Yonsei University celebrated its 140th anniversary by announcing plans to support student research and foster future Nobel ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. A full-scale war between India and Pakistan may have been averted ...

Angello Alcázar remembers the year that the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa spent in Cambridge On April 13th, legions of readers ...

(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) FILE - Peru's Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa rearranges his hat during ceremonies for his conferment of the degree of Doctor of Literature ...

This triumph of Han Kang is not only her individual triumph but the triumph of literature itself, of the human soul itself, ...

Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, 64, is the recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Often compared to Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) and Harold Pinter (1930-2008) by the European and ...

Tom Neuwirth aka Conchita Wurst, the drag queen who won the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, will star opposite Isabelle Huppert ...

In 1913, he made history as the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Revered as the Bard of Bengal, Tagore also penned the national anthems of India, Bangladesh ...

Kang’s effortless storytelling is a victory for highlighting the female oppression in South Korea and is well-deserving of its Nobel Prize in literature.

The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...

Religion and culture are wedded together, even when the culture seems to be moving away from traditional religious worldviews ...