Barbara Kingsolver – Novelist, Political Activist, Poet
National Humanities Medal
Louise Glück is one of America’s most honored contemporary poets. In 2020 Louise Glück has become the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature in 27 years, cited for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. Louise is the 16th woman to win the Nobel, and the…
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Joumana Haddad is a Lebanese poet, translator, journalist and women’s rights activist. She has been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women for three years in a row by Arabian Business Magazine.