Bjornstjerne Bjornsonreceived the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "e;as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit"e;, becoming the first Norwegian Nobel laureate.
Emily Pauline Johnson, also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet, author and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, Alice Dunbar Nelson was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance.
Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised.
In society, the nature of death and humanity's awareness of its own mortality has for millennia been a concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical inquiry.
Loneliness has many faces - it can be a moment of sadness and the result of bad choices or some abandonment, but it can also arise as a gift for us to enjoy our own company, seize the silence and meditate on life.
Henry James was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
Nach seinen beiden großen Büchern Leben und Der vergessliche Riese begibt David Wagner sich in seinem neuen Roman auf ein west-östliches Abenteuer, das von Istanbul über drei Kontinente hinweg bis tief in die bewegte Geschichte des 20.
Als Führer einer Freimaurerloge konspiriert der Magier, dessen schwarze Augen jeden in seinen Bann ziehen, gegen diese verachtungswürdige, verblendete Hofaristokratie, deren Untergang er sein Leben verschrieben hat.
