Author Listings (Continental European)
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| Jurgen Habermas is a German sociologist who studied at the universities of Gottingen, Zurich, and Bonn. He taught at Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, and Heidelberg before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. His works, widely translated, have made him one of the most influential social theorists....[more] |
| W. S. Merwin, 1927 - Poet W. S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927. He has authored over fifteen books of poetry and some of those titles include "The River Sound" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), which was named a New York Times notable book of the year; "The Vixen" (1996), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; "T....[more] |
| Anna Andreëvna Gorenko (June 23, 1889 – March 5, 1966) is one of the best-known Russian poets of the twentieth century. Her poem Requiem is considered one of her masterpiece. Because her father did not consider poetry writing a respectable pursuit for his daughter and did not want her poetry associated with the fami....[more] |
| Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, is most well-known for his fairy tales, which include ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Thumbelina’, and ‘The Ugly Duckling’. Andersen was born to poor parents, a washerwoman and a shoemaker, in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. Odense was the only town outside of Denmark’s capital to have a thea....[more] |
| Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, and critic who coined the term “surrealism.” His play, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, is considered one of the earliest surrealist works. He is known as Guillaume Apollinaire.
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| Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 – July 6, 1533) was an Italian poet best known for his epic poem, Orlando Furioso (1516). Orlando Furioso is translated as “The Frenzy of Orlando” or “Mad Orlando.” It is a romantic epic poem that continues the earlier, incomplete romantic poem Orlando Innamorato (English translatio....[more] |
| The famous poet, and namesake of the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, was born in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1926. She attended several universities before receiving her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. Her first job post-graduation was at a local radio station where she worked as a scriptwriter and ....[more] |
| Not many struggling authors would declare that their newest project was going to make them a genius or even would set out to write a series of books that would try to encompass all elements of society in the first place. The result of Honoré de Balzac’s unique ambition was his life-work and masterpiece, “La Comédie hum....[more] |
| Charles Baudelaire shocked his French contemporaries so much with his decadent and disturbing artistic visions that his surname became a byword for such a style. Born in 1821, Baudelaire was raised in Paris where his father was a priest. Formal education held little interest for Baudelaire as he was expelled from his u....[more] |
| William Beckford (1760-1844) is most commonly known for his works in literature, but he was also a politician and collector and patron of the arts. Beckford, who was raised in London, inherited a large fortune at the age of ten which included several sugar plantations in Jamaica and land at Fonthill in Wiltshire. He wo....[more] |
| Julien Benda (1867-1956) was a French philosopher and essayist that staunchly supported intellectualism, reason, and classicism and criticized the popular intellectuals of his era for their indifference to these values.
Benda’s first major work was a sharp critique of modernists called Belphégor (1919), and he co....[more] |
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