By Daisuke Kikuchi The 156th Akutagawa Prize was awarded to 50-year-old author Sumito Yamashita for his book “Shinsekai (New World),”...
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By Liu Zhihua China's first Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine, Tu Youyou, celebrated her 86th birthday by signing...
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang During this time of year, as people visit family, travel, or have a little time off...
Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in 1913 and the only Indian in the literature category...
Eminent writer Ruskin Bond said the decision to award the Nobel Prize for Literature to singer-poet Bob Dylan was “not...
Bob Dylan has been nominated for the literature Nobel for years, but no one had seriously expected the Swedish Academy...
The Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Sympathizer has won the Dayton literary peace prize, a unique...
After surviving an extremist attack in his own country and being forced into exile in Norway, the Bangladeshi publisher and...
It’s that time of the year again – we will know who wins the Nobel Prize of Literature on 13...
Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor of History at the Ashoka University, has been awarded the 2016 John F. Richards Prize for her...
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