IN PHOTOS: Women who won the Nobel Literature Prize

Author Alice Munroe won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. The 82-year-old became the first Canada-based writer to win the honour. Munroe will be presented with her award at a formal......

Harold Pinter wins Literature Nobel

British playwright Harold Pinter, whose juxtaposition of the brutal and the banal dubbed an adjective that bears his name, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.The Swedish Academy said......

A mirror to the dark side of the world

It's amazing what a Nobel Prize can do.Until this morning, not many non-Germans knew that a woman called Elfriede Jelinek existed. This state of unknowing underwent a dramatic change with an......

Nobel Literature Prize for Austrian

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2004 was on Thursday awarded to Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek. The acclaimed and controversial writer work explores the role of women in society among other......