Searching for meaning in an absurd world
I had the chance to revisit my younger self the other day when I watched François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ classic L’Étranger. The film – titled The ...
Norway’s Jon Fosse gets Nobel literature prize for giving ‘voice to the unsayable’
Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the award-giving body said on Thursday.
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UK-Cypriot Anthony Anaxagorou wins Ondaatje Prize for poetry
UK-Cypriot Anthony Anaxagorou won a literature prize for his book of poetry ‘Heritage Aesthetics’, reports from London said.
According to a report in the Guardian, Anaxagorou won the £10,000 Ondaatje prize ...
Tanzania’s Gurnah, novelist of colonialism and refuge, wins 2021 Nobel
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee,” the award-giving body ...