Nobel Prize in Literature

QUERETARO, MEXICO - 2022/09/03: Wole Soyinka speaks during day 4 of the 'Hay Festival Queretaro' at Teatro de la Ciudad. The Hay Festival Querétaro is a cultural and ideas festival for all audiences that celebrates the arts and sciences through inclusive, accessible and playful events. (Photo by Cesar Gomez/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Actual Nobel Prize Winner Thanks Trump for Yanking His Visa

Wole Soyinka found his visa revoked after saying Trump resembled a “white Idi Amin.”

Tom Sanders

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai attends the "Letterature" International Festival at Stadio Palatino on July 08, 2025 in Rome, Italy.

Novelist Known for Apocalyptic Themes Wins Nobel Prize

The committee chair called László Krasznahorkai “a great epic writer” in the tradition of other Central European luminaries.

Janna Brancolini

Author Mario Vargas Llosa in Madrid, Spain.

Peruvian Novelist and Nobel Winner Mario Vargas Llosa Dies

Vargas Llosa first earned international acclaim in the 1960s and went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Lauren Lewis

Canadian Author Alice Munro winner of the 2009 Booker International Prize

Nobel Prize Winning Author Alice Munro Dead at 92

The Canadian author won the Nobel for Literature in 2013.

Jessica Ferri

American poet Louise Gluck, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature.

‘UNMISTAKABLE POETIC VOICE’

Nobel-Winning Poet Louise Glück Dies at 80

Glück’s sprawling works earned her nearly endless accolades throughout her more than 60-year career.

Mark Alfred

Jon Fosse poses in Oslo, Norway, Sept. 6, 2019.

Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Norwegian Author Jon Fosse

The Swedish Academy praised his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

Dan Ladden-Hall