Anger as Nobel winner Mo Yan defends Chinese censorship

First Reaction Fri 7 Dec, AT 09:21

Salman Rushdie calls author a 'patsy' as he compares censorship to airport security

Nobel ridiculed as 2012 Peace Prize is awarded to the EU

First Reaction Fri 12 Oct, AT 11:34

Controversial, political, comical: after twice rejecting EU membership, Norwegians give award to Brussels

Ai Weiwei angered by Mo Yan Nobel Prize for Literature

First Post Thu 11 Oct, AT 16:09

Communist Party welcomes China's first Nobel Prize for Literature, but fellow artists are unimpressed

Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to John Gurdon for ‘pluripotent cells'

One-Minute Read Mon 8 Oct, AT 13:33

Sir John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka share prize for work in reprogramming stem cells

Banker-bashing Iran style: four fraudsters sentenced to death

First Post Tue 31 Jul, AT 15:05

Iran deals harshly with perpetrators of £1.7bn fraud after public outcry against cronyism

Seamus Heaney

Parnassus Poetry event to bomb London with words

One-Minute Read Tue 26 Jun, AT 15:56

Stars include Seamus Heaney, Wole Soyinka and Kim Jong-il's former court poet

Nobel Peace Prize winners

Nobel Peace Prize: three heroic women honoured

First Post Fri 7 Oct, AT 14:44

Awards is shared by three women, one of whom used a sex strike to help bring peace to Liberia