“The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: /- - -/ one part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction ...” (Excerpt from the will of Alfred Nobel)
Alfred Nobel had broad cultural interests. During his early youth, he developed his literary interests which lasted throughout his life. His library consisted of a rich and broad selection of literature in different languages. During the last years of his life, he tried his hand as an author and began writing fiction. Literature was the fourth prize area Nobel mentioned in his will.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden.
2018 New Academy Prize in Literature Winner
The New Academy Prize in Literature was established in 2018 in lieu of the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was not awarded in 2018. The New Academy will be dissolved in December 2018.
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
Our congratulations to French novelist Patrick Modiano for his Nobel Prize in Literature 2014. Mr. Modiano has won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the Occupation," the Swedish Academy said.
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Winner of France's primier literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, Missing Person is considered Modiano's most important novel.
(Daniel Weissbort's acclaimed English translation.)
A "New York Times" Notable Book
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