Chilean poet Neruda to be exhumed Monday The remains of Chilean Nobel prize winning poet Pablo Neruda will be exhumed Monday to determine if he died of cancer or was poisoned.
06 April 2013 13:22
Slovakia's steel hub Kosice dusts off its creative side Known mainly for its steelworks, the gritty industrial hub of Kosice in east Slovakia is hard at work reforging itself as a centre of creativity and the arts as it enters 2013 with the tag "European Capital of Culture".
19 January 2013 14:12
Writers must take on political issues: China's Mo Yan Chinese author Mo Yan, some of whose works have cast an unflattering eye on official policy, said after winning the literature Nobel that it was a writer's duty to spotlight political and social issues.
13 October 2012 13:48
Munro, Murakami and Roth among Nobel literature favourites With just hours to go before the Nobel Literature Prize laureate is announced in Stockholm, speculation has hit fever pitch with Canada's Alice Munro and Japan's Haruki Murakami often cited as possible winners.
11 October 2012 18:42
Time for a woman to win Nobel Literature Prize, say pundits Stockholm's literary circles are abuzz with speculation about this year's Nobel Literature Prize, and while it's notoriously difficult to predict the laureate, some experts are saying it's time for a woman.
Garcia Marquez foundation refutes dementia claim The head of a foundation created by Colombian Nobel literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Monday refuted claims from the author's brother that he is suffering from dementia.
10 July 2012 14:53
All Kazakhstan will read the same bookOralkhan Bokeyev’s "Where are you, my bausond colt?" collection of stories will become the book of the year this time.
