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Kazuo Ishiguro
October 10, 2024
Mark Krotov
,
Alex Shephard
Can The Nobel Prize Save Publishing From Itself?
The Swedish Academy's decision to award Korean novelist Han Kang is a minor victory in a world of consolidation.
October 5, 2023
Alex Shephard
,
Mark Krotov
With Jon Fosse’s Win, the Nobel Prize in Literature Is So Back
The once wild-and-woolly literary award has entered its steady and serious era.
October 5, 2022
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Slippery Politics of the Nobel Prize in Literature
People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.
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October 3, 2022
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature?
If Haruki Murakami wins, I will eat one of his fancy T-shirts.
October 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Did Abdulrazak Gurnah Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
2021’s Nobel laureate is a little-known novelist and literary critic who was born in Zanzibar and has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s.
October 4, 2021
Alex Shephard
Nobel Committee Chair Anders Olsson on the “Renovation” of the Prize for Literature
Years after scandal rocked the committee, there’s a new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. But “literary merit,” Olsson insists, remains “the absolute and only criterion.”
April 12, 2021
Magazine
Rumaan Alam
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Deceptively Simple Story of AI
Why does “Klara and the Sun” serve up its big questions so explicitly?
October 6, 2020
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
October 9, 2019
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2019 (or the 2018!) Nobel Prize in Literature?
The only thing we know for sure is that the Swedish Academy won’t have Philip Roth to kick around anymore.
October 7, 2017
Christian Lorentzen
Blade Runner 2049
,
Never Let Me Go
, and the Longing to Be Human
Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel is a quieter dystopia than the "Blade Runner" movies, but its stakes are just as lethal.
October 5, 2017
Alex Shephard
What Happened to the Nobel Prize in Literature?
The prize has undergone a distinct change in recent years, opting for best-selling writers and rock stars.
October 5, 2017
Jo Livingstone
What’s So “Inscrutable” About Kazuo Ishiguro?
The author has now won the Nobel Prize. But critics are still struggling to understand him.
October 5, 2017
Alex Shephard
Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
May 21, 2007
James Wood
Getting to the End
May 16, 2005
James Wood
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