In Portugal its common to see cities honouring writers like if they were gods, for example: Barbosa du Bocage in the city of Setúbal, Manuel da Fonseca in Santiago do Cacém, Miguel Torga in Sabrosa and Eça de Queirós in Póvoa de Varzim.
What writer does your city honor using statues, eponyms and even days?
(An eponym is “a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named”)
This is really cool to see because it gives every city his own indentity.
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by CRNXD38
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We have the *O. Henry* Hotel, and the annual *O. Henry* Festival.
Also a road named after the journalist *Edward R. Murrow*
Idk about statues but in the netherlands alot of streets are named after writers.
I used to live in the “Multatulistraat” (Multatuli-street)
Based on: Eduard Douwes Dekker’s pseudonym Multatuli.
John Bunyan is _everywhere_ in Bedford. The slough of despond does sum it up well – supposedly the journey described in the Pilgrim’s Progress is that from Bedford to London.
Here in Indianapolis it’s Kurt Vonnegut and James Whitcomb Riley.