Topic: Poetry
PARIS (Reuters) - The man who nurtured a generation of aspiring writers at a rickety English-language bookstore in Paris, offering supper and a bed to literature fans providing they dusted the shelves or penned their memoirs, has died aged 98.George Whitman, an ...
The painstaking restoration of Venice's famed Bridge of Sighs and the facade of the adjoining Doge's Palace is finally finished after three years of work, officials said on Thursday.The restoration project -- which was launched after a piece of marble fell off ...
A traditional form of weaving by Bedouin women and a healing prayer sung by Peru's Huachipaire people were added Friday to UNESCO's list of "intangible heritage" in need of preservation.In all, envoys on Indonesia's resort island of Bali this week picked 11 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Award-winning poet Ruth Stone, who drew imagery and inspiration from the natural sciences, has died at age 96 in Vermont, her daughter said on Thursday.Stone, who won the National Book Award in 2002 for her collection of poems "In ...
(Reuters) - First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday helped launched a new arts program to pick five student poets from high schools who will spend one year promoting poetry through readings, workshops and other activities.The National Student Poets program is created by ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Julian Barnes, who won this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's poet laureate, were among the nominees for the 2011 Costa Book Awards announced on Tuesday.English author Barnes is one of four shortlisted for ...
US punk rock poet Patti Smith led a celebration Thursday in memory of Arthur Rimbaud, in the home town of the French poet who died 120 years ago.Smith, a life-long devotee of the symbolist French genius, said Rimbaud remained the eternal poet ...
(Reuters) - Organizers for the National Book Awards on Wednesday announced the 20 finalists for 2011's honors, which are among the most prestigious in U.S. publishing.Winners in four categories -- fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature -- will be announced at ...
Indian musician and composer Jagjit Singh, who won generations of fans by reviving the traditional genre of "ghazal" tunes, died on Monday in Mumbai at the age of 70, hospital officials said.Singh, dubbed "The Ghazal King", had been in intensive care for ...
Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer, whose simple but mystical imagery addresses themes of nature, history and death, won the 2011 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday.Transtroemer, 80, was honoured "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality," the Swedish ...
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