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France: Soyinka worried about consequences of financial crisis on African literature 18 Nov 2009 10:19 GMT
... Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, 1996 Nobel prize winner for Literature, on Tuesday expressed grave concern about the consequences of the international financial crisis on ...
Who walks in L.A.? Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. 22 Nov 2009 19:01 GMT
... It was Orhan Pamuk's first L.A. visit. The Turkish native, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, has taught in New York without making it here -- until he ...
Prize Winner Perversity 15 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
... too many recipients of a certain international prize for achievement in literature, economics, or peace? If the past truly ... sarcastic style: “And this they call a Nobel Prize winner.” The reason for this Swiftian ...
Nobel-winning author Pamuk to discuss new book 16 Nov 2009 00:31 GMT
... end of the 20th century,” says Pamuk, a Turkish writer who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Pamuk, 57, appears in Houston tonight to discuss and read from his new book, ...
Book reviews: He Knew He Was Right | Curiosities Of Literature | Nadirs 21 Nov 2009 00:54 GMT
... too, and very clearly explained. CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE BY JOHN SUTHERLAND (Arrow, £7.99) I FULLY ... £9.99) HERTA Müller has just won the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book of stories might ...

Arts, Briefly: More English Translations for Nobel Winner 18 Nov 2009 05:55 GMT
... clamoring for more work from this year's Nobel laureate in literature will be able to get their hands ... a finalist for the 2009 German Book Prize, and “The Fox Was Always a Hunter” ...
Irish poets in India for literature & cultural fest 18 Nov 2009 05:40 GMT
... from W. B. Yeats and Rabin-dranath Tagore to today’s finest writers and critics, including Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The first event, which takes place in Kolkata on Wednesday, has been ...
Francisco Ayala, novelist and literary scholar 24 Nov 2009 01:05 GMT
... most distinguished intellectuals, Ayala was routinely mentioned as a con ADVERTISEMENT tender for the Nobel Prize in literature. Besides being a novelist, he was a poet, critic, essayist, lawyer and academic sociologist. ...
Q & A | Benjamin Moser: On Clarice Lispector 15 Nov 2009 07:06 GMT
... Pamuk, more happily, is in love with literature. ``I am not Kemal,'' insists the 2006 Nobel laureate, who appears Friday at Miami Book ... Academy's seeming interest in awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to relatively little-known writers, do ...
100 Best Films of the Decade 18 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... invading private life." The full list at: Nobel Prize Winner John Coetzee gave a fascination speech ... her yet". Interview itish Academy’s first ever Literature Week Leading writers, academics and practitioners came ...

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Camus' children torn over Pantheon transfer bid 23 Nov 2009 17:20 GMT
... are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern ... He won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. On Jan. 4, 1960, he was killed ...
Camus children torn over possible transfer of author to Pantheon in Paris 23 Nov 2009 17:53 GMT
... are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern ... He won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. On Jan. 4, 1960, he was killed ...
Haruki Murakami's Powerful Metaphors 23 Nov 2009 10:34 GMT
... be written about is through metaphors,” he said. The 60-year-old novelist, a regular in Nobel literature prize predictions, has been writing in Japanese for three decades. His novels, short stories and ...
Japan's Murakami says metaphor more real after 9/11 23 Nov 2009 19:23 GMT
... be written about is through metaphors," he said. The 60-year-old novelist, a regular in Nobel literature prize predictions, has been writing in Japanese for three decades. His novels, short stories and ...
In a time of cholera 24 Nov 2009 00:44 GMT
... The Time Of Cholera. At the time, the Colombian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature wrote it, cholera was indeed a thing of the past and a distant memory, ...
Camus' children torn over Pantheon transfer bid 23 Nov 2009 17:26 GMT
... are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern ... was partially deaf and completely illiterate. for literature. On Jan. 4, 1960, he was killed ...
USA Today: "Berlin Wall's Lessons For Today" 23 Nov 2009 20:22 GMT
... nations with the domestic news and information that their governments denied them. This year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, novelist Herta Mueller, was asked recently whether she listened to Radio Free Europe while ...
Cinematic 'Intruder' distills Faulkner 22 Nov 2009 11:50 GMT
... • Derived from a novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author; • Made within a year of ... Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature a year after "Intruder" was a first-run ...
Coraline author Neil Gaiman received 'hate mail' for liking Rudyard Kipling 18 Nov 2009 19:32 GMT
... India", to which he responded: "It wasn't, that's the point." "He certainly deserved his Nobel Prize for Literature." , a collection of short stories about an orphaned boy. In the place of ...
Have We Forgotten God? 23 Nov 2009 19:44 GMT
... the Communist government. His books have become classics:� In 1970, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1983, Solzhenitsyn won the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. In his London ...

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Counterattack as author's memoirs speak ill of Dame Iris 17 Nov 2009 22:12 GMT
... his wife in the autobiography of the Nobel Prize-winning author, Elias Canetti, due to be published ... novelist who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1981, arrived in Britain in 1939 ...
A tale of the times: BCC Theatre to present 'Grapes of Wrath' 19 Nov 2009 18:56 GMT
... stage version of John Steinbeck's classic 1939 novel that won the writer a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize for Literature. As director, Brenner sees an opportunity to bring together actors and musicians to create ...
BY SEAN McCARTHY 19 Nov 2009 19:39 GMT
... stage version of John Steinbeck's classic 1939 novel that won the writer a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize for Literature. As director, Brenner sees an opportunity to bring together actors and musicians to create ...
Orhan Pamuk, the French parliament and the Armenian massacres (Oct 2006) 20 Nov 2009 03:11 GMT
... has consumed the country since Orhan Pamuk became the first Turk to win the Nobel prize for literature (or indeed any Nobel).… now and receive a 14-day premium pass When you register ...
Manuscript Reveal Grudge between Famous Chinese Writers 20 Nov 2009 18:31 GMT
... It is the manuscript of Chinese bilingual writer Lin Yutang who's nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times in the 1970s. The diary is on a preview exhibition of the ...