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Nobel prize 2011

January 2012

  • Tomas Transtömer

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Six Winters by Tomas Tranströmer

    This brief sequence of poems is a vivid illustration of the Nobel prizewinner's singular gifts

  • Mark Knopfler in Perth

    Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler – review

    Former Dire Straits frontman and American musical colossus tour together, but do not share the stage

  • A noble sentiment, but another Nobel error

    Will Skidelsky
    William Skidelsky: The Nobel committee has an unparalleled record for ignoring the true giants of literature
  • Books blog
    Tomas Tranströmer's Nobel prize for literature provokes a mixed response

  • Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel laureate

    My hero
    Tomas Tranströmer – My Nobel prize-winning hero

  • Tomas Tranströmer

    Alone by Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer - audio

  • Tomas Tranströmer

    Guardian Books podcast: Why Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel prize

  • Tomas Tranströmer: Alone

  • Tomas Tranströmer: From March 1979

  • Tomas Tranströmer: Tracks

  • Nobel prize for literature goes to Tomas Tranströmer

  • Books blog
    Nobel prize for literature: Tomas Tranströmer joins a strange gang

  • Bob DYLAN

    Books blog
    Bob Dylan now favourite to take the Nobel prize for literature

    Odds on Dylan running away with the Nobel prize for literature tomorrow tumble from 100/1 to 5/1

  • Bob Dylan

    Nobel prize odds a-changin' for Bob Dylan

    Late surge in betting sees singer-songwriter's price shorten from 100/1 to 10/1 to win literature's highest honour
  • Assia Djebar

    Books blog
    Nobel prize for literature: place your bets

  • The writer Peter Englund

    Nobel prize for literature: picking a winner - podcast

September 2011

  • Adonis

    Adonis declared Nobel prize for literature favourite

    Celebrated Arab poet given odds of 4/1 by Ladbrokes
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