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Archive: August 2014 (3 Posts)

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Summer School at the Library

Posted by: Robert Casper

The following is a guest post by Clare Hogan, summer intern at the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center. When Rob Casper asked me to write a blog post about my time at the Poetry and Literature Center, I thought of how I got here. My education in poetry started in high school, and …

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The Legacies of João Ubaldo Ribeiro and Ariano Suassuna

Posted by: Peter Armenti

The following is a guest post by Catalina Gómez, program coordinator in the Library of Congress Hispanic Division. Last month, Brazil lost two of its most beloved literary figures: author and journalist João Ubaldo Ribeiro, 73, and playwright and author Ariano Suassuna, 87–two writers who not only published literature of paramount importance, but who were …

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Celebrating Tove Jansson

Posted by: Robert Casper

The following is a guest post by Taru Rauha Spiegel, reference specialist in the Library of Congress European Division. August 9th marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Tove Jansson, one of the world’s best-known children’s authors. Although Jansson does not have the same following in the United States as she does in Europe …