Nurturing Environmental Stewardship Wangari Maathai, who captured the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, was deeply connected to Kenya's ...

We Taiwanese, who have long been walking our own road to democracy, must have faith in the power of civilization and enlightenment, and safeguard our shared homeland. May Taiwan be ever courageous; ...

literature and peace awards. The Peace Prize announcement will be made on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, while all the others will be announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of ...

Held in RK Narayan’s sleepy small town of Malgudi, the festival will feature some of the greatest writers ever – from William ...

Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2022, "The Netanyahus" is a searing comic novel that peers behind the psychology of an abrasive ...

The English translation of Han Kang’s latest novel, We Do Not Part, arrived in the US on Jan 21, with a British version released last Thursday. Translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. came to the Swannanoa Valley twice in his lifetime. The first time was in January 1964 for the ...

Marion Wiesel, who translated many books written by her husband, Elie Wiesel, including the final edition of his magnum opus, ...

Khorana’s research at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin and later at MIT helped decipher the ...

In 2024, she became the first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, recognized for “her intense ... according ...

Among his best-known work is the 1994 poem Ceasefire, inspired by the then-ceasefires in his native Northern Ireland and the search for peace and reconciliation ... level that would be befitting of a ...

The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...