Acclaimed American poet Louise Glück has been deservedly awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for her ‘unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’.

SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Yonhap) -- Han Kang, the first Korean winner of the Nobel Prize in literature ... of three women. The novel won her the Prix Medicis award for foreign literature, one of the ...

The first Asian female winner, Han is also the first woman ... a total of 121 authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, including Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre, former British ...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s recent win of the 2025 Holberg Prize has once again highlighted the contributions of women in ...

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

One of his first ... the Prize went to him in 1907 when he was fort-two years old, so far the youngest writer ever to have been honored. The average age of Nobel Prize Winners in Literature ...

SEOUL--South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize ... first writer to win the preeminent award in world literature.

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...