Alfred Nobel rewrote his Will to donate more than 90 percent of his life earnings to create a symbol of respect and honor for the people who contributed to the betterment of mankind, the symbol is now known as the Nobel Prize.
Gluck's poems centre on relationships, they centre on responses to the non-human world; the empirical and the epistemic are fused seamlessly in her poems, so protagonists from the Greek classics blend in with the contemporary American landscape and soulscape, braided with a sense of universal humanism and deep empathy for sentient life-forms
Members of the Nobel Foundation, which funds the Literature Prize, have said the Academy still needs to do more to recover its reputation.
All through his celebrated career, Naipaul made many scathing remarks on record about women, race and his homeland Trinidad. But that was VS Naipaul in a nutshell. Cold, unapologetic for his views, outspoken but a master storyteller with a flair of weaving unforgettable stories.
