...Roger Allen Copyright © 1989 by the Project For Transnational Cultural Studies 1989 Naguib Mahfouz: Nobel Laureate Roger Allen Naguib Mahfouz, the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Literature, is the first Arab author ever to win the Nobel Prize. A Western cultural institution has...

..., magic realism is historically a genre that has emerged in the course of the twentieth century in societies that were formerly colonized by the European powers. It appeared first in Latin America, in novels like El Se*r Presidente (1946) by the Guatemalan Nobel Prize winner Miguel Angel...

..., such as Wal-Mart. Attempts are being made to increase these wages. More and more one reads of how millions of women in villages take out microloans to set up small businesses (under the finance system made popular by Nobel Peace Prize winner...

..., Canada, Denmark, Brazil and Singapore. Represen- tative topics addressed by different STP and A panelists in 1988 include: human rights and Canadian arts policy; China's campaign for the Nobel Prize; international flows of television programming; controversial public art; cultural advisors...

... self-published the first issue in the fall of 1988. Within a year the Berlin Wall fell, a million protesters filled Tiananmen Square, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and Naguib Mahfouz became the first Arab awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Cold War narratives were fast...

..., fur- thermore, that his main scholarly defender in the affair was Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize – winning economist whose prestige no longer depends solely on his standing in the academy. With little left to prove to other academic schol- ars, Cronon and Krugman can afford to reinvest...

.... The Vuice Literary Supplement organized an issue around the theme of “Black Talk.” Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize, as has Toni Morrison since this essay was first written. Reminding us that money is to be made in all this, that arbiter...

...—On the Translatability of Modernity's Violence,” edited by Fazil Moradi and Richard Rottenburg. Special issue, Critical Studies 4 : 5 – 23 . Morrison Toni . 1993 . “ Nobel Lecture .” Nobel Prize in Literature, December 7 . www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/lecture/ . Mossuz-Lavau...

... influential Asians of the century” in 1999. In 2004 he was presented with the parodic Ig Nobel “Peace Prize” at a Harvard University ceremony attended by at least three actual Nobel laureates, receiving the longest standing ovation in the prize’s history ( McNeill 2005 : 222). As Deli Yang (2008 : 194...

... and a range of literary forms. But there would not have been a Nigerian Nobel Prize winner in lit- erature in 1986 if Wole Soyinka had not creatively drawn on both a cos- Notes on the Global Ecumene 71 mopolitan literary expertise and an imagination rooted in a Nigerian...

... interventions were not introduced in Flint. Nonetheless, they remain a good illustration of how behavioral experts think about addressing societal challenges. The idea of bringing behavioral science to policy gained momentum in 2008 after the publication of the book Nudge by the Nobel Prize–winning...

... emphasizes the work the family has undertaken to heal the wound of difference dealt to its own kinship narrative and practice. Oe, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1994, has written several other books chronicling...

... liberty to promote ours.” (For this, among other things, she was recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.) While the belief in an “international community” potentially able to “save” the country was isolated within a narrow Burmese elite, many of whom worked quixotically in exile to foment revolution...

.... 128 Vivekananda–Vaisnava poetry, Rabindra[nath’s] poetry” as well as music, feasts, Adda in and picnicking.45 Calcutta Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel prize for literature in 1913. One can only imagine how this would have helped...

... to this iconic representation of the Bengali woman is the trademark of Tantuja. tably W. B. Yeats)as the “mystic from the East” and awarded the Nobel Prize for a book of his poems. lo Literally, Dhakai saris are saris made by the weavers of Dhaka, which is now the capital of Bangladesh...

.... Image courtesy Lise Autogena nebulae. The title of the project plays on the famous Black- Scholes- Merton for- mula for pricing options contracts, which earned Myron Scholes and Robert C. Merton a Nobel Prize in 1997 (Fischer Black...

...- ism but also the symptomatology carried, for better or for worse, by the term Balkanization. The Nobel prize–winning Serbian author Ivo Andri´c, whose 1945 novel The Bridge on the Drina clearly served as inspiration...

... is a script, not a language, or that Tamil has always had independent and equal status with Sanskrit, is, of course, important to note. But perhaps the more important point is not the list’s historical (in)accuracy but its similarity to the hymn composed by the Indian Nobel laureate Rabin- dranath...

... interesting. It’s part of what seems to me now a citizen obligation. There was just a ballot initiative in California to label GMOs [genetically modified organisms], to label food as genetically modified, which lost. All the Nobel Prize winners were opposed to it; I was opposed to it, because I think...

... cátedra) about everything he says, something exhibitionistic. Like many blind people, he’s an eloquent speaker, albeit the subject of the Nobel Prize tends to crop up excessively each time he talks to reporters.”2 (This is a tendency, we...