🔴Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Canada’s Anne Carson

Canadian author Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”. Last year, Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humour, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror”. Read moreLaszlo Krasznahorkai: Hungary's 'master of apocalypse' Three science awards were announced earlier this week. The Nobel for medicine went to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works. The physics award recognised a scientist’s efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos. The chemistry prize recognised two scientists for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs. This week ends with Friday's peace prize. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced Monday. The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million), whether for an individual, small group of laur...