As the end of the year approaches, literary prizes are in the spotlight. This is a fitting moment to take a closer look at the figures behind the Nobel Prize in Literature. This article provides an overview of how many female authors have received the prize compared...
The French author Laurent Mauvignier has been awarded the 2025 Prix Goncourt for La Maison vide (The Empty House), a sweeping 750-page family saga. In this powerful novel, Mauvignier tells a fictionalised story inspired by three generations of women in his own family....
On 9 October 2025, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, citing his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Krasznahorkai has long been...
On 12 June 2025, it was announced that Dutch novelist Yael van der Wouden had won the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Safekeep – a story set in the Netherlands in the early 1960s, exploring themes of sexual desire, family secrets, and the legacy of the Second World War.