Classical Composer and Two-Time Pulitzer Winner Elliott Carter has died.

The late composer was known for using complex rhythms to challenge the audiences' take on music.

"It's not music that makes an over theatrical effect," Carter said. "but it assumes the listener is listening to sounds and making sense out of them."

Carter won 2 Pulitzer prizes, a Grammy nomination, and a National Medal of Arts Award during his lifetime.

He was 103.

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Natasha Threthewey, a Pullitzer Prize winner, was named US poet laureate on Thursday.

Trethewey, an English professor at Emory University, won the Pullitzer Prize for her collection, "Native Guard" in 2007.

She was born in Gulfport, Mississippi and is the second southerner to be appointed to this position.

"Her poems dig beneath the surface of history— personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago — to explore the human struggles we all face," said Librarian of Congress James Billington.

Thretheway will begin working as US Poet Laureate this fall.

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