“Stories were so important in the world, and I wanted to make up some of these stories.” The 2013 Nobel Lecture in Literature this year is replaced by a pre-recorded video conversation with Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate in Literature.
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In this segment of The Writer’s Block, the acclaimed Egyptian author and journalist Hamdy El-Gazzar discusses writing poetry, incorporating sex as a theme in his work, and the importance of letting the spirit of a text live in translation. El-Gazzar is also Sampsonia Way‘s Egypt columnist.
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A poignant message delivered by the poet Maya Angelou on behalf of the American people in memory of Nelson Mandela who died on December 5.
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In this interview, Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka talks about his most celebrated characters and plays and how one character was inspired by his “Wild Christian” mother and another by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
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First sentenced in 2011 to life in prison for purportedly criticizing the emir in his poem “Tunisian Jasmine”, Qatari poet Mohammed al-Ajami had his reduced 15-year prison sentence upheld by the Court of Cassation in appeal this October.
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Considering which of Alice Munro’s stories to read can feel something like considering what to eat from an enormous box of chocolates. Here’s a partial guide to the work of the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Making a spot-lit entrance on a balcony over Sampsonia Way, Swami reads three poems as she walks down the street, backed by a jazz band featuring Oliver Lake and Dee Alexander and her Trio, at City of Asylum Pittsburgh’s 9th annual Jazz Poetry Concert.
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