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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...

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...