As a fan of Annie Ernaux I was delighted to read that she was the 2022 Nobel Prize Laureate for literature. The Swedish Committee selected Annie Ernaux for the Nobel Prize for the courage and cli...
https://carolbalawyder.com/2023/05/11/nobel-prize-laureate-annie-ernaux/
Born in 1943 in New York, Louise Glück who lives in Massachusetts and is also a professor of English at Yale University, is this years recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature. Glück was rec...
https://carolbalawyder.com/2020/10/16/nobel-prize-laureate-louise-gluck/
Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018-2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. Although this prize is awarded to Olga Tokarczuk in 2019, she is actually the 2018 nomination. The prize was held over...
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Svetlana Alexievich wins the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. An investigative journalist from Belarus, Alexievich is the 14th woman to win this prestigious prize and the first female Russian wri...
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Fourteen women have so far won the Nobel Prize for Literature. They are: 1909: Selma Lagertof (Sweden) 1926: Grazia Deledda (Italy) 1928: Sigrid Undset (Denmark) 1938: Pearl. S. Buck (USA) 1945: ...
https://carolbalawyder.com/2014/09/05/nobel-prize-laureates-who-is-next/
The Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909). The SwedishAcademy awarded her the prize in appreciation of the lofty idealism, her viv...
https://carolbalawyder.com/2014/08/30/nobel-prize-laureate-selma-lagerlof/
Toni Morrison’s first novel,The Bluest Eye was her effort to depict racial self-loathing and to question the standards of beauty in America. In an afterword of the 1999 edition of The Bluest...
https://carolbalawyder.com/2014/08/15/nobel-prize-laureate-toni-morrison/
In the unimaginable aftershock of the Second World War the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno made the famous statement, ‘To write poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.’ It was Nelly Sach...
https://carolbalawyder.com/2014/08/01/nobel-prize-laureate-nelly-sachs/
Although Pearl S. Buck was born in America, she spent the first forty years of her life living in China. Her novel The Good Earth, which was instrumental in her winning the Nobel Prize for Liter...
https://carolbalawyder.com/2014/07/25/nobel-prize-laureate-pearl-s-buck/
Mistral’s works, both in verse and prose, deal with the basic passion of love as seen in the various relationships of mother and offspring, man and woman, individual and humankind, soul and God...
https://carolbalawyder.com/2014/07/11/nobel-prize-laureate-gabriela-mistral/