It’s been barely a week since Croatian skipper and midfield maestro, Luka Modric, ended the Ronaldo-Messi duopoly by winning the 2018 Ballon d’Or at a glitz-filled gala that was held in France. It was a deserving award for a player who had done remarkable exploits for both club and country in the year. Prior to that evening, the Real Madrid […]
Leading Jamaican and West Indian poet and writer 70-year-old Lorna Goodison has won a major literary prize. Goodison, who currently divides her time between Jamaica and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches at the University of Michigan, was one of eight recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prize. Each writer will each be recognized with a US$165,000 prize to support their writing. […]
Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott has died after a long illness at his home in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia at the age of 87. The renowned poet, playwright, painter, journalist, and professor has received praise from many of his contemporaries including Robert Graves, who wrote that Walcott “handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than […]
