Striding the Borderlands: Charles Ferdinand Ramuz’s Great Fear on the Mountain, by Alice-Catherine Carls Book Reviews [email protected] Thu, 09/05/2024 - 14:03 Caroline Cingria, C. F. Ramuz, pastel (1903) / Images courtesy of Noël CordonierLumen... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-09-05 19:03:58 UTC ]
She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, with the Academy saying she could "accommodate the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages." Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-14 16:57:50 UTC ]
Kahneman's 2011 bestseller 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' exposed the psychological underpinnings of economic decision-making, and his research—much of it conducted with fellow psychologist Amos Tversky—earned him a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium — these foundational materials are literally what the modern world is built on. Without sand for glass, say goodbye to our fiber optic internet. No copper means no conductive wiring. And a world without lithium is a world without rechargeable... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-12-24 15:30:10 UTC ]
Those Who Create Desire an Audience: A Conversation with Darlington Chibueze Anuonye, by Anthony Chibueze Ukwuoma Interviews [email protected] Tue, 11/28/2023 - 15:31 Darlington Chibueze Anuonye and his mother, July 2005, on the occasion of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-11-28 21:31:59 UTC ]
“The first condition is silence,” says the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose most recent book is “The Young Man.” “The when and where do not matter.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-09 19:42:28 UTC ]
The celebrated American poet and winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature died on October 13 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
We look back on our 1996 interview with French author Annie Ernaux, who was named the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
This morning, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.” Annie Ernaux is the author of some twenty works of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-06 11:09:56 UTC ]
When Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize in literature last year, not nearly enough people had read anything by the Tanzanian-born writer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-23 16:53:54 UTC ]
The times they are a-changin’: Bob Dylan’s first book in eighteen years is coming out this November via Simon & Schuster. It will be Dylan’s first published book since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. According to Simon & Schuster, The Philosophy of Modern Song is a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-03-09 17:15:40 UTC ]
His novels and short stories are populated with refugees from war, colonialism and historical injustice Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2021-10-07 16:46:03 UTC ]
The Swedish Academy awarded the prize to the Tanzanian author whose English-language novels include “Paradise,” “By the Sea” and “Desertion.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-07 11:03:10 UTC ]
The U.K.-based English-language Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” He is the fifth... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Carlo Collodi’s version of Donkey Skin, by French author Charles Perrault, will appear in a new collection of Italian fairytalesCarlo Collodi is remembered today for Pinocchio, his 1881 children’s story about a puppet who turns into a real boy, immortalised on screen by Disney. Now another... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-10-01 13:46:15 UTC ]
The Nigerian writer, the first sub-Saharan winner of the Nobel Prize, discusses 'Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-09-23 13:00:36 UTC ]
Created in 2011, Sci-Hub is the largest free repository of scholarly articles in the world. Or rather, it is the largest shadow library of pirated articles that exists. And its creator, Kazakh researcher Alexandra Elbakyan deserves a Nobel Prize for her work as a modern Robin Hood. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-04 12:32:57 UTC ]
Walter Isaacson's 'The Code Breaker,' about Nobel Prize–winning CRISPR chemist Jennifer Doudna, is the #5 book in the country. Plus the heroine of Kate Quinn's latest historical cracks 'The Rose Code,' and Floret Farm's Erin Benzakein says it with dahlias. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Ishiguro’s first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in 2017 is a delicate, haunting story, steeped in sorrow and hope. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-02 16:46:21 UTC ]
Many have highlighted the potential benefits of reading translated literature, and with novels like Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, it seems that translated works are performing better than ever. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 00:35:04 UTC ]