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Sara Danius, first woman to head Swedish Academy that awards Nobel Prize in Literature, dies at 57

In 2014, Mr Peter Handke called for the Nobel Literature Prize to be abolished, saying that it brought its winner "false canonisation". Meanwhile, Ms Olga Tokarczuk is only the 15th woman to have won the prize. PHOTOS: EPA-EFE

Two Nobels for literature awarded in wake of scandal

Nobel Prizes in Literature awarded to Austrian author Peter Handke and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk

A display at i Light Singapore - Bicentennial Edition. In Singapore, the lot of the immigrant is historically that of complete transformation, a relatively rapid melting and welding into a new image, a Singaporean image, says the writer. ST FILE PHOT

What Singapore's Bicentennial means to this new immigrant

Jane Austen's multicultural afterlives

From zombies to gender swops: Retelling Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice

A portrait of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison by artist Robert McCurdy at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Morrison's death, on Aug 5, raises the question: Is she the last of the great American novelists?

The status of great novels in the age of Twitter

Loss of a fearless, clarion voice

Writer Toni Morrison (in a 2008 file photo) produced landmark works that foregrounded the African-American experience, particularly from a female perspective.

An unflinching look at the dark side of humanity

Trailblazing Toni Morrison wrote fearlessly, incisively about African-American experience