#LITERATURE

Katarzyna Herbert, a literary translator and the wife of one of Poland’s greatest poets, died on Saturday aged 95.

British pop star Dua Lipa is proving herself as much a literary tastemaker as a chart-topper, urging her fans to read a book by Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk.

This year’s Nobl Prize winners for physics, chemistry, medicine, economics and literature were awarded their distinctions at a ceremony in Stockholm on Tuesday.

South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the award-giving body said on Thursday.

A former primary school teacher from the U.K. who chased his childhood dream of driving steam trains, has launched a book of the 20 years he spent on the footplates of Polish locomotives.

This year - 2024 - marks 100 years since acclaimed Polish writer Władysław Reymont was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel “The Peasants”.

Joanna Bator, a Polish novelist, journalist, and academic, has won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the Polish Book Institute has reported.

Lech Wałęsa’s locksmith workshop, Olga Tokarczuk’s calendar, Wisława Szymborska’s pen and glasses, and Maria Skłodowska-Curie’s scale are among the 250 items belonging to Nobel Prize winners that can be seen at the Nobel Prize Museum in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, starting from this Saturday.