Kategoriarkiv: culture

Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Facts Born: 1948, Zanzibar  Prize motivation: ”for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”

The nurse who treated the Führer | Radio Prague International

During the wartime occupation, German-language broadcasts from Prague were absorbed into the radio network of Nazi Germany, the so-called “Reichssender”. A number of… — Läs på english.radio.cz/nurse-who-treated-fuhrer-8562076

Alan Turing | Biography, Facts, & Education | Britannica

Alan Turing, British mathematician and logician, a major contributor to mathematics, cryptanalysis, computer science, and artificial intelligence. — Läs på http://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing

Justice at last for Marie Colvin | News Review | The Sunday Times

To the colleagues of Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times journalist who was killed in Syria in 2012, the black eyepatch she wore for the last decade or so of her life was a defiant symbol of her courage — Läs på http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/justice-at-last-for-marie-colvin-nsnjg86h8