Norway's Petterson bags 100,000 euro book prize
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Norwegian author Per Petterson and his translator Anne Born won the world's richest literary prize for a single work of fiction in English on Thursday for the novel "Out Stealing Horses".
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Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian novelist and playwright whose work provocatively explores gender issues and power relationships in contemporary society, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature yesterday. She is the 10th woman to receive the literature prize in its 103-year history.
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Business & money: Once a country of fishermen struggling through the Arctic winter, Norway is now a land of millionaires.
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Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a reclusive author whose feminism, leftist politics and pacifism are common themes in her works, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what the Swedish Academy called her &quot;musical flow of voices and counter
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STOCKHOLM, OCTOBER 7: Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek, regarded as controversial and abrasive for her attacks on the Austrian establishment was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
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OBIHIRO - Norwegian Petter Solberg on Sunday won the inaugural Rally of Japan, a race he dominated from start to finish. Solberg in a Citroen Xsara finished well clear of Sebastien Loeb (Citroen Xsara) of
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Reclusive Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek received her Nobel literature prize at the Swedish embassy in Vienna on Friday, as a "social phobia" illness has kept her from traveling to Stockholm.
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Austria&#39;s Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for novels and plays that starkly depict violence against women, explore sexuality and condemn far-right politics in Europe.
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Steffen Iversen&#39;s penalty in the 55th minute lifted Norway to a 1-0 victory Saturday over Scotland in their Group 5 World Cup qualifying group.
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Austria's Elfriede Jelinek won the  Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for novels and plays  that starkly depict violence against women, explore sexuality  and condemn far-right politics in Europe.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- A Norwegian and an American have jointly been awarded the 2004 Nobel prize for economics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday that Finn Kydland of Norway and Edward Prescott
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Austrian feminist writer Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays."   The decision to award the prize to a woman, and a poet, was the first since 1996, when Wislawa Szymborska of Poland won. Since the prize first was handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it...
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Finn E Kydland, who shared the Nobel Prize in economics last week, makes lots of references to his modest upbringing on Norway's west coast.
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Sweden's Carl Pettersson surged one-shot clear of the field following a flawless third-round 64 at the Arizona Open on Saturday.
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HAVRE DE GRACE, Maryland  - Norway's Suzann Pettersen returned a five-under 67 to claim a one-shot victory over Australian Karrie Webb at the LPGA Championship on Sunday and lift her first major title.
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A Finn who helped mediate peace in Indonesia is tipped to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, while bookmakers favor a Turkish novelist for the literature award.
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Berlin, Germany - Soon after claiming athletics&#39; biggest single financial award this year, Christian Olsson offered perhaps the understatement of the year.