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Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1969. But as recently opened archives show, the award was granted with strong resistance by some members of the Swedish...

We're pleased as punch to see our own Harriet staff writer Sara Wintz in correspondence with Norma Cole at Open Space.

Euronews sends word of an auction at the New York branch of Christie's in April.

For the Paris Review's interview series, Ilya Kaminsky spends time with Garth Greenwell, whose latest novel is Cleanness.

Harjo is the 23rd poet laureate of the United States and a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation.

Recipients of Literature Translation Fellowships include Jeffrey Angles, who will translate from the Japanese the collected poems of modernist poet Nakahara Chūya, and Nancy Naomi Carlson, who will translation from the French two poetry collections by...

The Guardian's Claire Armitstead interviews this year's T.S. Eliot Prize winner, Roger Robinson.

The PEN America/Jean Stein Book Award finalists have been announced, and include poets Anne Boyer, for The Undying, and Ilya Kaminsky, for Deaf Republic.

Winter: Effulgences and Devotions, by Sarah Vap, is "a hybridized text, growing out of Vap’s daily writing praxis and out of the intellectual work of her dissertation," as Chris Freeman...

The moment that astounds me is always my joy.