“Like the dead‑seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.” So begins with an intense, undeniable beauty the memoir of one of America’s great writers, Zora Neale Hurston. I read her 1942 autobiography, Dust... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-10-05 09:00:52 UTC ]
“Everything she wrote then matters now,” says the novelist, whose latest book is “The Good Left Undone.” “The great writers can see into the future.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-04-28 12:20:08 UTC ]
News and Events WLT Photo by J. Foley Opale World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Wednesday evening that Ismail Kadare is the 26th laureate of the renowned... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-10-16 22:21:35 UTC ]
Earlier this year, Felice Cavallaro, a highly regarded journalist from the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, launched the Road of Writers—a project to rediscover and celebrate Sicily’s great writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
There is no need to turn to the US for great writers, the publisher of one of the Folio Prize-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]