Questions tagged [topic-challenge]
For the site's monthly topic challenge posts, inviting users to read and ask/answer questions about specific works of literature in a specific timeframe, or for questions about these topic challenges.
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Announcing the June 2018 topic challenge: Their Eyes Were Watching God
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the end of May, it's time to announce the next topic challenge! ...
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Announcing the December 2021 – January 2022 topic challenge: Maltese literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the October–November 2021 topic challenge: Jorge Amado
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the August–September 2021 topic challenge: Munshi Premchand
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the February–March 2023 topic challenge: the works of Arthur Koestler
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the January 2019 topic challenge: Lu Xun
Happy new year to Literature SE!
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the start of this month, it's ...
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Announcing the April–May 2021 topic challenge: Gargantua and Pantagruel
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the April–...
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Announcing the August–September 2020 topic challenge: the Shahnameh
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the February 2019 topic challenge: Miroslav Krleža
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the start of this month, it's time to announce the next topic ...
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Announcing the March 2019 reading challenge: Release the Sun, by William Sears
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Announcing the November–December 2020 topic challenge: Ko Un
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month, it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the January–February 2020 topic challenge: Lin Yutang (林语堂)
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months
that overlap by one month, it is time to announce the January–...
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Announcing the July 2019 topic challenge: Journey to the West (西游记)
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Announcing the December 2018 reading challenge: Darcie Little Badger
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Announcing the April 2018 Topic Challenge: “Look Who's Back”
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as March nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic ...
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Announcing the June 2019 topic challenge: Elizabethan Prose
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Announcing the July–August 2021 topic challenge: Magda Szabó
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the July–...
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Announcing the June–July 2021 topic challenge: Old English literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month, it is time to announce the June–...
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Announcing the July–August 2023 topic challenge: Jamaica Kincaid
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the July–...
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Announcing the October 2018 Topic Challenge: Robert Hayden
For this month's challenge, we move from Turkey to the USA to focus on
the poems of Robert Hayden
suggested by BESW.
Robert Hayden (1913 – 1980) was the first African-American writer to hold the ...
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Announcing the July 2018 reading challenge: "The Assault"
July has begun, and it is time to announce this month's reading challenge, which is...
The Assault by Harry Mulisch
suggested by Martin Tournoij.
What is a topic challenge?
The topic challenges ...
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Announcing the July–August 2020 topic challenge: The Tale of Genji
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the July–...
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Announcing the September–October 2023 topic challenge: Sarojini Naidu
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is (past) time to announce ...
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Announcing the April–May 2022 topic challenge: “Omenuko,” by Pita Nwana
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time (okay, almost a month ...
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Announcing the March–April 2021 topic challenge: Mem and Zin (Mam û Zîn)
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month, it is time to announce the March–...
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Announcing the May–June 2022 topic challenge: Georg Büchner
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the May–...
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