Literature
Dario Fo – Biographical
Biographical
In addition to playwright, Dario Fo is also director, stage and costume designer, and on occasion he even composes the music for his plays. France Rame, his leading actress, has assisted in and contributed to the writing of many of the plays they have produced in their 45 years of theatre together. She has also…
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Tagore and his India
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Tagore and his India by This article was published on 28 August 2001. Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Literature
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by Kjell Espmark Nobel’s will and the Literature Prize Among the five prizes provided for in (1895), one was intended for the person who, in the literary field, had produced “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”. The Laureate should be determined by “the Academy in Stockholm”, which was specified by the statutes of…
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