Sweden Awards Nobels But Shy Writer Stays Home
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Scientists and economists from the United States, Israel and Norway received their Nobel prizes on Friday at a ceremony marked by the conspicuous absence of literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek of Austria.
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Will it be an Arab, a woman, a poet? The buzz mounted as the literary world played its annual guessing game of who would win the coveted Nobel Prize in literature this year, but no single author emerged a clear ...
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Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek is  afraid that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature will turn  her into something she never wanted to be -- a celebrity.
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Nobel literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek said on Thursday she could not receive the prize in person because she had "social phobia," while criticizing Austria in a testimony to her love-hate relationship with ...
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Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 7. True to the mood of despair cast in her novels (which include The Piano Teacher, Lust, and Women as Lovers), Jelinek, 57, said that she &quot;can&#39;t stand&quot; the attention
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The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Oct. 12, the Swedish Academy said Friday, keeping the literay world guessing for nearly another week.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden Americans have dominated the annual Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences five years running, and it may not surprise Nobel watchers if the trend continues.
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It was the narrative of an old Cuban fisherman's struggle against nature that finally persuaded the Swedish Academy that Ernest Hemingway wasn't too rich or famous to be honored with a Nobel Prize.
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In a little known story, the Nobel Prizes almost never came to be, largely because of the unsophisticated way Alfred Nobel drew up his will.
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Finn E Kydland, who shared the Nobel Prize in economics last week, makes lots of references to his modest upbringing on Norway's west coast.
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It was the narrative of an old Cuban  fisherman's struggle against nature that finally persuaded the  Swedish Academy that Ernest Hemingway wasn't too rich or famous  to be honored with a Nobel Prize.
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Oct. 7, 2004 - Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a self-described advocate for &quot;the weak&quot; whose forceful defenses of social and political freedom have frequently clashed with conservatives in her native country, has won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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The big-bang theory of the universe, microcredit and literature exploring Turkey's clash of cultures will be honored as six American scientists, a Bangladeshi economist and a Turkish novelist receive the Nobel Prizes Sunday in Stockholm and Oslo.
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British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to travel to Sweden for a presentation last month.
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It's morning rush hour in Stockholm's subway and the commuters are strangely silent: conversation is out of the question as all noses are buried in one of the many free daily papers that have become a roaring success in Sweden.
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STOCKHOLM/VIENNA: Elfriede Jelinek on Thursday became the 10th woman and first Austrian to win the Nobel Literature Prize. Speculation had been rife that a woman would win.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The Nobel Prize in physics is like a scientific riddle: speculation about who could win equals the sheer complexity of the work examined for the coveted award.    This year's choice, which is to be announced Tuesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, could be involved in the search for dark matter or nanotubes...