Topic - Swedish Academy

• China's popular Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize

  Novelist Mo Yan, this year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, is practiced in the art of challenging the status quo without offending those who uphold it.

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  Chinese writer wins Nobel Prize for literature

  Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, a cause of pride for a government that disowned the only previous Chinese winner of the award, exiled critic Gao Xingjian.

• A glance at the Nobel Prize for literature

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• Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize

  Novelist Mo Yan, this year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, is practiced in the art of challenging the status quo without offending those who uphold it.

• Swedish poet Transtromer wins Nobel in literature

  The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded on Thursday to Tomas Transtromer of Sweden, whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him wide recognition as the most influential Scandinavian poet of recent decades.

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  Swedish poet Transtromer wins Nobel in literature

  The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him acclaim as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II.

• Eastern writers in buzz for Nobel literature prize

  Is it time for the Nobel Prize in literature to come from the east?

• Nobel jurors hire foreign experts to broaden views

  The Nobel literature jury has hired more experts to review work by authors writing in non-European languages in an attempt to broaden the scope of the prize, its spokesman said Tuesday.

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  Nobel literature juror in RI denies prize biases

  The Swedish panel that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature isn't biased toward European writers or against American writers, a member of the panel said Wednesday.

• Nobel literature juror in RI denies prize biases

  A member of the panel that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature says he and his colleagues aren't biased toward European writers or against American writers.

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  Peruvian writer wins Nobel

  Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist.

• Poets buzzed about for Nobel literature prize

  With European novelists dominating recent Nobel literature awards, experts are guessing the Swedish Academy will look farther afield when it announces the 2010 winner on Thursday.

• Poets buzzed about for Nobel literature prize

  With European novelists dominating recent Nobel literature awards, experts are guessing the Swedish Academy will look farther afield when it announces the 2010 winner on Thursday.

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