writers
Poetry: ‘The Next’
October 13, 2021A new poem from Chris Butters.
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Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
October 8, 2021The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.”
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New U.S. stamp honors principled sci-fi and fantasy writer Ursula Le Guin
August 19, 2021The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has honored the cross-genre writings of Ursula K. Le Guin, the acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author, with the 33rd stamp in its literary series. The stamp was released on July...
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On her 80th birthday: Margaret Atwood points the way toward a new humanity
November 18, 2019Margaret Atwood has written several novels that explore dystopian situations or circumstances where people are subjected to control and violence.
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Exposing capitalism’s exploitative nature: The life and writings of B. Traven
April 2, 2019Traven is one of the most widely read working-class writers of the 20th century.
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