Since the first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901, controversy has surrounded the prize, the laureates and their Nobel lectures, often relating to political engagement or lack thereof.

A SERIES of free lectures exploring various aspects of English Literature is to get underway next week. Postgraduate students at Durham University have organised the eight-lecture series which is ...

World Literature lecture series: 6:30 p.m. Monday, Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Attend a series of lectures on authors from around the world, presented by faculty from CU Boulder and ...

Mr. Ebenezer Charlton Black, late of the University of Edinburgh, is delivering a course of twenty lectures on English Literature, in Sever 11, on Monday evenings at 7.30. The lectures are open to the ...

Six months after Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature at a ceremony he did not attend, the songwriter has fulfilled the award’s criteria by delivering a lecture on the topic to the Swedish ...

The 13th biennial meeting of the Overseas Chinese Women Writers’ Association will open on Oct 25 at Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian province. The meeting will be attended by more than 100 overseas ...

Panjab University's Department of Guru Nanak Sikh Studies organized two special lectures by scholars, M M Gupta, professor of Economics Dean, Arts Faculty, Kurukshetra University and Satish Kumar ...

The Nobel laureate in literature makes the case that his songs are at least grounded in a literary tradition. Bob Dylan is not overly endowed with humility: “I was heading for the fantastic lights. No ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On Barbara McCaskill’s office door is an old photograph postcard of Ray Charles ...

What with the recent announcement of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature (congrats, Doris Lessing!), we’ve lately been reading the New Press’s timely collection of literature-laureate lectures from the ...