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Heaney was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature making him the first Harvard professor ever to be awarded the literature prize. The prestigious prize pays $1 million...
English Department chair Leo Damrosch said that Heaney did not teach last spring as he usually does, because of commitments stemming from winning the Nobel Prize...
OSLO, Norway: Two men struggling for peace in Indonesian-occupied East Timor received the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo's City Hall Tuesday. Angry Indonesian representatives boycotted the ceremony. Exiled Timorese activist Jose Ramos Horta shared the honor with Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo. "I firmly believe that I am here essentially as the voice of the voiceless people of East Timor," said Belo in his acceptance speech. "And what the people want is peace. An end to violence and the respect for their human rights." The Indonesian government, which invaded East Timor...
Despite the shroud of secrecy surrounding the council, when I learned about a meeting that was going to be held well after midnight at the Hasty Pudding Club, I knew I had to be there. Smelling my Pulitzer Prize in the balance, I begged anyone who would listen to let me sit in. I was promptly refused--absolutely no journalists allowed. I wasn't going to take no for an answer, however, and I resolved to stakeout the Pudding, to cover the meeting surreptitiously. But then I decided to write some e-mail and go to sleep...
...between 1987 and Oprah's selection last month, immediately churned out 730,000 more. On the day that Morrison appeared on air with Oprah, Barnes & Noble sold 16,070 copies of Song of Solomon nationwide. Oprah provided a bigger boost for Morrison's commercial clout than the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature...