Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Nobel Literature Laureate Imre Kertesz Dies at 86

Nobel Literature Laureate Imre Kertesz Dies at 86


Imre Kertesz, the Hungarian writer who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature for fiction largely drawn from his very real experience as a teenage prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, has died. He was 86.










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Friday, November 13, 2015

The Literature of Slaves

The Literature of Slaves


A professor writes that those who recounted their experience of enslavement “provided an effective riposte to an elaborate pro-slavery argument.”


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Monday, October 19, 2015

Nigeria’s Literature of Love

Nigeria’s Literature of Love


Some Muslim women in northern Nigeria have found opportunity — and popularity — writing romance novels that show how their young heroines come of age.


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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Nobel Prize for literature to be awarded Thursday

Nobel Prize for literature to be awarded Thursday













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