OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The former opposition presidential candidate was lauded for being a “key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided — an opposition that found common ground...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror.” The Nobel judges said...
The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) will announce the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees—the region’s most prestigious honor celebrating transformative leadership and service—on August 31 through a global broadcast. The announcement coincides with the 118th birth anniversary of President...
South Korea is celebrating the win of author Han Kang, the first Korean writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize announced on Oct. 10 that the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 is awarded to Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas...
On Oct. 5, 2023, the Swedish Academy awarded the Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the award-giving body said. Fosse, a 64-year-old, was born on the west coast of Norway. His work...
Maria Ressa's in-person acceptance of her Nobel Peace Prize has reminded Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin of one of his great frustrations in life. DFA Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin (Photo from Teddy Boy Locsin's Facebook) No, it's not to win the coveted award himself;...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid My piece last week focusing on our three women heroes, Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz, Maria Ressa, the first Filipino to win the Nobel Prize, and Vice President Leni Robredo, 1Sambayan choice as its candidate for the May, 2022 presidential election,...
PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose C. De Venecia Jr. We Filipinos should take pride that a fellow Filipino now shares the Nobel Prize stage with some of the world’s great men and women, like Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway,...
And that’s how American poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature WHAT LUCK Louise Glück's refractions depict the counterpoint between fact and fable It is my mother’s voice you hear or is it only the sound the trees make when the air passes through them because what sound...
American poet Louise Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” according to the Swedish Academy. Mats Malm , permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announced Glück’s Nobel in...
