More than 150 writers and cultural figures have signed an open letter in support of Sally Rooney, including Nobel laureates Anne Carson and Annie Ernaux.
EntertainmentAnne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Crazy, they’re all crazy!” she said in an initial comment to Icelandic television channel RÚV.
TV & filmMost people expect the Nobel Prize in Literature to go to a woman - but who? Chinese author Can Xue and Canadian author Anne Carson are the favorites among those betting on this year’s laureate.
EntertainmentFrom Astrid Lindgren's classics to contemporary authors such as Nora Khalil and Ann-Helén Laestadius. Now, the National Agency for Education and the Arts Council are presenting the reading lists with 250 works of fiction that have been developed to support teachers.
EntertainmentRussia's invasion made Ukrainian Sofia Andruchovytj want to piece together her homeland's fragmented history. In the epic "Amadoka", she exposes some of Ukraine's darkest taboos and traumas.
EntertainmentMore than 1,000 literarily active individuals, including international authors such as Sally Rooney, and Nobel laureates like Abdulrazak Gurnah and Annie Ernaux, are participating in a boycott against Israeli cultural institutions, reports the newspaper Haaretz.
EntertainmentHan 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. Often the prize goes to older authors, which is entirely natural. But this year, we have chosen to reward an author who is in the middle of her life's work, says Academy member Ellen Mattson.
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