literature
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An author winning the Nobel Prize in literature is about as big a bonanza of demand as you can imagine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
"Preserving Homer's legacy is a duty we owe to humanity. He is one of the founding fathers of literature," Bornova Mayor Omer Eski told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
A comparative literature professor at Stanford University, his forthcoming book, “What Tech Calls Governing,” examines the increasingly authoritarian politics of Silicon Valley.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
English language and literature entries increased by 23.3%, Welsh language was up 42.7%, while German, from a small base, increased by 59.4%.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
This year, Momma decided to go back to school to get her master’s in English literature.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
Mr. Morson, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University, is the author of “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Kuang, a best-selling fantasy writer and doctoral student in East Asian languages and literatures at Yale, said this while sitting in a sunny office at the headquarters of her publisher, HarperCollins.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
He has a doctorate in Hispanic languages and literatures from UC Berkeley and a master of fine arts in poetry from UC Davis, where he is a professor in the department of Chicana/Chicano studies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
Many early pages chronicle the poet’s youthful Wanderjahre in Europe, but almost nothing is said about his 25 years as a Harvard professor of European languages and literatures.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020
Every inch of visible surface of the board had been decorated, with four somewhat gorgeous-looking columns of quotations from a variety of the world’s literatures.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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