Quote of the Day by French philosopher Albert Camus: “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune” — Life lessons on emotional pain, healing, resilience and how to overcome negativity by the Nobel Prize-winning authorQuote of the Day by Albert Camus: French philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus once wrote, “When the soul suffers too muc...
08 May, 2026, 05.49 PM IST
Quote of the Day by Theodore Roosevelt: ‘If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for…’ – Why you shouldn't ignore the youngest US President’s innocuous take on fixing your own problemsQuote of the Day: Theodore Roosevelt's quote, 'If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't...
29 Apr, 2026, 10.14 AM IST
Tagore a multifaceted personality who shaped many institutions, says PM ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi remembered Rabindranath Tagore's legacy on his birth anniversary. He noted Tagore's role in shaping institutio...
26 Apr, 2026, 01.25 PM IST
Quote of the day by Rudyard Kipling: ‘A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty’. Nobel laureate on woman’s gut feeling vs man’s logicRudyard Kipling's quote, 'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty,' highlights the power of intuition over rigid logic...
19 Apr, 2026, 02.31 PM IST
Nobel literature buzz tips Swiss postmodernist, Australians for prizeSwiss postmodernist novelist Christian Kracht and Australia'ahead of the Swedish Academy's much-anticipated announcement on Thursday. Among...
07 Oct, 2025, 09.02 AM IST
Nobel Prize Winners in India: From Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa to Amartya Sen, here is the full listThe Nobel Prize recognizes outstanding global contributions in various fields, with several Indians achieving this honor. Key laureates inc...
07 Oct, 2024, 04.26 PM IST
Nobel prize 2024 winners in medicine, physics, chemistry, economics, peace, literature: How they are selected, prize moneyVictor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun receive the 2024 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering microRNA's role in gene regulation, advancing medica...
07 Oct, 2024, 03.47 PM IST
Nobel Prize season begins: Here's everything you need to know about itThe Nobel Prize season has begun in Scandinavia, with the Nobel committees in Stockholm and Oslo preparing to announce the recipients of th...
02 Oct, 2023, 01.20 PM IST
Nobel Prize 2022: French author Annie Ernaux bags Nobel Prize in literatureFrench author Annie Ernaux, known for her autobiographical writing about courage and clinical acuity, won the Nobel Prize in literature thi...
06 Oct, 2022, 06.12 PM IST
Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah bags Nobel Literature PrizeGurnah has published 10 novels and a number of short stories.
07 Oct, 2021, 05.16 PM IST
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is back with a new novel after nearly 50 years'Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth' is published by Bloomsbury.
29 Sep, 2021, 01.48 PM IST
Literature Nobel awarded to American Louise Gluck for 'unmistakable poetic voice'; 16th woman to be fetedThe 77-year-old Yale professor beat Murakami and Margaret Atwood.
08 Oct, 2020, 05.35 PM IST
Mercedes Barcha, widow of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, passes away at 87Barcha is survived by her two sons with Garcia Marquez, Gonzalo and Rodrigo Garcia Barcha.
17 Aug, 2020, 09.18 AM IST
ET View: It’s not so much Peter Handke, but the Nobel Prize that should be judged by its choiceWhat has troubled some critics is that he is a public sympathiser of Yugoslavian and Serbian war criminal Slobodan Miloševic.
11 Oct, 2019, 01.18 PM IST
Why Patrick Modiano winning the Nobel in Literature would exasperate someBy picking the French writer for the Literature Nobel, the Swedish Academy wants us to choose something on the menu most of us haven’t trie...
12 Oct, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
- Girish Karnad not the only one to aver that some Nobel laureates are undeserving
He would not be alone in pointing out that Nobel selectors often fall short of expectations when it comes to choosing laureates.
12 Nov, 2012, 04.44 AM IST
Forgive, but don’t forgetPrimo Levi survived the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. For the rest of his life, the Italian writer, who was also an...
09 Dec, 2010, 07.25 AM IST