Yesterday, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich delivered the annual Nobel Lecture in Literature, at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Past lectures have provided fascinating windows into prizewinners’ life and work, and… Read more »

Last week, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) named the winners of the 2015 National Translation Award (NTA), an honor the organization has awarded annually to translators of book-length works since 1998. In the… Read more »

Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »

What do you do if you’re a self-confessed loner, recluse and a reluctant talker, who also happens to have sold millions of novels worldwide and has a matching number of… Read more »

Doris Lessing died on Sunday. She was the author of numerous novels, short story collections, plays, librettos and memoirs, and her work spanned multiple genres and modes of inquiry as… Read more »

Some prizes are important, and some prizes are just not to be trusted. For instance, a prize where when you win it you, you have to go to Stockholm and… Read more »

We’re extremely proud of our entire list of titles here at Melville House, a list that includes the best books by two winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Heinrich… Read more »

For the second year in a row now, Haruki Murakami has emerged as the favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, having been a frontrunner for the past decade. The… Read more »

Fans of William Faulkner, Nobel laureate and one of the great voices in the history of American literature proved themselves shockingly sane this week. In a Tuesday auction hyped by… Read more »

Pearl S. Buck , the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is best known for her novel The Good Earth, which also earned her a Pulitzer Prize.… Read more »