Today, the Holberg Prize—one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the ...

One literary rival said of Ernest Hemingway, “He has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to ...

Each laureate was then announced and presented with their award. In her speech, Widding described this year's literature laureate as a writer who "deeply explores human frailty against the ...

Laura Tohe, poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, has published books of poetry, oral histories and even librettos for decades, ...

Gurnah was only the sixth Nobel literature laureate born in Africa, and the prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers. It is also male-dominated ...

St. Louis is looking for its next bard. The city offers established poets the chance to be St. Louis' poet laureate. The ...

Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd, a distinguished professor, has been named Michigan's third poet laureate. Boyd is an award-winning author with 13 published books and a passion for promoting poetry.

There has been ferment among the literati since Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many say that however well Dylan does what he does, it is not literature. Dylan did not go to ...

Patrick Conley, Rhode Island's first and only historian laureate, did not ask to be reappointed. Eight people have applied to be the historian laureate. The state will not share the names of who ...