy did not give its literature prize to an American. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z Last year, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature. U. S.-based scientists earn Nobel Prize for work on gravitational waves 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z “The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974,” he said in his Nobel Speech, “were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless.” An Appraisal: Capturing Rhythms of Nature in Poems 2013-08-30T23:11:07Z “When he won the Nobel, I was ecstatic. It’s an added thrill that I follow directly in his footsteps.” After the Bob Dylan Nobel prize backlash, will honoring Kazuo Ishiguro ‘make the world happy’? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z When Marie Curie won her second Nobel Prize, this affair was still fresh, and the Nobel people suggested that it might be best if she skipped the ceremony. Books of The Times: Inventing a Graphic Treatment for the Curies 2010-12-21T17:05:40Z Lessing, who authored more than 50 works fiction, nonfiction and poetry ranging in subject, won the Nobel prize in 2007 and became the eldest recipient at age 88. Nobel Prize-Winning Author Doris Lessing Dead at 94 2013-11-17T15:38:38Z The committee in charge of awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature likes to crown its laureates with pronouncements that can seem as incomprehensible as its choice of winner often does. Patrick Modiano’s Postwar 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Glück, a Nobel laureate, is a formidable, essential and accessible poet. In Louise Glück’s New Book, Infant Twins Offer Contrary Worldviews 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Thirty-four years later, Mr. Coetzee himself received the Nobel Prize for literature. ArtsBeat Blog: University of Texas Acquires Coetzee's Papers 2011-10-10T16:38:07Z His father is a primary-care physician in private practice in Eugene, and was a recipient in 2017 of the Nobel Peace Laureate Project’s “Inspirer of Peace” award for his dedication to peaceful community education. Anna Grummon, Hunt Allcott 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Five years working under him was equivalent to getting a master's degree, a PhD and a Nobel Prize. NY Giants co-owner Steve Tisch on creating a Super Bowl life 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Last week, after news broke that Trump had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, his reelection campaign disseminated an image of the president with a large gold cartoon trophy pasted shoddily between his hands. The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Two older works that have been on the list before also appear: Sherman Alexie’s autobiographical novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s debut novel “The Bluest Eye.” Library study finds ‘challenged’ books soared in 2021 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Belarusan authorities will try to get advantage of and use the Nobel award to their benefits, but the writer will not give them an opportunity to use herself for such purposes. Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z I learned about her only because of the Nobel Prize. Jordan Ellenberg Wouldn’t Have Given the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Dr. Kahneman was awarded the Nobel in economic science, though he’s a psychologist. Review: Michael Lewis on Two Well Matched (but Finally Mismatched) Men 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z But neither proves smart enough for her: She prefers Nobel prize winners. 8 Actors Who Got Their Start on 'Friends' 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Then Bob Dylan was announced as the Nobel Laureate in Literature, and I felt my heart pounding. Patti Smith on Singing at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z That’s not always true of Nobel laureates, popularity with American readers not being one of the Swedish Academy’s criteria. Kazuo Ishiguro is a rarity and now a Nobel Laureate 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Landau worked with pioneering quantum physicists such as Niels Bohr, had a hand in the Soviet atomic weapons programme, and won a Nobel prize in 1962. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z I’m definitely a Korean author, but I’m not the author that can win a Nobel Prize and deliver on that kind of happiness.” Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In this year’s “Morbius,” the title character is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist on a search for a cure for his chronic illness. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z What was ridiculous was the idea of a Nobel laureate singing “Stardust” in a voice that sounds like a shaken bucket of rocks. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z “Marie Curie, for instance, subjected to fashion commentary? Or Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison appraised for her hairstyle? In receiving the Pritzker, Hadid joins those noble ranks and deserves better. Architecture deserves better.” Female Architects on the Significance of Zaha Hadid 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971 in recognition of works such as "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" and the epic "Canto General." Chile nixes renaming int'l airport for poet Neruda 2010-04-09T20:30:00Z WARSAW, Feb 1 - Polish Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, once described as the "Mozart of Poetry," died on Wednesday, after suffering from lung cancer. Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T23:09:00Z Still, however glad she was to see the Nobel go to Modiano, Savigneau wrote that she was “indignant, as ever, to see them forget Roth.” Patrick Modiano’s Postwar 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z And one in a hundred with the IQs and training and intellectual accomplishment put out by the Nobel prize winners are actually predicted to be a potential winner. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Philip Roth died before he could win a Nobel Prize. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Arcane rules meant that they could not be replaced and in May the committee said it would not hand out the Nobel Prize for Literature this year as it needed time to restore public trust. Man at center of Nobel literature scandal charged with rape 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z She won the Nobel Peace Prize last year for her efforts--at 17, the youngest person ever to receive an Oslo nod. Oscar winner's Malala Yousafzai documentary headed to theaters 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z The Hay Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, bringing Nobel Prize-winning writers, philosophers, politicians and musicians to Hay-on-Wye to showcase their work and exchange ideas with an audience from all over Britain and beyond. Hay book fest marks 25th at "Woodstock of the mind" 2012-05-24T15:07:35Z |
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