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October 5, 2023
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With Jon Fosse’s Win, the Nobel Prize in Literature Is So Back
The once wild-and-woolly literary award has entered its steady and serious era.
October 6, 2022
Alex Shephard
Annie Ernaux Is a Perfect Nobel Laureate
Finally, the Swedish Academy got it right.
October 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Did Abdulrazak Gurnah Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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.
October 5, 2021
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
October 4, 2021
Alex Shephard
Nobel Committee Chair Anders Olsson on the “Renovation” of the Prize for Literature
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.”
October 6, 2020
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
October 10, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Just Trolling Now
In giving the award to Peter Handke, an apologist for Serbian war crimes, the Swedish Academy may have finally shown its true colors.
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