Nobel Literature Series

The 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Peruvian author Llosa. But Japan’s most celebrated contemporary writer must surely stand a chance in the future.

This writer once went on a spiritual trek through mountainous southwest China.

This ‘nonconformist’ writer supports human rights and denounces nuclear weapons.

This literary great sent a friend to accept his Nobel Prize for him in 1973.

This iconic writer and Asian Nobel Laureate brought ‘beauty’ and ‘Japan’ together.

This popular literary figure was the first Asian to win a Nobel Literature prize.

Despite big changes in literature, we’ve found reason to turn the focus back on it.