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- Ben Jelloun joins the Goncourt (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun, a well-known figure in both Moroccan and French cultural circles, took a step closer to the heart of the French literary establishment early last month when he was elected a member of the jury of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize and one of Europe's oldest.
- Sharing Japanese poetry with the rest of the world (The Japan Times)
EARTH PILGRIMAGE/PELLEGRINO TERRESTRE/CHIKYU JUNREI by Ban'ya Natsuishi, English translations by the author and Jim Kacian, Italian by Luca Toma. Milan, Italy: Albalibre, 2007, 146 pp., 10.00 euro (paper) It must be true, surely, that much of the understanding of Japanese culture held by people outside this country is randomly formed. Of course there will be influence from ideas circulating in ...
- Exhibitions at National Arts Festival - ArtslinkNews
Exhibitions at National Arts FestivalArtslinkNews, South Africa - 1 hour agoEach has drawn from her or his own linguistic memory bank Setswana, Xhosa and North American poetry are among the words that are entwined in the work. ...
- Calls for end to Saudi child marriages - International Herald Tribune
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia : An 11-year-old boy gave out invitations to his classmates for a big event his family was planning this summer — and it wasn't his birthday party. It was his wedding to a 10-year-old cousin. Muhammad al-Rashidi's marriage was ...
- Chattanooga: Carter ends presidency at hometown convention - Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chattanooga: Carter ends presidency at hometown conventionChattanooga Times Free Press, TN - 3 hours ago“Any group that has ‘African American’ in the title is thought of being only for African Americans,†Mr. Carter said. “We are about African-American music ...
- Glasgow University honours authors - The Herald
Glasgow University honours authorsThe Herald, UK - 1 hour agoShe won the Somerset Maugham Award for a poetry collection called Other Lovers, and the Guardian Fiction Prize for the novel Trumpet, before being awarded ...
- Pop culture's fabled green elixer now trendy, potent and legal in US - NWI.com
It's no coincidence that in just the past week, I've received two publicist pitches promoting the return of absinthe, that green liquor potion portrayed in movies and pop culture as mind-altering. ( Graphic ) In the 1952 classic film MGM musical ...
- Poet David Garrison to lead free poetry workshop - Wilmington News Journal, OH
Poet David Garrison to lead free poetry workshopWilmington News Journal, OH, OH - 4 hours agoThe Wilmington Writers Collaborative will be hosting a poetry workshop on Thursday, Sept. 18th, at 6:45 pm to be led by Professor David Lee Garrison. ...
- Poet's new leaf in Good Book - Inner West Weekly
Poet's new leaf in Good BookInner West Weekly, Australia - 1 hour agoAs a young man, Donne was a rebel and a womaniser who wrote erotic poetry. Later in life he settled down. Although Donne was raised a Catholic he converted ...
- What's Going On - Oneonta Daily Star
What's Going OnOneonta Daily Star, NY - 2 hours agoOneonta Teen Center, 3 to 6 pm, Asa Allison Municipal Building, 4 Academy St. For info: oneontateencenter@yahoo.com, ...
- Anne Hathaway: What George Clooney taught me - Daily Mail
Daily MailAnne Hathaway: What George Clooney taught meDaily Mail, UK - 7 minutes agoI write terrible poetry but it feels nice to do it. And I’ma terrible, terrible painter, too.’ It's almost impossible to get Anne to say anything positive ...
- 'Othello' -- without any tricks -- retains power - Albany Times Union
'Othello' -- without any tricks -- retains powerAlbany Times Union, NY - 8 hours agoAnd it absolutely clearly spoken while retaining Shakespeare's essential poetry. The text work that S&C is known for shines here, with lead actors John ...
- QUICK CLICKS: Local news briefs for Sunday, Aug. 10 (Waco Tribune-Herald)
First Community Bank Central Texas is sponsoring the 20th Annual Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce Kick Off Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 21 at the Waco Convention Center, 100 Washington Ave.
- Suits — Not Steroids — Skew Olympic Swimming - New York Times Blogs
Most swimmers competing in the Bejing Olympics this summer believe they will fail without a new $600 swimsuit, The Economist reports . In February Speedo introduced its LZR swimsuit and 38 of the 42 world swimming records broken since then were by ...
- Slammin' Two Twin Cities teams have a shot at glory at the ... - Pioneer Press
Slammin' Two Twin Cities teams have a shot at glory at the ...Pioneer Press, MN - 25 minutes agoBy Trisha Collopy For spoken-word poets, the National Poetry Slam is the big enchilada — their moment in the spotlight, their shot at glory, an event that's ...
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