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Han Kang wins the Nobel Prize for literature. She’s the first South Korean to do so

STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts…

John McCarthy October 12, 2024

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Nobel Peace Prize given to Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work against nuclear weapons

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.…

John McCarthy October 12, 2024

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Guadeloupe-born writer mentioned as possible Nobel Literature Prize candidate

BASSE-TERRE — Acclaimed Guadeloupe-born writer Maryse Condé is often mentioned as a possible Nobel Literature Prize candidate. The 89-year-old writer was nominated for the International Booker Prize for translated fiction…

John McCarthy July 17, 2023

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Doomsday Clock to be updated on January 24

Tick, tick, tick. An update is coming to the "Doomsday Clock," representing the judgment of leading science and security experts about the perils to human existence. The Bulletin of the…

John McCarthy January 18, 2023