Chinese writer Mo Yan has today been named the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.

A PERUVIAN author whose latest novel is based on the life of Irish nationalist Roger Casement has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature.

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has won this year's Nobel prize for literature.

The 1984 original, directed by that master of horror, Wes Craven, was a classic – at least in the initial films – so why there was deemed to be a need for a remake (billed as a re-imagining) remains a mystery.

HERTA MUELLER, a member of Romania’s ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse.