IN HER ENGAGING memoir of 20th-century literary life, The Kindness of Strangers, Salka Viertel, a leading Austrian actress, recounts her first American encounter. In 1928, she and her husband, writer-director Berthold Viertel, had been invited to dinner in Berlin by a visiting columnist, Dorothy Thompson, who happened to be the fiancée of Sinclair Lewis.
Olga Tokarczuk, Polish writer with Ukrainian roots, wins 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
Posted On: October 10th, 2019
Posted In: Culture and Arts Ms. Tokarczuk was awarded the prize “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.” The award had been postponed from last year following a scandal…
