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Several of the author’s books, including ‘Satantango’ and ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’, have been adapted into feature films

With 338 nominees, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize shortlist includes Trump, Musk, and others in a fiercely debated lineup.

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Mario Vargo Llosa. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers, and Erwan Rome’s “Music from Erwan”. All that, and the new quiz and bonus questions too, so click the “Play” button…

In 2024, Gisele Pelicot waived the right to anonymity to speak out on behalf of other victims of sexual assault.

INTERVIEW: Exclusive: Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning group representing survivors of the US atomic bomb attacks in 1945, tells Adam Withnall in Tokyo that civilisation as we know it is in imminent danger as Russia ramps up its sabre-rattling against the West over the invasion of…

After three days of Nobel prizes honoring work in the sciences, the literature award is being announced by the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy

I am serving my ninth and final year in the Nobel Committee for Physics, which is an absolutely fascinating job – albeit hard. The best bit is hearing the reactions of the shocked laureates when they receive some of the biggest news of their lives over the phone.

Philippine investigative journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa warns how disinformation campaigns are eroding democracy at home — and globally.