A 19-year-old Cambridge undergraduate student from Hong Kong became the youngest winner of the National Poetry Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for poetry. Eric Yip ...

Eminent Sindhi poet Allah Bux aka Dr Akash Ansari died on Saturday. He was 69. Police have opened a probe to dig out the facts behind his death apparently caused by a fire in his room. The poet ...

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

I believe that reading poetry is an important way to commemorate these victims because it is such a personal form. The events of the Holocaust are familiar to many people as dates and numbers.

“She was the kind of poet who always responded to the moment,” the writer Edwidge Danticat, who also was born in Haiti, said in an interview. Danticat recalled that at one point while writing ...

Calling the next five years as an “unique opportunity” to realise ‘sabka vikas’ (development for all), she said, “The great Telugu poet and playwright Gurajada Apparao has said ‘A ...

Ireland has lost one of its leading literary figures following the death of the multiple award-winning poet, Michael Longley. The last survivor of the Belfast triumvirate of poets which also ...

The funeral of acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley has taken place in Belfast. Mr Longley died in hospital at the age of 85 on 22 January. The poet is survived by his wife Edna and children ...

Irish poet Michael Longley has died aged 85. The acclaimed poet was born in Belfast in July 1939 and lived in the city until his death. Mr Longley went to school at Royal Belfast Academical ...

The celebrated Sindhi poet Dr Allah Bux aka Akash Ansari, who died in a controversial house fire on Saturday in Hyderabad, was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard, Shaikh Umar, in Badin ...

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