Jean-Claude Arnault, the French photographer at the centre of the sexual assault allegations which have led to the postponement of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has been charged with rape. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize in Literature may not be awarded in 2019 unless trust is restored in the Swedish Academy that administers the prize, the Nobel Foundation’s executive director Lars Heikensten has said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Swedish Academy which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature has confirmed that it plans to postpone this year's award following the sexual assault scandal which has rocked the organisation and led to nearly half the 18-strong Academy resigning their posts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Swedish Academy says the Nobel Prize in literature will not be awarded this year following sex-abuse allegations and other issues within its ranks that have tarnished the body's reputation. The academy said Friday the 2018 prize will be given in 2019. The decision was made at a weekly meeting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following a ballooning sexual harassment scandal that has engulfed the Swedish Academy for weeks, the Academy has pushed off awarding the 2018 prize until next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels of "great emotional force". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Princeton University Press has extended “hearty congratulations” to its author Kip S Thorne, who has been named one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bob Dylan will formally accept the Nobel Prize for Literature this weekend, following months of speculation over whether this would happen. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The UK’s answer to the Nobel Prize for Literature – the £40,000 David Cohen Prize - is now being managed by New Writing North. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bob Dylan has said that it is “truly beyond words” to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, is on the shortlist for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Julia Kingsford argues that awarding Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize for Literature is "retrograde". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Songwriter and lyricist Bob Dylan was named the 109th laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 13, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rounding up all 'PW' coverage of books penned by the 2016 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Internet proved predictably opinionated upon learning that Bob Dylan had been chosen as the 2016 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Underground publisher says it is risking regulations to translate Svetlana Alexievich’s novels into her home languageBefore a group of Belarusian artists and intellectuals chose it as their headquarters, Minsk drinkers would line up outside the run-down building for cheap vodka on tap. These... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. Her first novel, "The Unwomanly Face of the War," published in 1985 and about the untold stories of women who had fought against Nazi Germany. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, 67, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The chair of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, said her polyphonic writings were "a monument to suffering and courage in our time." Alexievich is recognised for her work chronicalling the lives and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The University of East Anglia is publishing archived private correspondence from novelists such as Doris Lessing, JD Salinger and WG Sebald to inspire today’s students of creative writing“Don’t,” a young Doris Lessing is advised as she tries to find a publisher for her first novel, The Grass is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
British poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton has been awarded the 2015 PEN Pinter Prize. The annual prize was established in 2009 by English PEN in memory of playwright Harold Pinter to recognise to a British writer of outstanding literary merit, who, in the words of Pinter’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]