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March 8 was International Women’s Day. This list gives a brief background into the 13 women who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its start in 1901.
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Lit Lists
- March 12, 2015
- March 6, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews To kick off National Reading Month, Time magazine compiled a list of 15 life-changing books you can read in one day. Over 150 international poets, authors, and t…
- February 27, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews A historian unearthed new work from Sherlock Holmes found in his attic. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the short story as a fundraiser to help save a town bridge. The U.S.…
- February 20, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Turns out Harper Lee isn't the only one with unpublished manuscripts. Three more works by Dr…
- February 13, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews The Israel Prize for Literature might not be granted this year because all of the judges resigned to protest the Prime Minister’s Office. The Folio Prize…
- February 6, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Up at Words Without Borders this week, Suzanne Jill Levine remembers all of the times she sat down to dinner with Pablo Neruda over his lifetime…
- January 30, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews To celebrate the start of political relations between the United States and Cuba, Restless Books has begun a new blog series asking Cuban writers what it…
- January 23, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews This week, author Valeria Luiselli sat down with NPR to talk about why she chooses to have her work translated, despite being bilingual. (Luiselli’s fort…
- January 16, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews We want to send our congratulations to all of the recipients of this year’s Hemingway Grant, recognizing excellence in French literature translation. Ahe…
- January 9, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews In an announcement before the holidays, the Anton Chekhov Foundation revealed that it is working to translate over 500 of Chekhov’s earliest works into E…
- December 19, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews Libyan poet and translator Khaled Mattawa was recently announced as one of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipients, and in an interview with NPR…
- December 12, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews An exciting new discovery was recently made in Northern China: a tomb, dated approximately 1,000 years old, contained no human remains, but was filled wi…
December 10, 2014Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is an excellent example of how children and the compelling worlds of science fiction mix together brilliantly. After all, the children of today are the leaders…
December 7, 2014On this day seventy-three years ago, the Japanese attacked the American military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, successfully provoking the United States to enter a war that had already been occupying t…- December 5, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews We sadly note the passing of two literary greats this week: first, former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand, who passed away at the age of 80; second, Egypt…
November 21, 20142014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia Couto News, Reviews, and Interviews Last weekend, PEN International asked the international literary community to stand in solidarit…
November 14, 2014Photo by Joede Sousa News, Reviews, and Interviews This week, the world remembered the fall of the Berlin Wall, which took place 25 years ago on November 9, 1989. Th…
November 7, 2014Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun Williams News, Reviews, and Interviews Maaza Mengiste spoke with Mantle contributor Emmanuel Iduma this week about her phot…
October 31, 2014Mia Couto receiving the Neustadt feather. Photo by Vanesssa Rudloff. Thank you to all of our readers who supported the 2014 Neustadt Festival last week! It was a wonderful celebration of Mia Couto an…- October 17, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews Join us in congratulating Patrick Modiano for winning this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature! Last week, publishing giant HarperCollins announced a new v…
- October 10, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews French novelist Patrick Modiano has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Last week, Laila Lalami spoke to NPR about her new novel, The Moor’s…
- October 3, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews Writing for the Kenyon Review, Libyan poet Khaled Mattawa guides readers through the process of inspiration, translation, and writing poetry. Th…
- September 26, 2014This week, readers everywhere (us included) celebrated Banned Books Week, which celebrates the freedom to read and authors whose books have been challenged, banned, and censored because of their conte…
September 23, 2014Photo by Nèg Foto Whether you’re looking for a quick escape on your midday break or a quiet lunch with that always entertaining friend, literature, this list includes five short works of fiction that…- September 19, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews In one of the most controversial articles to circle the web recently, NPR writer and critic Juan Vidal wonders what has happened to political poets. (For…
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