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Nobel Literature Prize for Austrian

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2004 is awarded to Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek.

Outrage over Nobel Literature prize for Peter Handke

Handke emerged as a vocal defender of the Serbs during the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia, even comparing them to Jews under the Nazis, a remark he later retracted.

J M Coetzee bags Nobel literature prize

IN PHOTOS: Women who won the Nobel Literature Prize

Rediff.com takes a walk down the memory lane and showcases women who have won the coveted prize.

Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke win Literature Nobels

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was postponed for a year due to the sexual harassment scandal that shook the Swedish Academy.

VS Naipaul 'killed off by FBI'

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, the very-much-alive 77-year-old British writer who received the Nobel Literature Prize in 2001, was "killed off" by the FBI in a footnote. The slip-up was noticed after documents presented to a Chicago court were unsealed on Tuesday wherein the acclaimed writer is referred to as "the late V.S Naipaul, a Nobel prize winning author" in the footnote of sworn testimony by Special Agent Lorenzo Benedict.

Singer, songwriter Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Dylan, 75, was honoured "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the Swedish Academy said.

Will Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan Be A Blockbuster?

Mani Ratnam is experimenting with a real-life historical in Ponniyin Selvan, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.