An archivist at the British Film Institute has stumbled across a 1901 movie just one minute long which turns out to be the earliest surviving film featuring a character from the works of Charles Dickens.
2012 marks the end of the world, the presidential election — dubbed the most idiotic of all time — and a flurry of strange global warming -induced weather. It’s also the beginning of a new online microblogging community, Tumblr, that’s becoming a vehicle for writers to show the world their writing.
Flavorwire.com compiles a list of ten of the most powerful female characters in literature, The choices may surprise you.
Some Australians believe formalizing a “literary canon” stifles a national literature that should accurately reflect an openness to change and reassessment.
A new festival celebrating Wales’ literature and landscape, has announced its first line-up of guests: writer Howard Marks, musicians Julian Cope and Gruff Rhys and poets Sir Andrew Motion and Gillian Clarke, held in June at Dinefwr Park and Castle in Carmarthenshire.
Author reveals that Literature played an important role in the armed and political struggle of the Eritrea, located on the horn of Africa, with oral poems playing prominently in mobilizing the people against danger.
While some folks find Dante Alighieri of Florence’s epic poem, “The Divine Comedy” offensive or discriminatory, it actually provides a rare insight into how people saw each other back then. Besides, you would no more try to ban it from classrooms than you’d ban “The Merchant of Venice .”
The Sultan of Oman recently launched the Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Arts and Literature. An annual competition, the winner will receive 50,000 rials.
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