SOURCE: THE INDIAN EXPRESS

The prestigious award goes to the cultural theorist and literary critic for her “critique of structures of power and knowledge in an unequal world”

Gayatri Spivak, celebrated literary critic and postcolonial scholar, has won the 2025 Holberg Prize, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the field of humanities, social sciences, law or theology research. The prize carries a $5,40,000 cash prize.

Spivak’s “critique of structures of power and knowledge in an unequal world” and efforts to combat “illiteracy in marginalised rural communities across several countries” make her a “highly worthy recipient of the prize” reads the citation note.