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.
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.”
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.
