N.H. Kleinbaum
Nancy Horowitz Kleinbaum was an American writer and journalist. She is the author of the novel Dead Poets Society, which is based on the movie of the same name.
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Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, writer, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting, from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck. The pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the work and Damon garnered multiple nominations for Best Actor, including the Academy Award, for his lead performance in the same film.
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Damon went on to star in films such as Saving Private Ryan, The Talented Mr. Ripley, the Ocean's series, the Bourne series, Syriana, The Good Shepherd, The Departed, The Informant! and Invictus. He has received multiple award nominations for his film performances and has received a star on th -
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, born Vaimboult was a French teacher, journalist and writer. She is the author of many classic tales for children and youth.
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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, née Vaimboult était une pédagogue, journaliste et écrivain française. Elle est l'auteur de nombreux contes classiques pour les enfants et la jeunesse. -
Gus Van Sant
Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an American film director, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
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His early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. Openly gay, he has dealt unflinchingly with homosexual and other marginalized subcultures without being particularly concerned about providing positive role models.
His filmography as writer and director includes an adaptation of Tom Robbins' novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which features a diverse cast (Keanu Reeves, Roseanne Barr, Uma Thurman, and k.d. lang, with cameos by William S. Burroughs and Heather Graham, among others); and -
Jason Stacy
Jason Stacy is an associate professor of United States history at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is the author of Walt Whitman’s Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: the 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition. He lives in Edwardsville, Illinois.
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Elizabeth Smart
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Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with the poet George Barker. She is the subject of the 1991 biography, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart a Life, by Rosemary Sullivan, and a film, Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels, produced by Maya Gallus. -
Xudoyberdi To’xtaboyev
Khudayberdi Tukhtabaev was an Uzbek writer of children's stories. he studied at the Department of Philology at the University of Central Asia from 1950 until 1955. He worked for a time as a newspaper journalist, including at Tashkent haqiqati (The Truth of Tashkent) and Qizil O’zbekiston (Red Uzbekistan), and he was the editor of the monthly magazine Guliston. From 1972 until 1977, he worked as chief editor at Yosh Gvardiya (Young Guard) publishing house, and as assistant to the chief editor at Shark Yulduzi (Western Star) newspaper. In those days, he also worked as chief of editing at Yosh Kuch (Young Strength) newspaper.
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To'xtaboyev began his career as a children's writer in 1958. He created the collection of stories Shoshqoloq (Hasty) in -
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress and writer. She is best known for creating, writing and starring in the comedy-drama series Crashing (2016) and Fleabag (2016–19), for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, and for developing and writing the first season of BBC America drama Killing Eve, based on novels by Luke Jennings.
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Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American film director, actress, producer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the first American woman and third woman in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the other two women being Lina Wertmüller and Jane Campion.
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Eric Walz
Author Eric Walz, born in 1966, started writing short stories after taking a business training, but his passion has always been for historical subjects. Eric Walz lives in Berlin, working as a freelance personal trainer and author. At present he is writing his next historical novel.
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Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science.
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes -
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
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Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and Joh -
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.
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Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican fact -
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a beloved British author, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot, best known for his enchanting and often darkly humorous children's books that have captivated generations of readers around the world. Born in Llandaff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Dahl led a life marked by adventure, tragedy, creativity, and enduring literary success. His vivid imagination and distinctive storytelling style have made him one of the most celebrated children's authors in modern literature.
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Before becoming a writer, Dahl lived a life filled with excitement and hardship. He served as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II, surviving a near-fatal crash in the Libyan desert. His wartime experiences and travels deeply influenced his story -
Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysen is an American author best known for her memoir Girl, Interrupted, based on her experiences at McLean Hospital. Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she is the daughter of economist Carl Kaysen. Her other works include Asa, As I Knew Him, Far Afield, The Camera My Mother Gave Me, and Cambridge. Kaysen has also lived in the Faroe Islands and often draws on personal experiences in her writing.
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and emotionally powerful authors of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she demonstrated literary talent from an early age, publishing her first poem at the age of eight. Her early life was shaped by the death of her father, Otto Plath, when she was eight years old, a trauma that would profoundly influence her later work.
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Plath attended Smith College, where she excelled academically but also struggled privately with depression. In 1953, she survived a suicide attempt, an experience she later fictionalized in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. After recovering, she earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study -
Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of -
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch.
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American celebutante, singer, actress, model, and businesswoman.
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She is best-known through the television series The Simple Life. She has appeared in several minor film roles, most notably in the horror film House of Wax in 2005. In 2004 she published a tongue-in-cheek autobiography. In 2006, she released her debut album Paris. Hilton's career pursuits include singing, modeling, acting, writing, and television. As a result of several legal incidents, Hilton served a widely publicized sentence in an L.A. County jail facility in 2007. -
David Sheff
David Sheff is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Beautiful Boy. Sheff's other books include Game Over, China Dawn, and All We Are Saying. His many articles and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Wired, Fortune, and elsewhere. His ongoing research and reporting on the science of addiction earned him a place on Time Magazine's list of the World's Most Influential People. Sheff and his family live in Inverness, California.
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Osamu Dazai
Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.
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With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai’s stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, and postwar Japan. -
Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller was born in Boston and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. For the last ten years she has been teaching and tutoring Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students. She has also studied at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, and in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA, where she teaches and writes. The Song of Achilles is her first novel.
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Sarah Addison Allen
New York Times Bestselling novelist Sarah Addison Allen brings the full flavor of her southern upbringing to bear on her fiction -- a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town sensibility.
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Born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Allen grew up with a love of books and an appreciation of good food (she credits her journalist father for the former and her mother, a fabulous cook, for the latter). In college, she majored in literature -- because, as she puts it, "I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. It was like being able to major in eating chocolate."
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Albert Camus
Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.
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Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
People best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale The Little Prince (1943).
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He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Sa -
C.S. Lewis
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Clive Staples Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954. He was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the -
André Aciman
André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays. Aciman received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, has taught at Princeton and Bard and is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently chair of the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers' Institute at the Graduate Center.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Mieko Kawakami
Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, born in August 29, 1976) is a Japanese singer and writer from Osaka.
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She was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize for promising new writers of serious fiction (2007) for her novel Chichi to Ran (乳と卵) (Breasts and Eggs).
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Gabrielle Douglas
Gabrielle Douglas is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she made history, becoming the first US gymnast to take home a team and an individual gold medal in the same Olympics. Gabrielle began her training at age six, and became the Virginia State Champion only two years later. When she was fourteen, she left her family in Virginia Beach to train with coach Liang Chow in Des Moines, Iowa. Under Chow's guidance, and with tremendous faith in God's plan for her, Gabrielle competed in the Olympic Trials and walked away with the only guaranteed spot on the team. Since her Olympic triumph, Gabrielle has used her platform to inspire millions with a powerful message: With hard work and persistence, any dream is possible. V
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M.L. Rio
M. L. Rio is an author, but before she was an author she was an actor, and before she was an actor she was just a word nerd whose best friends were books. She holds a master's degree in Shakespeare Studies from King's College London and Shakespeare's Globe and a PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Adrienne Young
Adrienne Young is the New York Times and international bestselling author of the Sky and Sea duology, the Fable series, and Spells for Forgetting. When she’s not writing, you can find Adrienne on her yoga mat, on a walk in the woods, or planning her next travel adventure. She lives and writes in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
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Jay.
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Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry is an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist. His photo Afghan Girl, of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of National Geographic several times. McCurry has photographed many assignments for National Geographic and has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1986.
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McCurry is the recipient of numerous awards, including Magazine Photographer of the Year, awarded by the National Press Photographers Association; the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal; and two first-place prizes in the World Press Photo contest (1985 and 1992). -
Eva Márquez
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, daughter of European immigrants, Eva Márquez has spent most of her life outside of her home country. At the age of five, Eva accompanied her parents to the United States, where the family settled permanently. After graduating from university, she went on to complete graduate studies in International Relations in Spain. Eva received her Master of International Studies degree from the University of Sydney and went on to work in the global health field in Sub Saharan Africa and South East Asia. Eva currently resides in Southern Africa.
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Julian Kornhauser
Julian Kornhauser (born 20 September 1946 in Gliwice, Poland) is a Polish poet and literary critic.
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He was born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, Jakub and Małgorzata Kornhauser. He is an author of poems, novels and literary sketches. He also published translations of Serbian and Croatian poetry. At present, he works as a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is one of the most prominent representatives of the poetic New Wave of the 1970s and a co-founder of the literary group "Teraz". -
Emma Rose
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Togʻay Murod
Tog‘ay Murod (taxallusi; asl ism-sharifi Mengnorov Tog‘aymurod) (1948.3.2, Surxondaryo viloyati Denov tumani Xo‘jasoat qishlog‘i — 2003.27.5, Toshkent) — O‘zbekiston xalq yozuvchisi (1999). Toshkent davlat universitetining jurnalistika fakultetini tugatgan (1972).
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Respublika radiosida muharrir (1972—75), «O‘zbekiston fizkulturachisi» gazetasida (1976—78), «Fan va turmush» jurnalida (1982—84) adabiy xodim bo‘lib ishlagan. 1984—86 yillarda Moskvada Oliy adabiyot kursida o‘qigan.
Dastlab kichik hikoyalari, ocherklari e’lon qilingan. Birinchi yirik qissasi — «Yulduzlar mangu yonadi» (1976). «Ot kishnagan oqshom» (1979), «Oydinda yurgan odamlar» (1980), «Momo Yer qo‘shig‘i» (1985) qissalarida qishloq hayotiga xos manzaralar aks etgan. Ularda halol -
Ingmar Heytze
Ingmar Heytze (16 februari 1970, Utrecht) publiceerde tot nu toe acht dichtbundels, drie dagboeken, een bundel miniaturen en Het beste en de rest, een keuze uit eigen werk. Hij trad, solo of met muzikanten, op tijdens literaire festivals als Crossing Border, Lowlands, de Nacht van de Poëzie en de reprise van Poëzie in Carré in 2006. Naast autonoom werk schrijft Ingmar Heytze elke week een gedicht voor het AD Utrechts Nieuwsblad (Heytze op Zaterdag) en een sportcolumn voor de maandageditie van de Volkskrant. Daarnaast is hij sinds 2007 werkzaam als programmeur van het Huis van de Poëzie, het op één na grootste poëziefestival van Utrecht. In november 2008 ontving Ingmar Heytze de Utrechtse C.C.S. Croneprijs voor zijn gehele oeuvre; op 15 maar
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Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan
22 Ağustos 1926 tarihinde Mersin'in Tarsus ilçesinde doğdu. Eskişehir Ticaret Lisesi’ni bitirdi (1946). Türkiye İş Bankası’na girerek Adana, Ankara ve İstanbul’da çalıştı. Halkla İlişkiler Müdür Yardımcısı oldu. Bu görevdeyken Haziran 1977'de emekli oldu. İstanbul’da kendi adını taşıyan bir sanat galerisi kurdu.
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Şiire 1940 yılında Yedigün şairleri arasında başladı. 1975 yılına kadar 33 şiir, 4 düzyazı kitabı, 13 antoloji ve biyografik eser olmak üzere toplam 50 kitap çıkardı. Şiir plakları, şarkı sözleri ve yergileriyle tanındı. 4 Kasım 1984 tarihinde öldü.
Genellikle Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel duyarlılığında ve aşk, ayrılık, özlem temaları ekseninde çoğalttığı şiirini, 1973’te büyük oğlu Vedat’ın ölmesi üzerine, hayatın boşluğu, ölüm ve acı gibi d -
Sujata Bhatt
Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, India. She grew up in Pune (India) and in the United States. She received her MFA from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. To date, she has published six collections of poetry with Carcanet Press. She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for her first collection, Brunizem (1988). Subsequent collections include Monkey Shadows (PBS recommendation, 1991), The Stinking Rose (shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize, 1995), Point No Point (1997), Augatora (PBS Recommendation, 2000), and A Colour for Solitude (2002). She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991 and the Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000. She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for th
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Saskia Maaskant
Saskia Maaskant is een Nederlandse auteur. Zij debuteerde in 2011 met de jeugdroman 'De Verteller van Beorga' bij uitgeverij Davidsfonds (Antwerpen, België). Dit boek werd genomineerd voor de Zoute Zoen, de belangrijkste manuscriptenprijs voor een jeugdboek in het Nederlands taalgebied, en werd daarbij tweede. Haar tweede roman 'Kieuw' werd genomineerd voor diverse prijzen in Nederland en Vlaanderen en won de Accolade voor het 'Beste Jeugdboek' (Zeeuwse Boekenprijs). 'Dromer' - Maaskants derde roman, won 'De Kleine Cervantes 2018'. Haar vierde jeugdroman 'Meerminnen verdrinken niet' werd genomineerd voor de Archeon Thea Beckmanprijs 2021.
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Jānis Rokpelnis
Jānis Rokpelnis is a Latvian poet and essayist. Honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
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Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (code-name Jan Bugaj, 1921-1944) - Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most renowned authors of Generation of Columbuses - young generation of Polish poetry, many of whom perished in the Warsaw Uprising and during the German occupation of Poland.
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Baczyński was born in Warsaw in the family of renowned literary critic and soldier of Polish Legions in World War I, Stanisław Baczyński and school teacher Stefania Zieleńczyk. His mother was a zealous Catholic but with Jewish roots, and as such was treated by the Germans as a Jew. His uncle, Dr. Adam Zieleńczyk, escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and was killed by Germans in 1943.
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Octavian Soviany
A debutat editorial cu volumul de versuri Ucenicia batrinului alchimist (Dacia, 1983). De-a lungul anilor a colaborat la principalele reviste literare din Romania. Este membru al Uniunii Scriitorilor din 1995. A publicat poezie (Cartea lui Benedict – Vinea, 2002; Alte poeme de moda veche – Pontica, 2004; Scrisori din Arcadia – Paralela 45, 2005; Dilecta – Cartea Romaneasca, 2006; Marii oameni ai revolutiilor – editie samizdat, seria no name, 2009), romane (Textele de la Monte Negro – Pontica, 2003; Viata lui Kostas Venetis – Cartea Romaneasca, 2011), teatru (Cinci poeme dramatice – Palimpsest, 2005) si critica (Apocaliptica textului – Palimpsest, 2008; Cinci decenii de experimentalism. Compendiu de poezie romaneasca actuala – Casa de pariur
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Manfred Theisen
Manfred Theisen studierte Germanistik, Anglistik und Politik, forschte zwei Jahre für das Innenministerium in der Sowjetunion und leitete eine Tageszeitungsredaktion. Seine Bücher wurden ausgezeichnet, auf die Auswahllisten der Rundfunkanstalten gesetzt und in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt. Der Autor hat vier Kinder und lebt mit seiner Familie in Köln. Auf Anfrage hält er Lesungen und führt Workshops durch.
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Luna Darko
Luna F. Darko (auch bekannt als kitthey / lulu / kittischnitti) ist 1991 in Deutschland geboren und ein Kind des Internets. Sie gehört zum 2015 gegründeten Künstlerkollektiv HYDRA CLIQUE CREATIVE COSMOS und zum Musiklabel CYBER-GEN. Luna kann sich an keine Zeit erinnern, in der sie nicht gemalt, geschrieben, gesungen, fotografiert oder gefilmt hat. Sie ist mit dem freien Internet aufgewachsen, hat es entdeckt und geformt, war (wie die meisten ihrer Generation) auf diversen sozialen Netzwerken angemeldet und hat ihre Gedanken und Ästhetik mit der Welt geteilt - dort hat sie auch ihre besten Freunde kennengelernt und als hydra_ccc erreichen sie online mittlerweile so viele Menschen, dass sie sich gemeinsam durch ihre Kunst finanzieren können.
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Jim Bell
James (Jim) F. Bell III (born July 23, 1965) is a Professor of Astronomy at Arizona State University, specializing in the study of planetary geology, geochemistry and mineralogy using data obtained from telescopes and from various spacecraft missions.
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Dr. Bell's active research has involved the NASA Mars Pathfinder, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR), 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the Mars Science Laboratory missions. His book Postcards from Mars includes many images taken by the Mars rovers. Dr. Bell is currently an editor of the space science journal Icarus and president of The Planetary Society.
He has served as the lead scientist in charge of the Panorami