Edward Hirsch, an award-winning poet, was named today to be the next president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In January he will succeed Joel Conarroe, who has been president for 17 years. In making the announcement, Mr. Conarroe praised Mr. Hirsch as “an articulate champion of what the Guggenheim stands for” and “an […]
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Poland’s Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska has written a moving tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. The blank verse by Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, was published on the front page of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza daily newspaper Wednesday, the first anniversary of the
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AMMAN — Iraqi artist Mohammad Muhraddin’s innovative compositions currently on display at the Orfali Art Gallery mix photographs with abstract forms. In twenty-five paintings, Muhraddin blends pain with joy, the basis of his art works. The pieces are characterised by the artist’s abstract experimentation with color and composition showing parts of the human form. Some
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President Moi will today inspect development projects in Bureti District and thereafter address a public rally at Sotik town grounds. The President, escorted by the Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner (PC), Peter Raburu, will arrive at Sotik town grounds at 12 noon where he will be received by Bureti District leaders. Meanwhile, the President yesterday at
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany’s most prominent literary critic, was awarded the Goethe Prize this week for his contributions to postwar German literature. The prize, given every few years on Aug. 28, the poet’s birthday, was previously bestowed on German-speaking intellectual icons like Thomas Mann and Sigmund Freud. For Mr. Reich-Ranicki, 82, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor, the
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