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Wrapping up a historic three-day visit to Myanmar, Clinton held hands with Suu Kyi on the porch of the Nobel peace laureate's lakeside home where she spent much of the past two decades under house arrest and thanked her for a her "steadfast and very clear leadership."

Hillary Clinton, Aung San Suu Kyi Vow To Work Together To Bring Democracy To Myanmar The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Wrapping up a historic three-day visit to Myanmar, Clinton held hands with Suu Kyi on the porch of the Nobel peace laureate's lakeside home where she spent much of the past two decades under house arrest and thanked her for a her "steadfast and very clear leadership."

Hillary Clinton, Aung San Suu Kyi Vow To Work Together To Bring Democracy To Myanmar The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

The US energy secretary, Steven Chu, put up a strong defence of the administration's loan to a failed solar company on Thursday, but the Nobel physics laureate's own wisdom and judgment was put under the microscope in a hostile congressional hearing.

Solyndra hearing: unflappable Steven Chu endures five-hour grilling 2011

The former poet laureate's anguished words on the suicide of his first wife have lain unseen for decades.

Ted Hughes's final lines to Sylvia Plath bring closure to a tragic tale Robert McCrum 2010

Raveendran/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Congress-party leader Sonia Gandhi and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee sat in front of a photograph of Tagore during the celebrations for the Nobel laureate's birth anniversary, in New Delhi, India, May 7.

Remembering Tagore 2011

The lesson, Triana says, lay not in the specific words that flashed in the Nobel laureate's imagination that day in the Bogota theater.

Jorge Ali Triana brings Gabriel Garcia Marquez tale to GALA Hispanic Theatre David Montgomery 2011

Andrew Motion shrugs off the hardships of a poet laureate's life to get people listening to poetry

Poets enlist for quest to pull St George from jaws of far right 2011

But the decision more likely reflects the Nobel laureate's strong pro-democracy convictions—beliefs to which he has hewed since his return to Egypt two years ago.

Egypt's ElBaradei Ends Bid for Presidency, Citing Continued Autocracy Matt Bradley 2012

The late Nobel laureate's 60 very short stories distinct as the many courses of a classic kaiseki meal say more about Japanese character than most longer works.

Advance Booking 2010

The Nobel laureate's jolly outlook in Norwich was markedly different to his appearance at the Adelaide Writers 'Week earlier this year, introducing the British author Geoff Dyer.

JM Coetzee rocks the house (yes, you read that right) 2010