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Former President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to chair the launch of the biography of former Akwa Ibom State Governor Obong Victor Attah, which will be unveiled next Thursday in Abuja. A member of ...

Medtronic plc expects its Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system to be a key growth driver, especially when it receives U.S. FDA approval. Already approved for use in Europe, Medtronic recently received ...

Two Victor Hugo Trails have been launched in Guernsey to celebrate the island's literary and historical heritage. The two trails allow people to learn more about him and his exile in Guernsey, ...

Victor Hugo was "the French equivalent of Shakespeare and Dickens", said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. We've all absorbed the myths he created – "Les Misérables", "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" – ...

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables, but less known is his work as an illustrator – the subject of a new exhibition in London. “Astonishing ...

Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo are towering figures in literary history, each known for stories that transcend time. Dickens captured the struggles of the working class in England, while Hugo painted ...

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 ...

A colossal toadstool towers above a drab landscape, at once ominous and lonely, its red cap the only hint of colour in a sea of brown, as an almost human face peeks from its stem. It would look at ...

“Astonishing Things” was Vincent Van Gogh’s observation about Victor Hugo’s work; we don’t know whether he was talking about his prose, poetry or art - probably the prose. But it’s not a bad ...

Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo grew up, the treatment often looks forward to late 19th century symbolism and ...