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Nobel Prize Winners 2023: The winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine & Physiology 2023 is announced by the Swedish Academy. 

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Interested in reading a book by 2022 literature laureate Annie Ernaux but don’t know where to start? We asked three members of the literature committee at the Swedish Academy – who decide on the year’s Nobel Prize in Literature – to give us their recommendations. Ellen Mattson on Happening (L’Événement) I would happily recommend all […]

Rabindranath Tagore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, was the first Indian, and non-European, to get it

The Swedish Academy with 18 members makes the final decision after a smaller group, the Nobel Committee for Literature, sends recommendations from among the nominations. Theoretically, anyone can be nominated, said Ellen Mattson, member of both.

We spoke to Ellen Mattson, who helps to decide the Nobel Prize in Literature, about how the prize process works. Discover more by reading our interview with her below. Can you tell us who you are? My name is Ellen Mattson. I’m a writer. A novelist. I’m a member of the Swedish Academy and also […]

Some £19,000 in awards money has been shared among the 2022 winners of the translation honors administered by the Society of Authors.

Zanzibari novelist becomes first black African writer in 35 years to win prestigious award

Ernaux, who writes novels about daily life in France, is one of her country’s most acclaimed authors. Could she win the world’s most prestigious literary prize on Thursday?