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Nobel Prize author did not pick literature A-level as it did not feel ‘useful’

Abdulrazak Gurnah told the BBC’s Desert Island Discs that he concentrated on science courses.

Evening Standard

The Peruvian Nobel Prize winner

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Mario Vargo Llosa. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers, and Erwan Rome’s “Music from Erwan”. All that, and the new quiz and bonus questions too, so click the “Play” button…

Radio France Internationale

H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s – who called Garwin “the only…

The Conversation

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Kazuo Ishiguro reveals why he prefers unfaithful film adaptations of his books

‘It’s a form of egomania,’ Nobel Prize winner said

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Global longevity competition for $101 million names semifinalists—here are their ideas for extending life by 10 years or more

Teams from all over the globe, composed of students, university researchers, and even a Nobel Prize winner, are competing for the coveted prize.

Fortune

45 Facts People Just Learned That Are So Awesome They Had To Share

These facts are guaranteed to pique your curiosity.

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Han Kang Nobel prize lecture book sells 10,000 copies in first day online in South Korea

Korean retailers report strong sales for Light and Thread, featuring speeches, essays and poems by novelist

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'The world of literature is mourning': How Mario Vargas Llosa brought Spanish to splendour

The world of literature is mourning the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner. He was 89. The author of 'The Feast of the goats' leaves behind an indelible legacy. With sadness and admiration, fans and friends have described him as an 'eternal scribe.'

Euronews

Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa dies aged 89

Peruvian authorities on Monday declared a day of mourning with flags to fly at half mast on government buildings following the death of the Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.

Radio France Internationale

Now Fox News is suggesting Trump could win Nobel Peace Prize over tariffs

‘Is there a Nobel Prize in trade? I don’t know, but maybe he might be up for that one,’ Fox News anchor John Roberts declared on Tuesday

The Independent UK

Nobel laureate claims "AI will not be conscious" and shouldn't be considered intelligent — Until it develops its own ideas

Nobel prize winner Sir Roger Penrose asserts that AI cannot achieve consciousness, according to Gödel's "Incompleteness Theorem."

Windows Central

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review: tightly-plotted excellence

I’ve just finished a story about a man who has everything,” says Karim, the ostensible hero of Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 11th novel, set in 1990s Tanzania. “How do you think the story will end?” he asks Badar, his mother’s servant boy, in a cruel taunt disguised as a…

Evening Standard

Three novels by Nobel winner Han Kang that explain the fragile nature of South Korea

Last year, South Korea made headlines around the world for two reasons. The first was writer Han Kang’s celebrated Nobel prize for literature win in October; the second was far less positive. Late in the evening of December 3 2024, the country’s President Yoon Suk Yeol unexpectedly declared martial law…

The Conversation

‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth

On the 20th anniversary of Never Let Me Go, the Nobel prize-winning novelist talks about the role of the author in a post-truth world – and why he’s ‘not a great writer of prose’

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‘The definition of a classic’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go at 20

A Booker-winning author, a Nobel prize-winning scientist and the directors of the film and stage adaptations on why Ishiguro’s dystopian tale still speaks to us today

Reason

Is Science Rigged for the Rich?

A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless.

The Conversation

Academic freedom and democracy under siege: how a Nobel peace prize could help defend them

Echoing the Stand Up for Science movement, which was organised in the US to defend academic freedom, a call to mobilise in France has been launched for Friday, March 7. Conferences, rallies and marches are being organised on the initiative of scientists united under the banner of Stand Up for…

The Conversation

In We Do Not Part, Han Kang faces unbearable historical traumas with sorrow and compassion

It’s daunting to review a novel written by someone who, in 2024, received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was awarded for Han Kang’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”: a description that applies equally to this newly translated work.

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Let’s See Which Side Of Your Brain Is Really Running The Show

Your brain is a pretty big deal—it’s basically running the show 24/7, acting as the command center for your thoughts, feelings, and actions. It’s not just powerful—it’s unique, with each half playing a different role in how you think and feel. There’s a popular theory from the 1960s by Nobel…

The Guardian - UK

We Do Not Part by Han Kang review – a harrowing journey into South Korea’s bloody history

The Nobel prize-winner’s strange and unsettling new novel takes its protagonist on a mission that ends up confronting terrible pre-war violence

The Conversation

We Do Not Part by Han Kang: a haunting story which forces the reader to remember a horrific incident in Korea’s past that it tried to erase

We Do Not Part is the latest book by Korean writer Han Kang, who won the Nobel prize in literature in 2024. The book begins in fragments that ebb between dark dream, waking nightmare and memories of how the book’s protagonist Kyungha got to this terrible way of living.

The Guardian - UK

‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea

With protests on the streets of Seoul, the celebrated writer talks about the painful process of uncovering her country’s brutal past - and how it felt to win the Nobel prize

The Independent UK

£1.65m gene-editing therapy offers hope of cure for some blood disorder patients

The treatment uses gene-editing tool Crispr, which earned its inventors the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2020.

The Guardian - UK

Sir Fraser Stoddart obituary

Organic chemist who shared the 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry for his contribution to the development of molecular machines

The Guardian - US

How Toni Morrison’s characters modeled womanhood and confinement in their dress

How people dress – their bodies, their communities, their houses – mattered a great deal to the Nobel prize winner

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