To address the legacies of slavery and colonialism, read Maryse Condé and Frantz Fanon now. Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 2016). Other past winners include Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1951), Ivo Andric (1961), Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (1903), José Echegaray (1904), Odysseus Elytis (1979), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908), Paul Heyse (1910), Selma Lagerlöf (1909), Halldór Laxness (1955), Henrik Pontoppidan (1917), and Henrik Sienkiewicz (1905). Not recipients that you’d expect.
Visitors to the otherwise picturesque historic town of Visegrad in eastern Bosnia are first greeted by the sight of a huge floating waste dump caught in the deep turquoise waters of the Drina river canyon.
Visitors to the otherwise picturesque historic town of Visegrad in eastern Bosnia are first greeted by the sight of a huge floating waste dump caught in the deep turquoise waters of the Drina river canyon. The Drina winds its way through Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia, where the Visegrad hydro-power plant built a makeshift barrier out of old oil drums in the depths of the canyon some 20 years ago, protecting its dam from the debris carried by the river. "There are about 5,000 cubic metres of different kinds of waste," said Eko Center Visegrad's Dejan Furtula, pointing to the trash barrier.
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