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‘James’ Won the Pulitzer, but Not Without Complications
In an unusual but not unprecedented move, the prize board chose a fourth option after it couldn’t agree on the three ...
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Carnegie Mellon Professor Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History
The Department of History's Edda Fields-Black has been named a recipient of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for her research on Harriet Tubman.
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Peter Tarlow: Jews made major contributions to American literature
Jews around the world sit down at their Passover table and retell the story of the exodus from Egypt. To tell stories and ...
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Japan's 'hibakusha' push for end to nuclear weapons
Japanese foreign minister seeks to strengthen international cooperation, bridge deepening divisions ahead of 2026 review meet ...
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On This Day: Bob Dylan Becomes First Rock Musician to Receive Pulitzer Prize in 2008
In 2016, Dylan also became the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, which he said left him “speechless.” During the Nobel Banquet ceremony on December 10 ...
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Putin's Russia is using mass rape as a 'weapon of war' against Ukrainian civilians, Nobel peace prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk tells the Mail's 'Apocalypse Now?' podcast
For its tireless work preserving the stories of victims, The Centre for Civil Liberties was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. In conversation with the Mail's special correspondent David ...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, luminary of Spanish-language literature, dies at 89
Writing “is a way of living with illusion ... In presenting the author with the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy praised Mr. Vargas Llosa’s ability to use fiction “to ...
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"They're rockstars": Dal scientist preps for one‑of‑a‑kind scholarly summit with Nobel Prize winners
Traveling to Europe to spend a week in the company of Nobel Prize winners sounds like a dream for any early-career scientist. It certainly did for Dr. Sarah Martell, who couldn’t believe it when she ...
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Nobel Literature Prize winner Han Kang talks about how writing connects her to readers
STOCKHOLM--South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke passionately on Saturday about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all ...
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NeuroNOS Appoints Nobel Prize Laureate, Professor Dan Shechtman, to Scientific Advisory Board
Professor Shechtman joins fellow Nobel Prize laureate Professor Roger Kornberg to advance the development of treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Alzheimer's Disease BOSTON, April 15, 2025 ...
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‘We Are Not Programmed to Die,’ Says Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
What was the biggest surprise or most deeply held belief that you had to reconsider while writing and researching ... less dynamic and creative. The Nobel Prize-winning South American novelist ...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89
Vargas Llosa started writing early, and at 15 was a part-time crime reporter ... In a famous incident in Mexico City in 1976, Vargas Llosa punched fellow Nobel Prize winner and ex-friend García ...