John Hollander is the author of numerous books, including "Figurehead: And Other Poems," "Selected Poetry," "Tesserae and Other Poems" and the anthology "Committed to Memory." He is Sterling professor ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In September 1843, Victor Hugo was on a sunlit walk while travelling with his mistress in the Pyrenees. He ...

The literary and political genius was one of the most famous people to have lived in Guernsey while he was exiled from his homeland. Honoured by the French Academy for a poem he wrote and wins first ...

Victor Hugo is the most iconic authors of French Romantic movement. Known for his works that weaved political upheavals of his age in timeless tales, Hugo was one of the greatest literary sensations ...

The intense life of Victor Hugo is the inspiration and plot of a play starring twenty students of French Lycée Bonaparte, the oldest French school in Doha. The cast is a diverse group of teenagers led ...