6 h. ago Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai

The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storytellerThat Christmas – it was almost 20 years ago – I came back from America with news. My friend Daniel Medin had recommended two books to me, both by the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, one called War and War and the other The Melancholy of Resistance. We had also watched some Béla Tarr films, whose screenplays had been written by Krasznahorkai. The sense of slow, seething menace in the film Werckmeister Harmonies, based on The Melancholy of Resistance, and the lack of easy psychology and obvious motive in the film, the camera moving like a cat, made it exciting, but not as exciting as the two novels.Krasznahorkai, I noticed, loved the snaking sentence, the high-wire act, mild panic steering towards a shivering fear felt by his characters, followed, in clause after clause, by fitful realisations and further reasons for gloom or alarm, and ...

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7 h. ago Aidan O’Brien moves closer to own world record with 22nd Group 1 winner of 2025

Precise became the new favourite for next year’s 1,000 Guineas after capturing the Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket, an seventh winner of the race for her trainer

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14 h. ago Trump fails in bid for Nobel Peace Prize as Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 award

The news will come as a bitter blow to the US President after he secured a ‘historic’ peace deal between Hamas and Israel

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14 h. ago Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize — as Donald Trump misses out

Maria Corina Machado received coveted award for her ‘tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela’

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14 h. ago Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado wins world's most prestigious award

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been announced.

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36 h. ago László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The Hungarian novelist whose books ‘reaffirm the power of art’ was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm• Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced.The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago László Krasznahorkai: Hungarian author wins Nobel Prize in literature for 2025

Several of author’s books, including ‘Satantango’ and ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’, have been adapted into feature films

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38 h. ago Has Trump just won the Nobel Peace Prize at the last minute? Historic Gaza deal agreed hours before judges announce who wins the award Donald has been coveting since his election

With just hours to go before judges announce the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, experts are wondering whether the US president will win the prestigious award.

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64 h. ago Big Brother 2025 winner ‘sealed’ after formal warning given over Caroline's outburst

Last night's episode of Big Brother proved to be a hugely dramatic one, with Caroline receiving a formal warning after calling male transgender contestant Zelah 'a girl'

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4 d. ago Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactableThe Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray.Fred Ramsdell shared Monday’s prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing bookies reveal odds on who will leave the show first

BBC dance competition will see first celebrity eliminated in tonight’s results show

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6 d. ago Strictly's Craig Revel Horwood predicts 2025 winner as he issues warning to star

Strictly Come Dancing returned to screens on Saturday night for the second live show

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6 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing fans name '2025 winner' and are left with 'no words'

George Clarke took to the stage with his partner Alexis Warr and impressed Strictly fans on Saturday night

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6 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing 2025 winner 'named' in 'one to beat' confirmation amid first exit

The hit BBC One dance show returned to screens in September

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9 d. ago ‘Dominant on the river’: 32 Chunk crowned champion in ‘biggest Fat Bear Week yet’

Brown bear’s nearly 100,000 votes leads him to victory despite suffering for most of season with broken jaw“The merely chubby have been winnowed away,” a naturalist intoned. “We are left with a clash of titans.”After a record-breaking week of public voting, Katmai national park and preserve in Alaska has announced the winner of its “biggest Fat Bear Week yet”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago From the Swiss Alps to a solar eclipse: the 2025 Bird Photographer of the Year – in pictures

An image of a magnificent frigatebird silhouetted against a total solar eclipse by Canadian photographer Liron Gertsman was chosen from more than 25,000 images as the grand prize-winner in 2025’s largest bird photography competition. Young bird photographer of the year was awarded to Tomasz Michalski Continue reading...

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1 week ago ITV fans have already crowned their Big Brother winner after 'iconic' moment

Big Brother fans have already crowned their 2025 champion as the reality TV show returned to ITV screens for a brand new season

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1 week ago Threatened kārearea falcon wins New Zealand’s 2025 bird of the year

The country’s fastest bird has taken out the top prize in a scandal-free year for the annual pollNew Zealand’s fastest bird, capable of flying 200km/h in its pursuit of prey, has been crowned bird of the year – a long-running annual competition that has previously been a lightning rod for scandal and hijinks.The threatened kārearea is New Zealand’s only falcon. It is small and tawny, with impressive talons and large dark eyes. Kārearea are powerful aerial hunters and watch other birds, lizards or small mammals – sometimes larger than themselves – from a high vantage point before diving at high speed to snatch their prey. Continue reading...

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1 week ago British Open snooker 2025 prize money: How much winner will take home from £502,000 pot?

The 2025 British Open will conclude with a major final on Sunday (September 28), with a whopping £100,000 on offer to the winner of the final match

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1 week ago Strictly Come Dancing fans predict history repeating as 2025 winner 'revealed'

Strictly Come Dancing fans have predicted the 2025 winner already

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