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[55th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Poetry Grand Prize winner Julie Sohn
Julie Sohn is a newcomer in translation, currently living in Seoul with her husband and two sons. Born and raised in Chicago, ...
The Daily Northwestern2d
Han Kang is first South Korean writer to win 2024 Nobel Prize in literature with ‘The Vegetarian’
Written by South Korean author Han Kang and translated by British writer Deborah Smith, “The Vegetarian” masterfully explores ...
Princeton University2d
Africa World Initiative hosts Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation and in the classroom
He received the Nobel Prize in literature in 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate ... the director of AWI and the ...
Worldcrunch on MSN6d
Radioactive Nobel To A New York Museum — On This Day In History November 7
What happened on November 7 in world history? Here are 4 events worth remembering: See them above in our 57-second video, and below for more details! The reported deaths of Butch Cassidy and the ...
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Jewish Biography: Leonid Pasternak, Father of Boris, Wrestled with his Jewishness
Leonid Pasternak, a painter and professor at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, a master of ...
The Hindu12d
A Nobel prize for explaining why nations fail or succeed
The story so far: The 2024 Economics Nobel prize was awarded to U.S. economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson on Monday “for studies of how institutions are formed and ...
MercoPress14d
Japanese born British novelist Ishiguro wins the Nobel Literature Prize
said Sara Danius Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born British novelist best known for “The Remains of the Day,” won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. The selection of the 62-year-old ...
Yahoo Finance15d
23 Nobel Prize winners push for Kamala Harris, calling her a ‘better steward of our economy’ than Trump
A group of 23 Nobel Prize–winning economists released a petition this Wednesday championing Harris’s proposed agenda as better for the economy than Republican candidate Donald Trump’s.
The Daily Free Press16d
This year’s Nobel Prizes point to artificial intelligence’s role in future of scientific research
Artificial intelligence is now a key player in the scientific community, and its impact has been highlighted by this month’s Nobel Prize awards. This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to ...
The Korea Times17d
Will Han Kang's Nobel literature prize make Koreans read books?
When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize this month ... I had a similar reaction studying English literature at university, where I fell foul of a critical, dissecting way of looking at what is ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation18d
Han Kang's Nobel prize win sheds light on Gwangju uprising, a dark chapter in South Korean history
Han this month became the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Eyewitnesses and survivors of Gwangju welcomed the accolade, hoping it would help bring a previously hidden history to ...
The Daily Star18d
124 years on, gender gap in Nobel Prize still persists
Every October, the Nobel Prize committee awards the coveted prize to laureates in six categories: physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, literature, peace, and economics. Economics was added ...