The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...
Japan and Russia,” U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win any Nobel Prize. The 26th president was also the first statesman to win a Peace Prize, a historic occurrence ...
Han is the second South Korean national to win a Nobel Prize. Late former President ... that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose.
Since its foundation in 1901, there have only been five Asian and 18 women Nobel Prize in Literature winners out of 121 individuals. In an interview with the Swedish Academy, Han Kang responded that ...