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Nationalities Papers, 2023
AbstractThis article addresses the protest against the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Peter Handke as an example of transnational memory activism. It analyzes from a transnational mobilization perspective how activists achieved a globally visible protest in Stockholm and what role memory played in the protest mobilization and framing.
Johanna Paul
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The Nobel Prize in Literature and Morrison’s Trilogy

Toni Morrison, 2015
Morrison survived the year 1992 with its three books ( Jazz, Race-ing Justice, and Playing in the Dark) but it was difficult. She got very little new writing done. In fact, since Beloved had won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Morrison had been on the reading and lecturing circuit — and she had also been the recipient of important literary prizes ...
Linda W. Wagner-Martin
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Japan’s Quest for the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Aftereffects

Journal of World Literature
Abstract This paper examines Japan’s quest for the Nobel Prize in Literature as a narrative “before” winning, and its aftereffect as a narrative “after” winning. It first draws from archival material to discuss the roles of diplomacy, the context of Cold War politics and translation techniques in Kawabata Yasunari’s win.
Takashi Inoue
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The Entangled Histories of the Nobel Prize in Literature and PEN

Journal of World Literature
Abstract Drawing on archival records, this paper explores the interrelation and modes of interaction between two major institutions of world literature: the Nobel Prize and PEN, with special attention paid to Swedish PEN and its activities from 1950 into the 1970s.
Jørgen Sneis
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