NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Herta Muller
The judges, apparently, could not help themselves. Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too "Eurocentric,"...
The judges, apparently, could not help themselves. Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too "Eurocentric,"...
The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this morning to Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German poet and novelist, "who," stated the Swedish Acad...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment
Five-time Grammy winner, Mary Chapin Carpenter is still raving about the experience she had performing with Kate Campbell, Claire Holley and Caroline Herring at the Eudora Welty Centennial Concert.
Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media
The Nobel Prize in Literature is just one example of a larger and more interesting phenomenon: how elite gate-keeping institutions are influenced by personal connections.
Scott Tomford | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media
Thursday morning, somebody will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature... and that somebody probably won't be American.
Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media
Was there a Ugandan Space Program? There is no online evidence that I can find, and the whole thing sounds kind of dodgy.
AP | MALIN RISING and HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.31.2008 | Media
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week: the top member of the award jury believes the United State...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books