Nobel Prize in Literature

Orhan Pamuk, a prominent novelist and Turkey's first Nobel laureate, has tied the knot with Aslı Akyavaş, with whom he has been together for nearly 10 years.

The couple's wedding ceremony was held at Beyoğlu Municipality's Office in presence of their close family members due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism."

Born in Zanzibar and based in England, Gurnah is a professor at the University of Kent. His novel "Paradise" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994.

At the moment when Austrian writer Peter Handke received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm yesterday, his opponents protested sharply. In a sea of tumultuous reactions challenging the decision of the Nobel Committee, the gesture of a certain Swedish physician, Christina Doctare, stood out.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg is one of four winners of the "Alternative Nobel Prize", awarded annually by a private Swedish foundation.

16-year-old Thunberg was honoured by Rights Livelihood awards judges for her "inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts" 

Netflix said March 7 it has acquired the film rights to "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and will turn it into a Spanish language TV series.

(CNN) - This year's Nobel Prize in Literature has been postponed in the wake of a sexual and financial scandal that has engulfed the Swedish Academy, the cultural institution responsible for awarding the prestigious prize.

The Swedish Academy said yesterday it would postpone this year's Nobel Literature Prize for the first time in almost 70 years, as it is rocked by turmoil over links to a man accused of rape and sexual assault.

The organization behind the "Alternative Nobel" said a 2017 prize winner has been barred from leaving her native Azerbaijan to attend the Dec. 1 award ceremony in Stockholm.

The University of Crete's Department of Philology will award an honorary doctorate to the 65-year-old Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, it was reported on Saturday.

University officials said they made the decision in order to honor Pamuk - winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 2006 - whom they described as a world-renowned author and a champion of democracy and human rights.

The Chilean poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 did not die of cancer. This was announced by Judge Mario Carossa after meeting with an international group of experts who analyzed the poet's remnants. They were exhumed in April 2013 and buried again in April 2016.