In 1999, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) incepted March 21 as “World Poetry Day.” Although World Poetry Month is in April, UNESCO declared the date as an individual celebration. Through this, UNESCO aims to recognize and appreciate literature’s versatile form. As it varies in the topic covered, literature also takes on different faces and figures. For World …

For the first time in the history of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the award was given to a singer-songwriter, American Bob Dylan, originally known as Robert Allen Zimmerman. The Swedish Academy announced Dylan as the winner, citing in a press release that he is being recognized “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. The …