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- Biographical Research on Czeslaw Milosz, Lithuanian Nobel Laureate 3 Jul 2009 18:02 GMT
... Biographical Research on Czeslaw Milosz, Lithuanian Nobel Laureate Reprinted from the Lithuanian e-zine, LABAS, ... Milosz, who abhorred totalitarianism, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, as Solidarity worker protests were ...
- A post-colonial classic from a Nobel laureate 3 Jul 2009 11:11 GMT
... post-colonial canvas. in the 1970s, was knighted in the 1980s and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. The 20 titles in the Lifetime Reads collection of modern classics (see ...
- On Life And Death [opinion] 3 Jul 2009 05:10 GMT
... so would you. Albert Camus, the French philosopher, journalist and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature, argues that humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince themselves that ...
- Open Letter to Obama on Liberty in Russia 3 Jul 2009 04:24 GMT
... which allow for the criminalization of religious literature and activities, and for the dissolution of ... The Institute -- twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize -- works globally to promote fundamental rights ...
- Why South Should Isolate the North 2 Jul 2009 07:12 GMT
... the said policy helped win him the Nobel Peace Prize). It attempted to recognize the humanity of ... Myers holds a master's degree in English literature and literary theory and is currently an ...
- Nobel Prize-winning author criticizes Quebec's new hydro project 2 Jul 2009 02:10 GMT
... Nobel Prize-winning author criticizes Quebec's new hydro project PARIS ... The French author, who received the Nobel literature prize in 2008, decried the impact the ...
- Everyday is special - 02 July 2009 2 Jul 2009 00:11 GMT
... birthday of German poet and novelist Herman Hesse (1877-1962). In 1946 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best known works include “Steppenwolf,” “Siddhartha” and “The Glass Bead Game” (also known ...
- Borges and the Jews-Part III 1 Jul 2009 15:12 GMT
... by Kafka in his Anthology of Fantastic Literature (1940), co-edited with Adolfo Bioy Casares and ... long time that they have forgotten what prize was to be. Even the rules of ... a year after Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize, which he shared with the German ...
- Boston University Extends Helping Hand 1 Jul 2009 09:31 GMT
... Medical Center. ● There are currently three Nobel Prize winners teaching at Boston University: Sheldon Glashow ... (2008, Chemistry). ● Professor Derek Walcott (1992, Literature) retired from teaching in the Creative Writing ...
- Should Obama Try to Reset the Planet's Thermostat? 1 Jul 2009 03:30 GMT
... geoengineering is relatively new. In 2006, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist named Paul J. Crutzen reignited the ... to tinker with the planet's thermostat. (In literature, climate modification schemes in classics like Homer's ...
- Economist Cheng Enfu talks about contemporary Marxism and China 1 Jul 2009 02:31 GMT
... pollution. Professor Cheng also said that the Nobel Prize Committee in social science award is not ... there is political tendency in peace and literature awards. Even in economics, it is also ...
- Bosphorus University decorates Yaar Kemal with honorary doctorate degree 30 Jun 2009 11:40 GMT
... Kemal is the first window of Turkish literature to the world and is one of ... has long been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, on the strength of "Memed, ...
- A poetic masterpiece that must be heard 30 Jun 2009 09:12 GMT
... the nerves" and thus it disturbs. According to the committee that awarded him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948, it cuts into our "consciousness with the sharpness of a diamond". Beware ...
- Liu Xiaobo and China's Future 27 Jun 2009 17:31 GMT
... on the Internet. A former professor of literature who headed the Chinese section of the ... defenders, lawyers and writers -- including three Nobel Prize winners -- sent Chinese President Hu Jintao ...
- Humane hanging and other stories 26 Jun 2009 23:50 GMT
... school of engineering. Ireland can boast four Nobel prizes in literature but just one in science: Ernest Walton ... science: Ernest Walton (1903-1995) shared the physics prize in 1951 for splitting the atom, work ...
- One more child ruined by war 26 Jun 2009 22:30 GMT
... protested against Suu Kyi's imprisonment. Though the Nobel Peace Prize laureate remains Myanmar's most famous political figure, ... contribution to the growing body of war-child literature Little Daughter is not a literary memoir; ...
- Full J. Z. Smith interview 26 Jun 2009 21:10 GMT
... that religious tradition haven't read all the literature of that tradition, that they get told ... making those decisions. It's better than a Nobel Prize, it's the most important thing we do. ...
- Fair game 26 Jun 2009 11:30 GMT
... Sweden and its neighbouring countries, the fair is as much about celebrating and promoting literature as it is about the trade. In the homeland of the Nobel Prize, it claims to be the only fair to have had a past or eventual ...
- Top IBM Japan researcher Chieko Asakawa awarded prestigious Fellow title 26 Jun 2009 10:12 GMT
... Japanese to hold the title -- following Nobel Prize for Physics holder Leo Esaki -- and ... years old. The determined Asakawa studied English literature in university using Braille, gaining a keen ...
- British-Armenian Parliamentary Group calls on official London to recognize Armenian Genocide 26 Jun 2009 06:51 GMT
... 2000, 126 leading scholars of Holocaust including Nobel Prize laureate Eliе Wiesel placed a statement in ... of dollars on publishing false and defamatory literature and sponsoring academic studies to deny the ...
- How Nigeria Viciously Undermined Election 2008 26 Jun 2009 04:20 GMT
... that back in the days when Chief Dzelukope doubled as Gen. Abacha’s “spin-meister,” Nigeria’s Nobel Literature Prize-laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, added his voice and considerable weight to that of those on ...
- Turkish author acquitted of insulting Islam - TV 25 Jun 2009 15:11 GMT
... of the court cases brought against writers or journalists have resulted in prison sentences. Nobel Literature Prize winner Orhan Pamuk went on trial for "insulting Turkishness" when he told a Swiss ...
- Albanian Writer Awarded Prince of Asturias Prize 25 Jun 2009 06:31 GMT
... Albanian Writer Awarded Prince of Asturias Prize World renowned Albanian writer Ismail Kadare was ... Kadare, who "represents the summit of Albanian literature, ... has crossed frontiers to rise into ... subtle allegories. A perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature, his novels and essays ...
- Kelly, Mary Pat 24 Jun 2009 22:11 GMT
... on. Kelly holds a Ph.D. in Irish literature and is a frequent contributor to Irish ... To Live for Ireland, a portrait of Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume and Home Away from ...
- Albanian writer Ismail Kadare wins Spanish Asturias prize for literature 24 Jun 2009 17:30 GMT
... Albanian writer Ismail Kadare wins Spanish Asturias prize for literature MADRID - Albanian writer Ismail Kadare was ... The Concert." A regular nominee for the Nobel literature prize, Kadare won the first International ...
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