Author Listings (Continental European)
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| Born in Basle, Switzerland in 1907, Frithjof Schuon was the twentieth century's pre-eminent spokesman for the perennialist school of comparative religious thought.
The leitmotif of Schuon's work was foreshadowed in an encounter during his youth with a marabout who had accompanied some members of his Senegalese village....[more] |
| Inara Cedrins received her B.A. in Writing from Columbia College in Chicago and her M.A. in Arts Administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She is multiculturally oriented: of Latvian descent, she translates poetry and prose from the Latvian into English. Her anthology of contemporary Latvian poe....[more] |
| J.M. Coetzee's full name is John Michael Coetzee. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940, Coetzee is a writer and critic who uses the political situation in his homeland as a backdrop for many of his novels. Coetzee published his first work of fiction, Dusklands, in 1974. Another book, Boyhood, loosely chronicles an ....[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] |
| Judith Moffett was born in Louisville in 1942. She is an English professor, a poet, a Swedish translator, and the author of eleven books in five genres, including four science-fiction novels and a Pulphouse Press story collection. Moffett earned a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught creati....[more] |
| For many, an illustrated version of Aesop’s Fables is ubiquitous with childhood. Born a slave, Aesop and his fables have become a staple of popular culture for generations. While his birthplace is a matter of much scholarly debate with Egypt, Ethiopia and Athens being presented as possibilities, some facts about his li....[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] |
| 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.
Apollinaire....[more] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| and short stories, was born in Dublin in 1906. Graduating from Trinity College, Beckett found work as a teacher. He soon befriended James Joyce, even taking dictation for parts of “Finnegans Wake”. Beckett began writing, starting as a poet but then moving on to essays and finally publishing his first novel, “More Prick....[more] |
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