Arthur Miller. Karel Čapek. Karel Čapek (Czech: [ˈkarɛl ˈtʃapɛk] ( )) (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was a Czech writer of the early 20th century. He is best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts and play R.U.R. which popularized the word robot (the second "R" of the title stands for "Robots").[1] Arthur Miller wrote in 1990: "I read Karel Čapek for the first time when I was a college student long ago in the Thirties. There was no writer like him...prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination...he is a joy to read Biography[edit] Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings. Čapek became enamored with the visual arts in his teenage years, especially Cubism. Writing[edit] Karel Čapek wrote with intelligence and humor on a wide variety of subjects.
House of Čapek brothers in Prague 10, Vinohrady. Derek Walcott. Ivo Andrić. Ivan "Ivo" Andrić (pronounced [ǐʋan ǐːʋɔ ǎːndritɕ]) (9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist,[1][2] short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3] His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. Biography[edit] Andric started his literary career as a poet.
In 1914 he was one of the contributors to Hrvatska mlada lirika (Young Croatian Lyrics).[8] Under the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later Kingdom of Yugoslavia) Andrić became a civil servant, first in the Ministry of Faiths and then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he pursued a successful diplomatic career as Deputy Foreign Minister. During his diplomatic service, he worked in embassy at Holy See (1920), consulates in Bucharest, Trieste and Graz (1924), consulates in Paris and Marseilles (1927), and embassy in Madrid (1928). He was buried in the Belgrade New Cemetery, in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens.[13] Works[edit]
The secret British life of Vladimir Nabokov - The Kompass. Nabokov began learning English before he learned Russian; he was educated at Oxford; and it was in London that he decided to become a writer. Source: Getty Images/ Fotobank This spring, the stage versions of three of Nabokov's short stories will be shown in London for the first time. Ahead of this premeire, the Kompass reveals the writer's ties with Britain - which were stronger than many think April 21, 2014 12:51 PM Yolanda Delgado Vladimir Nabokov (Russia,1899 - Switzerland,1977) was proud to have been born on 23 April, the same day as William Shakespeare.
He grew up reading the author of Hamlet, but also John Keats, Robert Browning, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. The Nabokovs were an aristocratic Russian family with European tastes, keen on English items like Pears soap, Golden Syrup at breakfast, bath salts and puzzles – products they would buy at the famous English Shop on Nevsky Avenue in St Petersburg, where they lived. Thomas MacDermot. Thomas MacDermot (1870-1933) was a Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor, editing the Jamaica Times for over twenty years. He was "probably the first Jamaican writer to assert the claim of the West Indies to a distinctive place within English-speaking culture".[1] Biography[edit] Thomas MacDermot was born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, of Irish ancestry.
He worked to promote Jamaican literature through all of his writing, starting a weekly short story contest in the Jamaica Times in 1899. Notable among the young writers he helped and encouraged is Claude McKay.[1] In 1903, he started the All Jamaica Library, a series of novellas and short stories written by Jamaicans about Jamaica that were reasonably priced to encourage local readers. MacDermot retired because of illness in 1922. Bibliography[edit] Becka's Buckra Baby (1903), Times Printery, Jamaica.One Brown Girl And ¼ (1909), Times Printery, Jamaica.Orange Valley and Other Poems (1951), Kingston, Jamaica: Pioneer Press.
References[edit] Olaf Stapledon. William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 – 6 September 1950) — known as Olaf Stapledon — was a British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction. Life[edit] Stapledon was born in Seacombe, Wallasey, on the Wirral Peninsula near Liverpool, the only son of William Clibbert Stapledon and Emmeline Miller. The first six years of his life were spent with his parents at Port Said. He was educated at Abbotsholme School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he acquired a BA in Modern History (Second Class) in 1909 and a MA in 1913.[1][2] After a brief stint as a teacher at Manchester Grammar School he worked in shipping offices in Liverpool and Port Said from 1910 to 1913. During World War I he served as a conscientious objector with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in France and Belgium from July 1915 to January 1919.
In 1940 the family built and moved into Simon's Field, in Caldy, in the Wirral. Works[edit] Bibliography[edit] Fiction[edit] Non-fiction[edit] Poetry[edit] See also[edit] Happiness in short pants: The joyful exile of Vladimir Nabokov | Russia Beyond The Headlines. A New York Times journalist interviewed Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux, in the hotel he had lived in with his wife Vera since they had left the United States, where they had spent more than 20 years of their lives. At the time, the writer was 72 years old. The novel Lolita (1955) had brought him success, but had also closed the doors on the Nobel Prize to him. In Switzerland, Nabokov was reunited with the paradise of his Russian infancy.
The lakes, the mountains, his adored Vera (his loyal collaborator) and his son Dmitri, who at the time lived in Milan, were all he needed to devote himself to his two passions: writing and collecting butterflies. Treasures of childhood In that interview, journalist Aldem Whitman asked Nabokov if his life at all resembled what he had imagined it would be like when he was young. Nabokov reading his poem “To My Youth,” translated into English by himself. “At the age of 12, my fondest dream was a visit to the Karakorum range in search of butterflies. James Baldwin. James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Baldwin's essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.[1] Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976).
Early life[edit] When Baldwin was an infant, his mother, Emma Berdis Jones, divorced his father amid his drug abuse and moved to the Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. There, she married a preacher, David Baldwin. The family was very poor. James spent much time caring for his several younger brothers and sisters. His stepfather died of tuberculosis in summer of 1943 soon before James turned 19. Schooling[edit] Religion[edit] Greenwich Village[edit] Norman Mailer. Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate. His first novel was The Naked and the Dead, published in 1948. His best work was widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, which was published in 1979, and for which he won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Mailer's book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award.
Along with the likes of Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the style and devices of literary fiction onto fact-based journalism. Mailer was also known for his essays, the most renowned of which was The White Negro. In 1955, Mailer and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts and politics oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village. Early life[edit] Novels[edit] William S. Burroughs.