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Odd Bang-Hansen (1908 - 1984)

"Bang"

Bang-Hansen, Odd , cand. philol., p.adr. Storengvn. 14, Jar, f. 9. april 1908, sønn av sokneprest Lauritz Bang-Hansen og Astri Halvorsen. Art. 1926. Spr.-hist. embetseks. 1934, bifag: tysk, geografi, h...

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Odd Bang-Hansen (1908 - 1984)

"Bang"

Bang-Hansen, Odd , cand. philol., p.adr. Storengvn. 14, Jar, f. 9. april 1908, sønn av sokneprest Lauritz Bang-Hansen og Astri Halvorsen. Art. 1926. Spr.-hist. embetseks. 1934, bifag: tysk, geografi, h...

5/16/2024

Donald Barthelme, Jr. MP (1931 - 1989)

Donald Barthelme, author of short fiction and novels, was born on April 7, 1931, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Helen (Bechtold) and Donald Barthelme, Sr., a professor at the University of H...

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Donald Barthelme, Jr. MP (1931 - 1989)

Donald Barthelme, author of short fiction and novels, was born on April 7, 1931, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Helen (Bechtold) and Donald Barthelme, Sr., a professor at the University of H...

5/11/2024

Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (...

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Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (...

5/7/2024

Biography Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television...

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Biography Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television...

5/5/2024

Kathy Acker MP (1947 - 1997)

"Karen Alexander"

The New York Times once called her books "a rock 'n' roll version of the Critique of Pure Reason by the Marquis de Sade as performed by the Three Stooges". Biographical note NYU Special Collections S...

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Kathy Acker MP (1947 - 1997)

"Karen Alexander"

The New York Times once called her books "a rock 'n' roll version of the Critique of Pure Reason by the Marquis de Sade as performed by the Three Stooges". Biographical note NYU Special Collections S...

5/4/2024

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the...

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Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the...

5/3/2024

William Gaddis MP (1922 - 1998)

William Thomas Gaddis, Jr . (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist.[1][2] The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100...

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William Gaddis MP (1922 - 1998)

William Thomas Gaddis, Jr . (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist.[1][2] The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100...

5/3/2024

Premio Nóbel de Literatura, 1982.* Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez , (in Spanish) * Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Spanish pronunciation: [%C9%A1a%CB%88%CE%B2%C9%BEjel ɡarˈsia...

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Premio Nóbel de Literatura, 1982.* Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez , (in Spanish) * Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Spanish pronunciation: [%C9%A1a%CB%88%CE%B2%C9%BEjel ɡarˈsia...

5/3/2024

Italo Calvino MP (1923 - 1985)

Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics colle...

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Italo Calvino MP (1923 - 1985)

Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics colle...

5/3/2024

John Barth MP (1930 - 2024)

John Simmons Barth (/bɑːrθ/;[1] May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were publish...

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John Barth MP (1930 - 2024)

John Simmons Barth (/bɑːrθ/;[1] May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were publish...

5/3/2024

Chariton of Aphrodisias MP (deceased)

Chariton of Aphrodisias Chariton of Aphrodisias (Greek: Χαρίτων ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς)[ 1 ] was the author of an ancient Greek novel probably titled Callirhoe (based on the subscription in the sole surviving m...

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Chariton of Aphrodisias MP (deceased)

Chariton of Aphrodisias Chariton of Aphrodisias (Greek: Χαρίτων ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς)[ 1 ] was the author of an ancient Greek novel probably titled Callirhoe (based on the subscription in the sole surviving m...

5/2/2024

Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Awa...

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Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Awa...

4/27/2024

Aurelio Alvero MP (1913 - 1958)

"Magtanggol Asa"

Aurelio Alvero was a brilliant intellectual who was convicted of collaboration with the Japanese. He was in prison in 1945-47 and 1950-52. Sources * Grant K. Goodman (1996). Aurelio Alvero: Traitor or ...

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Aurelio Alvero MP (1913 - 1958)

"Magtanggol Asa"

Aurelio Alvero was a brilliant intellectual who was convicted of collaboration with the Japanese. He was in prison in 1945-47 and 1950-52. Sources * Grant K. Goodman (1996). Aurelio Alvero: Traitor or ...

4/19/2024

Biography Aram Saroyan (born September 25, 1943) is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which incl...

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Biography Aram Saroyan (born September 25, 1943) is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which incl...

4/16/2024

Thommayanti MP (1936 - 2021)

"Wimon Klamsathien", "Eed"

Thommayanti was a Thai novelist and politician. Wikipedia

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Thommayanti MP (1936 - 2021)

"Wimon Klamsathien", "Eed"

Thommayanti was a Thai novelist and politician. Wikipedia

3/27/2024
Photo from La Vanguardia (6 August 1936, p. 5): https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.do?path=1000380857&posicion=5&presentacion=pagina Original file: https://ibb.co/Wn5f5zw or https://imgbox.com/L8jU7V5M or https://pixhost.to/show/224/451740636_bvph20160000757_19360806_0005.jpg Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Ilaw_at_Panitik%27_celebra_su_vig%C3%A9simo_cuarto_aniversario.jpg This work was first published in the Philippines and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines. The work meets one of the following criteria: It is an anonymous or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is an audiovisual or photographic work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year of its publication It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author) Important note: Works of foreign (non-U.S.) origin must be out of copyright or freely licensed in both their home country and the United States in order to be accepted on Commons. Works of Philippine origin that have entered the public domain in the U.S. due to certain circumstances (such as publication in noncompliance with U.S. copyright formalities) may have had their U.S. copyright restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) if the work was under copyright in its country of origin on the date that the URAA took effect in that country. (For the Philippines, the URAA took effect on January 1, 1996.) This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

Fausto Galauran MP (1904 - 1971)

Fausto Galauran was a Filipino physician and writer. Wikipedia (in Tagalog) Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1735)

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Photo from La Vanguardia (6 August 1936, p. 5): https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.do?path=1000380857&posicion=5&presentacion=pagina Original file: https://ibb.co/Wn5f5zw or https://imgbox.com/L8jU7V5M or https://pixhost.to/show/224/451740636_bvph20160000757_19360806_0005.jpg Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Ilaw_at_Panitik%27_celebra_su_vig%C3%A9simo_cuarto_aniversario.jpg This work was first published in the Philippines and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines. The work meets one of the following criteria: It is an anonymous or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is an audiovisual or photographic work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year of its publication It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author) Important note: Works of foreign (non-U.S.) origin must be out of copyright or freely licensed in both their home country and the United States in order to be accepted on Commons. Works of Philippine origin that have entered the public domain in the U.S. due to certain circumstances (such as publication in noncompliance with U.S. copyright formalities) may have had their U.S. copyright restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) if the work was under copyright in its country of origin on the date that the URAA took effect in that country. (For the Philippines, the URAA took effect on January 1, 1996.) This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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Fausto Galauran MP (1904 - 1971)

Fausto Galauran was a Filipino physician and writer. Wikipedia (in Tagalog) Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1735)

3/6/2024

Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera MP (1845 - 1909)

"Enriqueta Pradel"

Mercedes Cabello Llosa de Carbonera was a Peruvian writer. Influenced by positivism and naturalism, she was one of the main the initiators of literary realism in Peruvian novels. She wrote six novels o...

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Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera MP (1845 - 1909)

"Enriqueta Pradel"

Mercedes Cabello Llosa de Carbonera was a Peruvian writer. Influenced by positivism and naturalism, she was one of the main the initiators of literary realism in Peruvian novels. She wrote six novels o...

3/2/2024

Rogelio Sikat MP (1940 - 1997)

Rogelio Sikat was a prolific Filipino novelist, playwright and short story writer. Sikat is best known for his classic masterpieces particularly "Impeng Negro", a short story based on a half-black, hal...

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Rogelio Sikat MP (1940 - 1997)

Rogelio Sikat was a prolific Filipino novelist, playwright and short story writer. Sikat is best known for his classic masterpieces particularly "Impeng Negro", a short story based on a half-black, hal...

1/22/2024

D. Casey (born 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and translator. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1989 for Spartina.[1]Contents [show] Life[edit] Casey went to...

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D. Casey (born 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and translator. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1989 for Spartina.[1]Contents [show] Life[edit] Casey went to...

1/11/2024

Actor Robby Benson is best known for his roles in films such as Ice Castles, Ode to Billy Joe, The Chosen, Tribute, Running Brave and Harry and Son . Benson is also an author, having penned the 2007 no...

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Actor Robby Benson is best known for his roles in films such as Ice Castles, Ode to Billy Joe, The Chosen, Tribute, Running Brave and Harry and Son . Benson is also an author, having penned the 2007 no...

1/10/2024