(From Asymptote Journal. Link to the complete article given below) If you love reading fiction by writers from […]
Nobel Prize
By Liu Zhihua China’s first Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine, Tu Youyou, celebrated her 86th birthday […]
Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in 1913 and the only Indian in the […]
There is one critic of Japanese literature that towers above the rest: professor John Nathan, erstwhile associate of Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe and Kobo Abe. But he’s not only a respected critic, Nathan’s extraordinary career has seen him in the roles of film director, scriptwriter, novelist and memoirist, and his translations of Oe’s novels did much to assist that writer on his path to receiving the Nobel Prize in 1994.
The Chinese author, Mo Yan, will be speaking at a conference on May 23 at San Marcos in Lima.
“The Republic of Wine” author Mo Yan, will be paying a visit to San Marcos University of Lima, Peru this Saturday May 23.
Winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature, the acclaimed Chinese writer will be participating in a conference of literature entitled, “Meeting of San Marcos with the writers of the Popular Republic of China.” The event will be held in the Auditorium José Antonio Russo Delgado of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Leaking names of writers shortlisted for the Nobel literature prize may lead to their disqualification from the prestigious […]
Four Japanese writers including novelists Junichiro Tanizaki and Yukio Mishima were nominees for the 1964 Nobel Prize in literature, according to documents released by the Swedish Academy.
The documents, made available at Kyodo News’ request after a customary 50-year period of secrecy, also showed that Tanizaki made it as far as the six-candidate shortlist for the prize that year.
A special event commemorating the contributions of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore to literature, music and art was held in Britain’s Parliament complex here.
India’s high commissioner to the UK, Ranjan Mathai, addressed the gathering at the House of Commons yesterday.
The 73-year-old told the BBC’s Helier Cheung, in a rare interview, that he felt as though he had […]
British author Doris Lessing, whose powerful feminist and anti-colonial writing won her the Nobel Literature Prize, died on […]
