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RTÉ launches Ireland's Greatest Figures
(22 Mar 2010 10:51)
... Irish life: sport, politics, music, arts and literature. Votes can be cast at a dedicated ... (1939) Poet, Writer and Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 15. John Hume (1937) Politician ...
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Toni Morrison leads a true 'write' of passage for black authors
(22 Mar 2010 03:32)
... another Brooklyn celebration of the arts and letters, Morrison, who was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for her novel, “Beloved,” headlines Medgar Evers College’s 10th ...
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Book review: The Notebook
(22 Mar 2010 00:52)
... their work translated. But then even fewer have, like Jos Saramago, been awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Actually, this blog, a record running from September 2008 to the last day of ...
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Graphic novels reach universities' hallowed halls
(22 Mar 2010 03:30)
... alone cannot is a form of literature that is rightly popular and now university-respectable. ... now university-respectable. Art Spiegelmans Maus (1986), a Pulitzer-prize winning memoir of the authors parents survival ... him from seeing Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader of the ...
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Spy fears drove Nobel laureate to proofread in forest
(21 Mar 2010 11:11)
... Leipzig - Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller used to meet her German proof-reader in the forest to hide ...
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Nobel Prize winner Lessing says 9/11 not that terrible
(18 Mar 2010 13:22)
... Doris Lessing, this years Nobel Prize winner for Literature, has said that the 9/11 attacks across the United States were no more devastating ...
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Leipzig Book Fair opens with prize for Hungarian author Dalos
(18 Mar 2010 09:53)
... was presented late Wednesday with the 15,000-euro Prize for European Understanding, in particular recognition of ... and 1,500 authors - including the 2009 Nobel literature prize winner, German-Romanian author Herta Mueller, and ...
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Leipzig Book Fair opens with prize for Hungarian author
(18 Mar 2010 23:04)
... presented late on Wednesday with the 15,000-euro Prize for European Understanding, in particular recognition of ... and 1,500 authors - including the 2009 Nobel literature prize winner, German-Romanian author Herta Mueller, and ...
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www.orld peace?
(19 Mar 2010 11:12)
... can one explain the longest-ever list of Nobel Peace Prize nominees - 237 to be precise - ... Nobel list and the Kindle demanding a Literature Nobel, or at least a Booker. In ...
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Miguel Delibes, Prolific Spanish Writer, Dies at 89
(18 Mar 2010 06:01)
... 1948. It earned him the distinguished Nadal Prize and catapulted him to fame. Between 1958 ... for Literature, often described as the Spanish Nobel Prize; and the National Literature Award. In 1973 he was inducted into ...
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We Are All Journalists
(17 Mar 2010 15:16)
... photograph on the back cover. Its a good book and the author won the Nobel Prize for literature. That did not impress Itzhak, especially as he did not know anything of the ...
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Test your knowledge of women's history
(17 Mar 2010 16:45)
... Franklin D. Roosevelt? 2. What woman was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature? 3. What Black woman refused to give up her seat to a ...
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Tehran Halts Travel By Poet Called 'Lioness Of Iran'
(17 Mar 2010 18:43)
... travel, says Farzaneh Milani, who teaches Persian literature at the University of Virginia and is ... Behbahani has been nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in literature, and she has received many ...
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Everyday is special - 16 March 2010
(16 Mar 2010 01:15)
... Bertolucci was born, the Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlf (1858-1940), died. Known internationally for The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, ...
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The beautiful loneliness of writing
(18 Mar 2010 18:42)
... youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize with her second work, The Inheritance of ... found the companionship of another author, the Nobel Prize winning Orhan Pamuk. Desai is equally ... nevertheless relate to shared problems of baldness. Literature provides a similar avenue for identification, said ...
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