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"Touches Life and Death in a Unique Way"

An accessible authorship, which simultaneously explores serious and major issues in a new way. This is how this year's Nobel Prize winner in literature Han Kang is described.

"Touches Life and Death in a Unique Way"

Han Kang receives the Nobel Prize: "In the midst of her life's work"

Han Kang is awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the first South Korean author to be awarded the prize by the Swedish Academy – and one of the youngest at 53 years old.

Han Kang receives the Nobel Prize: "In the midst of her life's work"

Nobel Speculations: Russian Considered "Impossible"

Chinese Can Xue, Australian Gerald Murnane, or perhaps Jamaica Kincaid, born and raised in Antigua? Today at 1 pm, this year's Nobel laureate in literature will be announced. .

Nobel Speculations: Russian Considered "Impossible"

Nobel Prize Facts Package 2024

Alfred Nobel (born 1833 in Stockholm, died 1896 in San Remo, Italy) is Sweden's most famous inventor and industrial leader. His most important invention was dynamite, which he patented in 1867.

Nobel Prize Facts Package 2024

Stridsberg writes with a "softer pen"

A family darkness depicted with a more frivolous language. Sara Stridsberg's new novel differs from the previous ones and yet not.

Stridsberg writes with a "softer pen"

She writes a book about the cultural profile's rape

"The Outsider's Class". This is the title of a new novel by philosopher Anna-Karin Selberg.

A Swedish Cultural Canon - This is How it Happened

The question of a Swedish cultural canon has been driven by the Christian Democrats and the Sweden Democrats, and in the Tidö Agreement, the government and the Sweden Democrats decided that expert groups within different areas should develop one. .

A Swedish Cultural Canon - This is How it Happened

The Swedish Academy awards Karolina Ramqvist

The Swedish Academy has awarded author Karolina Ramqvist the 2024 Signe Ekblad-Eldh Prize. The prize money is 140,000 kronor.

The Swedish Academy awards Karolina Ramqvist