Word: poetes
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...Kremlin's least favorite writers, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, won the literature award in 1970. He decided he would not attend the presentation for fear of being refused permission to return home. He was probably correct: four years later he was exiled from the Soviet Union. Soviet-born poet Joseph Brodsky was already in exile in New York City when he won the prize for literature in 1987. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov thought it was "a good thing" that world attention would be focused on Russian poetry, but he was sour about Brodsky, who had been sentenced to a work camp...
...turning out to be a good year for the Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz. Last spring, to celebrate his 76th birthday, Mexico City's Cultural Center of Contemporary Art staged an exhibition ranging from pre-Columbian artifacts to modern paintings and called the show "Octavio Paz: The Privileges of Sight." Last week the Swedish Academy selected him for a privilege he had reason to believe was out of sight...
...once again, Nobel touts were caught looking at the wrong continents. Less than an hour before Paz became the winner of the $700,000 prize, rumors were still spreading that the odds-on favorite was Chinese poet Bei Dao. If not he, then possibly Canada's Margaret Atwood, Ireland's Seamus Heaney or the U.S.'s perennial long shot, Joyce Carol Oates...
...Nobel physics and chemistry prizes are to be announced today. Last week, Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz won the prize for literature. Two American doctors, Joseph E. Murray, a professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and E. Donnall Thomas, won the prize in medicine for pioneering organ and bone marrow transplants...
CHILDE HASSAM: AN ISLAND GARDEN REVISITED, National Museum of American Art, Washington. The islands are the Isles of Shoals, off the New Hampshire coast, and the garden was the notable cultivation of journalist-poet Celia Thaxter. Both are memorably captured here by Hassam (1859-1935), America's foremost impressionist. Through...