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  Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her 'intense poetic prose'

  World | October 10, 2024 18:05 IST

  Han Kang is a distinguished author in South Korea who has previously won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for "The Vegetarian". She comes from a literary background as her father was also a reputed novelist and began her career in 1993 with a short story collection.

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  Nobel Prize 2020: American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel literature prize

  World | October 08, 2020 17:09 IST

  The Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to American poet Louise Glück on Thursday “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

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  First female head of Nobel’s literature award body has died

  World | October 13, 2019 20:09 IST

  Danius was elected to a lifetime position on the Swedish Academy’s board in 2013 and because the body’s first female permanent secretary in 2015. She resigned the position in 2018.

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  Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018, 2019 announced

  World | October 10, 2019 17:15 IST

  Breaking: The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke.

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  'No Nobel Prize in Literature award this year following sex-abuse charges'

  World | May 04, 2018 17:23 IST

  The Swedish Academy says the Nobel Prize in literature will be not awarded this year following sex-abuse allegations and other issues within its ranks that have tarnished the body's reputation.

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  Kazuo Ishiguro named Nobel Prize winner in Literature: Interesting facts about the author

  Books & Culture | October 05, 2017 19:05 IST

  Kazuo Ishiguro won the Booker Prize in 1989 for The Remains of the Day.

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  5 gripping short stories by Ruskin Bond you can enjoy reading with a cup of tea

  Books & Culture | June 12, 2018 11:16 IST

  On his 83rd birthday, let’s enjoy some of his best stories with a cuppa tea. Let’s feed our soul with the morsels of fine literature.

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  Lifetime Achievement Award for Ruskin Bond at Times Lit Fest

  World | November 26, 2016 16:15 IST

  Sighting his outstanding contribution in the field of literature, noted author Ruskin Bond was today presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Times Lit Fest. Bond, moments after receiving the award, reminded his young readers

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  Legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan gets 2016 Nobel in Literature

  World | October 13, 2016 17:45 IST

  In a development that should bring cheer to music fans of American singer-songwriter, artist and writer Bob Dylan has been declared the recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic

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  Mother outperforms son in class 12th exam in Assam

  India | June 02, 2015 21:59 IST

  37 year-old mother outperforms 18-year-old son in Class 12th ExamNew Delhi: In a rare competition between a mother and her son, the 37-year-old Nayanmoni Bezbaruah has outshined her son in the higher secondary school examination.She

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  Jaya Bachchan applaudes filmmakers' choice to adapt published works

  Bollywood | January 26, 2015 20:23 IST

  Kolkata: Veteran actress Jaya Bachchan said it's a "wonderful" trend in Indian cinema that filmmakers are going for subjects based on published literature and said this augurs well for women in cinema."I think a new

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  Jaipur Litfest: Engaging, mind-stimulating conversations on table

  Lifestyle | January 21, 2015 11:59 IST

  Jaipur: Every year, the annual literary pilgrimage Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) offers a fine balance among different writing genres that peacefully co-exist and give the audience an opportunity to deliberate on issues that usually don't

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  India most 'literate' country in world: Hanif Kureishi

  Lifestyle | January 18, 2015 14:06 IST

  Kolkata: Award-winning British playwright and author Hanif Kureishi Saturday praised Indians for their continued interest in literature and said the nation is the "most literate" country in the world.Kureishi, who is of Pakistani descent, is

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  Pranab Mukherjee condoles Ananthamurthy's death

  India | August 23, 2014 11:00 IST

  New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday condoled the death of writer UR Ananthamurthy, saying India will remember his invaluable contribution to literature.In a statement, the president said: "Nation will always remember Ananthamurthy's invaluable contribution

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  Tata Literature Live to honour Khushwant Singh

  India | November 14, 2013 7:46 IST

  Mumbai: The Tata Literature Live will honour the grand old man of Indian writing, Kushwant Singh today with a lifetime achievement award.    Announcing the Mumbai LitFest 2013 at the National Centre for Performing Arts, Tata

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  Editors Guild flays Tewari's suggestion for issuing licence to journalists

  India | August 22, 2013 8:27 IST

  New Delhi: Editors Guild of India has termed Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari's suggestion of licensing journalists as an "undemocratic" practice and said it is a tool of totalitarian states to control the media."The

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  Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel to be out in September

  India | July 09, 2013 17:18 IST

  New Delhi, July 9: Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel "The Lowland", a story of fate and will, exile and return, of the price of idealism and of a love that can last long

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  Hindi Writer Amarkant Presented Jnanpith Award

  India | March 14, 2012 14:53 IST

  Allahabad, Mar 14: Noted Hindi litterateur Amarkant today received the prestigious Jnanpith Award at a glittering function here.The 87-year-old writer was presented with the award by renowned critic Namvar Singh at a function organised at

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  Vijaydan Detha, Satchidanandan Among Nobel Prize Aspirants

  India | October 04, 2011 18:17 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 4: Seasoned Malayalam poet K Satchidanandan, who has been writing for over 40 years, says there is a wealth of writing in Indian languages that has not yet been discovered outside the

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  Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize

  World | October 07, 2010 20:19 IST

  Stockholm, Oct 7: Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature today.  The Swedish