Famous People with Name Hortense

Hortense Calisher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hortense Calisher: is an American writer of fiction.Calisher involves her closely investigated, penetrating characters in complicated plotlines that unfold with shocks and surprises in allusive, nuanced language with a distinctively elegiac voice, sometimes compared with Eudora Welty, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Henry James. Critics generally consider Calisher a type of neo-realist and often both condemn and praise for her extensive explorations of characters and their social worlds. She was definitely at odds with the prevailing writing style of minimalism that characterized fiction writing in the 1970s and 1980s and that emphasized a sparse, non-romantic style with no room for expressionism or romanticism. As an anti-minimalist, Calisher is admired for her elliptical style in which more is hinted at than stated, and she is also praised as a social realist and critic in the vein of Honore Balzac and Edith Wharton.

Hortense Béwouda            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Hortense Béwouda: is a Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.Her personal best time is 51.04 seconds, achieved in June 2004 in Algiers. She currently holds the national record in 4 x 400 metres relay with 3:27.08 minutes, achieved together with teammates M