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Nobel prize 2010

October 2012

  • Chinese author Mo Yan

    Nobel literature prize-winner expresses hope of Chinese dissident's release

    Mo Yan, seen as being close to Communist party, says he wishes peace prize-winner Liu Xiaobo achieves freedom soon

December 2010

  • Mario Vargas Llosa gives his Nobel lecture

    Vargas Llosa's Nobel address extols political power of literature

    Addressing the Swedish Academy, the novelist says fiction is essential to a healthy society

November 2010

  • Llosa Mario Vargas

    Nobel prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa allowed novels to be censored in Spain

    Peruvian novelist admits to editing sections of his 1963 classic City and the Dogs after meeting General Franco's chief censor

  • Mario Vargas Llosa

    Mario Vargas Llosa: an unclassifiable Nobel winner

  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    Books blog
    Why Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have won the Nobel prize for literature

  • Mario Vargas Llosa the Peruvian writer

    Mario Vargas Llosa surprised and delighted by Nobel prize win

    Peruvian-born Mario Vargas Llosa said he thought it was a joke when he received an early morning call to say he had won

  • Mario Vargas Llosa

    Books blog
    Nobel prize for literature winner's life should not eclipse his work

    The clashes and controversies that have clustered around Mario Vargas Llosa should not distract readers from his achievements as a writer
    • Mario Vargas Llosa: Five essential novels

    • Nobel prize for literature goes to Mario Vargas Llosa

    • Books blog
      Mario Vargas Llosa: a worthy Nobel prize for literature winner?

  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    Poverty matters blog
    Ngugi wa Thiong'o: a major storyteller with a resonant development message

  • adonis-nobel-prize

    Why Adonis should win the Nobel

    Gerard Russell
  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    Kenyan author sweeps in as late favourite in Nobel prize for literature

    Odds on novelist, theorist and activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o tumble from 75-1 to 3-1

September 2010

  • Tomas Tranströmer

    Poet tipped in Nobel prize for literature

    Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer declared favourite by bookmakers, with nearest rivals also poets
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