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...Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, and Toni Morrison joined hundreds of audience members last night at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum for an evening of readings in celebration of the 70th birthday of fellow Nobel prize-winner Wole Soyinka, who became the first African to receive the prize...
Gordimer, Walcott and Morrison, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, 1992, and 1993 respectively, all spoke of the profound influence that Soyinka has had on their own work as well as English literature more broadly...
Gates, who hosted the event, added that he could imagine no celebration of Soyinka’s life more appropriate than “a feast of words—words created by some of his favorite writers, who also happen to be Nobel Laureates...
...AIDS activist Jonathan Perry has replaced Nobel Peace Prize nominee Zackie Achmat as the keynote speaker at an AIDS summit this Saturday at the Science Center...
...Robinson and TransAfrica have undertaken another ambitious project: collecting a million signatures denouncing the Rev. Jerry Falwell's accommodating view of the South African government, to be presented next month in a "freedom letter" to the Nobel laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu. TransAfrica had garnered 200,000 signatures by last week, and 50 members of Congress have volunteered to collect at least 1,000 additional signatures each from their constituents...