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literature

[lit-er-uh-cher, -choor, li-truh-] / ˈlɪt ər ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, ˈlɪ trə- /


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A: Literature is a tremendous asset for Central America.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Ms. Altenberg is an author and a Fellow of the Linnean Society and the Royal Society of Literature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The research, led by Clough, a recent doctoral graduate, was published in RSC Analytical Methods and supported by the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts' Meet the Moment Research Initiative.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

“Damnation” marked Tarr’s first collaboration with his friend László Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist and 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature winner.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

A whale looks like a big fish; Obama has been the subject of rumors about his religion; Nabokov was denied the Nobel Prize in Literature that many critics thought he deserved.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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