The novelist and short-story writer, who died Monday at ninety-six, contributed to The New Yorker for more than six decades.

The launch of a book about the late literary figure is one of the highlights of Cork International Short Story Festival ...

Abigail Chachkes ’25 recently won the Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize for her short story "Do It Again", inspired by a 16th-century saint starving herself from religious devotion.

A farmer describes what Sukkos was like for his family when they immigrated from Russia and didn’t even have a house yet.

South Africa’s Nadia Davids recently won the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story “Bridling”, published ...

H AN KANG has been called “Korea’s Kafka”. Rather than giant bugs, her metamorphoses involve vegetation. “The Fruit of My ...

The Irish, who gained their independence almost three decades before Israel, have singularly failed to revive their native ...

Syed Waliullah’s (1922-1971) debut novel Lal Shalu drew significant attention upon its release but faced mixed reviews, ...

Han Kang, South Korea's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was slow to global acclaim, getting her first big ...

After two years of Europe-centric Nobel Prizes in Literature (Jon Fosse, Annie Ernaux), the Swedish Academy has looked east ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Han Kang, South Korea's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was slow to secure global acclaim, ...

From the daily newsletter: the first South Korean to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Plus: the Saudi Princesses held captive ...