Her 1932 novel, The Fellows (Die Gefährten), which warned of the dangers of National Socialism, had led to her arrest by the Gestapo. In 1947, The Seventh Cross received the Georg Büchner Prize, one of Germany’s highest literary honors....
PRIZE FIGHT PRIZES, AND THE FISTICUFFS THEY INSPIRE, MAY BE MORE CENTRAL TO THE LITERARY-VALUE GAME THAN MOST OF US CARE TO THINK.Christopher Shea
(CHINA DAILY Oct.20th,2016)It doesn't seem that US singer Bob Dylan has much in common with literary mavens(内行)like Ernest Hemingway and T.S.Elliot.But,last week,these three figures became forever bonded(粘合的)by the Nobel Prize for Literature.This year's prize makes Dylan the first...
Some months ago, I had the pleasure of hearing literary translator, Avery Fischer Udagawa, read an excerpt fromJ-Boys(ages 10 and up), a refreshingly unique, memoir-style middle grade novel set in post-war Tokyo. I was so taken by the reading that I vowed to track down the book to ...
You are aware the literary prize named after Wilder was renamed because she was istophobic, right? https://pioneergirlproject.org/2018/07/03/on-the-ala-and-the-laura-ingalls-wilder-award/ BobtheRegisterredFool says: February 17, 2022 at 5:27 pm Yup. I have no use for the people wh...
In addition to the grand prize, Hoffer honors are bestowed by press type and category, and also through the Montaigne Medal, da Vinci Eye, and First Horizon Award. Coverage of the the Hoffer is updated in May when the results are released to the public. You can view the Hoffer Award ...
“I like to check in from time to time with 3 Quarks Daily.”—Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. “One of the most celebrated writers of his generation,” according to theVirginia Quarterly Review. “I have placed 3 Quarks Daily at the head of my list of web bookmarks.”...
Somewhat sadly, I'm not always really sure that we [in Old English studies] are really beyond the often acrimonious debates of the early 1990's, nor do I think the field as a whole has moved as far forward [theoretically] as one might have hoped while reading the early work of scholar...
Statius was one of the principal Roman epic and lyric poets of the Silver Age of Latin literature (ad 18–133). His occasional poems, collected under the title Silvae (“Forests”), apart from their literary merit, are valuable for their description of t
LONDON (AP) — A mauling of Martin Amis and a savaging of Salman Rushdie are in the running for the best bad book review of 2012. Eight finalists were announced Tuesday for the Hatchet Job of the Year Award, a prize set up to reward scathing works of literary journalism. [READ: Two...