Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages . Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) is ranked as one of the greatest poets of the late Middle Ages and his burial in Westminster Abbey beginsContinue Reading
Julian Barnes has won the award for his latest novel “The Sense of an Ending”, which is a tale of childhood friendship and the imperfections of memory.Continue Reading
The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him acclaim as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II. The Swedish Academy said it recognized the 80-year-old poet “because,Continue Reading
MOTHER IS THE FAMOUS WORK OF MAXIM GORKY THE PROPHET IS THE FAMOUS WORK OF” KHALIL GIBRAN JUNGLE BOOK IS WRITTEN BY RUDYARD KIPLING ROBINSON CRUSOE IS THE FAMOUS WORK OF” DANIEL DEFOE SHAKUNTALAM IS A FAMOUS BOOK OF” KALIDASContinue Reading
LITERATURE AT GLANCE First Indian Nobel Prize winner: Rabindra Nath Tagore was the first Indian to win Nobel Prize. He won it for literature (Gitanjali) in 1913. Gunadhya: author of Brihatkatha, ‘Great Story’, a famous collection of tales, written in Paisachi dialect and regarded as one of the major classicsContinue Reading
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