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Nobel Literature Buzz Tips Swiss Postmodernist, Australians For Prize

Swiss postmodernist novelist Christian Kracht and Australia's Gerald Murnane and Alexis Wright are among the favourites for the Nobel literature prize, experts told AFP ahead of the Swedish Academy's much-anticipated announcement on Thursday.

International Business Times · Oct 7, 2025

Han Kang: innovative South Korean author wins the 2024 Nobel prize for literature

It’s often the case that when poets write novels, they deliver arrestingly vivid and nimble prose. Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007) is a case in point, and it is no doubt the work that was most influential in the Swedish Academy’s decision to award her the Nobel prize in literature…

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2024

Upcoming Nobel prizes offer glimmer of hope as global crises mount

Next week's Nobel Prize announcements will crown achievements that made the world a better place, a glimmer of optimism amid a spiralling Middle East conflict, war in Ukraine, famine in Sudan and a collapsing climate.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 3, 2024

French author Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Nobel Prize organisers said they hadn’t been able to reach French author to tell her the good news yet

The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2022

Nobel panel to announce winner of literature prize

The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm

The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2022

You're a winner: Listening in on 'the call' for Nobel Prize

Usually the call telling scientists that they won a Nobel Prize is received in private by the special few

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2022

Swedish gene specialist gets Nobel season started with medicine prize

Swedish genetic historian Svante Paabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered Denisova, a previously unknown precursor of Homo sapiens, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize, the first of this year's awards from the Swedish Academy.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 3, 2022

Nobel Prizes, election outcomes and sports championships – prediction markets try to foresee the future

Who will win Nobel Prizes in 2022? Wikipedia posits a handful of contenders for Physiology or Medicine, about 20 different possible winners for the Peace Prize and several dozen potential winners of the Literature Prize. But since the Swedish Academy never announces nominees in advance, there are few insights indicating…

The Conversation · Sep 28, 2022

Interview: Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Nobel laureate

France has an increasing appetite for the work of Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose novels about the brutal impacts of colonialism in Africa, life in exile and endemic racism are a collision of old and new worlds. The Tanzanian-born writer and academic drew on his own experiences as a boy…

Radio France Internationale · Jun 26, 2022