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His “dystopian, melancholic novels” have earned lavish praise from the likes of Colm Tóibín, Susan Sontag and W.G. Sebald, said Emma Loffhagen in The Guardian. Now, László Krasznahorkai has scooped ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize in literature for his surreal and anarchic novels that combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, gave a lecture in ...

The United States has revoked the visa of Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka, who became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Speaking at Kongi’s Harvest ...