The Swedish Academy's decision to award Korean novelist Han Kang is a minor victory in a world of consolidation.

The once wild-and-woolly literary award has entered its steady and serious era.

People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.

If Haruki Murakami wins, I will eat one of his fancy T-shirts.

2021’s Nobel laureate is a little-known novelist and literary critic who was born in Zanzibar and has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s.

Years after scandal rocked the committee, there’s a new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. But “literary merit,” Olsson insists, remains “the absolute and only criterion.”

Why does “Klara and the Sun” serve up its big questions so explicitly?

Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.

The only thing we know for sure is that the Swedish Academy won’t have Philip Roth to kick around anymore.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel is a quieter dystopia than the "Blade Runner" movies, but its stakes are just as lethal.

The prize has undergone a distinct change in recent years, opting for best-selling writers and rock stars.

The author has now won the Nobel Prize. But critics are still struggling to understand him.