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3 days ago · On January 25th, the Minsk District House of Officers held a literary evening to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Romain Rolland (1866–1944). Ivan Melezh gave a speech at the celebration dedicated to the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1915). Piatrus Brouka gave an opening speech.
5 days ago · Later, Romain Rolland, the French Nobel Laureate author, wrote a comprehensive biography of Gandhi in 1927. Louis Fisher, Will Durant also authored his biographies. There are more than one lakh books available in the world today that contain biographies of Gandhiji or references to him and his ideology.
2 days ago · 1. Yiddish. 1. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature 1913) wrote in Bengali and English, Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize in Literature 1969) wrote in French and English and Joseph Brodsky (Nobel Prize in Literature 1987) wrote poetry in Russian and prose in English.
4 days ago · First published in 1947 and reissued by Virago in 1985, Sisters by a River is an autobiographical novel based on Comyns’ own childhood, a wild, unconventional upbringing in an upper middle-class household in Warwickshire in the early 20 th century.
5 days ago · Although their stories have the power to grip readers and not let go, sometimes the story behind the author is the most fascinating part. The best writer biopics tell the stories of the behind-the-scenes work that goes into writing a novel, journalistic piece, academic journal, or poem.
5 days ago · Between 1848 and 1914 around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) to fight in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). Following the traces of these mercenaries beyond the confines of the Dutch Empire, this book elucidates the complexities of the nineteenth-century military labour markets and provides an intricate examination of the mercenaries' socio ...
5 days ago · Trois personnes âgées de 18 à 20 ans étaient convoquées vendredi devant le tribunal de Paris pour avoir menacé de mort sur internet la proviseure du lycée Romain-Rolland d'Ivry-sur-Seine...
