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Nobel prize in literature

July 2024

  • ALICE MUNRO

    Alice Munro knew my stepfather sexually abused me as a child, says Nobel laureate’s daughter

    Andrea Robin Skinner says her stepfather sexually assaulted her when she was nine, but her mother said she ‘loved him too much’ to leave him

June 2024

  • Hugely popular and yet still niche … César Aira at his home in Buenos Aires. Photograph: Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    César Aira’s unreal magic: how the eccentric author took over Latin American literature – podcast

    He has published more than 100 novels, gives his work away, and his surrealist books have a massive cult following. Now Argentina’s favourite rule-breaker is tipped for the Nobel prize. By Alejandro Chacoff

May 2024

  • Canadian prizewinning author Alice Munro, at the Sebel Town House. March 9, 1979. (Photo by Paul Stephen Pearson/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).

    Alice Munro obituary

  • Cesar Aira, smiling at the camera, scratches the back of his head. Behind him are some books on a shelf.

    The long read
    César Aira’s unreal magic: how the eccentric author took over Latin American literature

April 2024

  • A young girl reaches for a book between bookshelves in a library.

    A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back

    Letters: Readers share their tips on discovering new authors and reading more widely

March 2024

  • Chinese Nobel prize winner Mo Yan in 2017

    China Nobel prize winner tarred as one of ‘three new evils’ amid rise in nationalist fervour

    Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere online

December 2023

  • May-Brit Akerholt, translator of the Nobel prize in Literature winner Jon Fosse, at home in Springwood. NSW. Australia. 30th November 2023.  Photograph by Dean Sewell/Oculi for Guardian Australia.

    ‘I cried, I danced to Springsteen’: in Australia, a Nobel laureate’s translator celebrates their win

  • Jon Fosse giving a lecture

    Jon Fosse says he would have stopped writing 40 years ago if he had listened to critics

November 2023

  • Polar night in Swedish Lapland

    Book of the day
    A Shining by Jon Fosse review – a spiritual journey

    The new Nobel laureate’s latest novella is a shimmering fable about a man lost in a dark forest
  • Writing is like drinking - I do it to get rid of myself

    Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse: ‘It took years before I dared to write again’

    In 2012, the Norwegian novelist and playwright collapsed. He gave up drinking, retreating from the public eye – then, earlier this month, he got a call from the Swedish academy. He discusses how it feels to win a Nobel prize
  • Jon Fosse.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Jon Fosse

  • Jon Fosse near Frekhaug, north of Bergen in Norway.

    Read the opening of Jon Fosse’s The Other Name

  • Jon Fosse.

    Jon Fosse’s Nobel prize announces his overdue arrival on the global stage

  • Jon Fosse.

    Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literature

  • Nobel prize in literature 2023 won by Norwegian author Jon Fosse – as it happened

  • Tell us: what does Nobel literature prize winner Jon Fosse’s work mean to you?

  • Who will win the 2023 Nobel prize for literature? … (l-r) Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami and Can Xue

    Chinese author Can Xue favourite to win 2023 Nobel prize in literature

    Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also among those highly tipped for the prize, announced on Thursday

September 2023

  • View from a balcony of people on stage and seated in an auditorium

    Nobel Foundation reverses decision to invite Russian ambassador to awards

    Foundation backtracks on earlier announcement that representatives from Russia, Belarus and Iran would be invited

July 2023

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at his home in California. Photograph: Michael Tyrone Delaney/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature – podcast

    The Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing

June 2023

  • Annie Ernaux and her sons in The Super 8 Years.

    The Super 8 Years review – the family life of a Nobel prizewinner caught on film

    Literary ambition, motherhood and a quietly strained marriage appear in the sweet, soft focus home movies of French author Annie Ernaux
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