Consisting of 12 essays and poems, Light and Thread is Han’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in ...

Mario Vargas Llosa's long literary life established him as a monumental figure in Spanish-language literature and Latin ...

James Hookway is a foreign news editor at The Wall Street Journal.

Han Kang’s highly anticipated new book “Light and Thread” shot to the top of bestseller lists across Korea on its first day ...

Brenda Cronin is a special writer at The Wall Street Journal, where she reports and edits articles on the arts and culture. She has written about the oldest society of book collectors, a legendary New ...

Regarding the teacup, Han wrote that the teacup was part of her daily routine while she was writing “We Do Not Part.” She described her work routine: After getting up at 5:30 a.m. and going for a walk ...

The 35 winners of the highly prestigious Rome Prize were announced today. The prizes are awarded to American artists and ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died April 13. He was 89 ...

Recent stories of note: “Vargas Llosa Stood for Freedom Against the Nationalist Tide” Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street ...

Vargas Llosa, born Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. A central figure in the 1960s “Latin American Boom” movement, Vargas Llosa ...

A celebrated author and Nobel literature laureate with Syracuse University ties is dead at age 89. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died in Lima, Peru, on Sunday, while surrounded by his family, ...

In a famous incident in Mexico City in 1976, Vargas Llosa punched fellow Nobel Prize winner and ex-friend ... Peru’s San Marcos University to study literature and law, “the former as a calling ...