Tag: Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature: The Sound of Jon Fosse’s Theater – Culture
Jon Fosse was once one of the most performed playwrights in Europe. His pieces are sad, hopeless, but not tearful. About an encounter in Bergen in 2014. Unforgettable when Jon…
Norwegian Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature – Culture
This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature goes to the Norwegian author and playwright Jon Fosse. He will be honored for his “innovative plays and prose that give voice to the…
Annie Ernaux: “The Empty Closets”: Debut of the Nobel Prize winner for literature – Culture
Even before Annie Ernaux received the Nobel Prize for Literature last fall, her German publisher had published translations of her extensive work in succession. A new translation has been published…
Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Norwegian Jon Fosse – Culture
This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature goes to the Norwegian author and playwright Jon Fosse. He will be honored for his “innovative plays and prose that give voice to the…
LMU: Workshop on the relationship between the Nobel Prize in Literature and PEN. – Munich
A world of literature without the Nobel Prize and PEN International is hard to imagine. From Thursday to Friday, June 29th to 30th, a workshop at the LMU Munich will…
House of Literature: evening discussion and reading on Annie Ernaux. – Munich
She describes herself as an “ethnologist of herself”. For many, Annie Ernaux revolutionized autofictional storytelling, last year she received the Nobel Prize in Literature. On Monday, June 12, the Literaturhaus…
On the death of Kenzaburō Ōe: How strange, how beautiful – culture
From Gustav Seibt The Japanese narrator Kenzaburō Ōe has occasionally been compared to Günter Grass to describe his place in his country’s literature. And there are indeed some analogies that…
Pablo Neruda: His Mysterious Death – Culture
New investigations confirm the suspicion that the Nobel Prize winner may have been poisoned, but prove nothing. To this day, the mysterious circumstances of Pablo Neruda, the Chilean Nobel Prize…
Annie Ernaux: ‘It felt like being a Nobel Prize winner was illegitimate’ – Kultur
Ever since Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize, she has stopped writing. A visit to her home, to a woman who has a lot to say and doesn’t want…
Alexievich, Tokarczuk, Ernaux: Testard and his flair for books – politics
It all started in a room in a shared flat in London, with a loan from my stepfather. And now? Jacques Testard has already won his third Nobel Prize with…