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Is a prolific Danish writer primarily associated with the 1960 new-realism wave in Danish literature

Is a prolific Danish writer primarily associated with the 1960 new-realism wave in Danish literature, along with Christian Kampmann and Henrik Stangerup. Bodelsen prefers the social-realistic style of writing, often thrillers about middle-class people that faces the consequences of materialism, which often clashes with their human values. His thrillers also experiment with ordinary persons tempted by e.g. theft and border-morale issues.

Was a Danish poet and journalist. He is notable for his epigrams, ballads, occasional poems and epis

Was a Danish poet and journalist. He is notable for his epigrams, ballads, occasional poems and epistles, as well as for publishing the first Danish newspaper, the monthly Den Danske Mercurius, written in verse entirely by him.

Is a Danish psychologist and writer.Anders Westenholz' works are generally divided into four groups:

Is a Danish psychologist and writer.Anders Westenholz' works are generally divided into four groups: works of fiction, works on psychology, biographical works on Danish Sumatra rubber plantation manager Vilhelm Jung and works on his own famous great aunt Karen Blixen's life and works. He is credited as the ideas man behind two episodes of the popular Danish tv-series Huset på Christianshavn, namely #64, Karlas kald (English: Karla's Calling), scripted by Karen Smith[disambiguation needed] and #68, Dagen efter dagen derpå (English: The Day after the Following Day), scripted by Henning Bahs.

Was an American short story writer, essayist, and autobiographer.Andre Dubus was born in Lake Charle

Was an American short story writer, essayist, and autobiographer.Andre Dubus was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the oldest child of a Cajun-Irish Catholic family. His surname is pronounced "Duh-BYOOSE", with the accent on the second syllable to rhyme with the noun "excuse." Dubus grew up in the Bayou country in Lafayette, Louisiana and was educated by the Christian Brothers, a Catholic parochial school that emphasized literature and writing.

Barrett received her B.A. in biology from Union College and briefly attended a Ph.D. program in zool

Barrett received her B.A. in biology from Union College and briefly attended a Ph.D. program in zoology. She began writing fiction seriously in her thirties, but was relatively unknown until the publication of Ship Fever, a collection of short stories which won the National Book Award in 1996. Barrett received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001 and her book Servants of the Map was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Barrett is particularly well known as a writer of historical fiction and her work reflects her lifelong interest in science as many of her characters are scientists,

Is an English journalist, currently co-anchoring ITV Wales's evening news programme Wales Tonight.Be

Is an English journalist, currently co-anchoring ITV Wales's evening news programme Wales Tonight.Benfield started her journalism and media career as a local radio reporter for County Sound Radio 1566 AM. She then joined local television station MyTV Port

Is an Italian writer. He is considered one of the greatest Italian writers of both 20th and 21st cen

Is an Italian writer. He is considered one of the greatest Italian writers of both 20th and 21st centuries.Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing

An Australian writer and novelist.Goldsmith was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to an Australian-Jewish

An Australian writer and novelist.Goldsmith was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to an Australian-Jewish family. She started learning the piano as a young child, and music remains an abiding passion. She initially trained as a speech pathologist and worked for several years with children with severe communication impairment until becoming a full-time writer in the late 1980s. From 1987 has taught creative writing at Deakin University.

Is a Washington, D.C.-based American television journalist, anchor, reporter, and commentator for NB

Is a Washington, D.C.-based American television journalist, anchor, reporter, and commentator for NBC News. She is NBC News' Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, and has recently reported on the 2008 Race for the White House for NBC News broadcasts, including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today, and MSNBC.

Is an Italian poet.His father, Giovanni (born November 18, 1888), had received degrees from the Éco

Is an Italian poet.His father, Giovanni (born November 18, 1888), had received degrees from the École supèrieure de peinture at Brussels (1911, specializing in trompe-l'oeil in wood and marble) and the Academy of Fine Arts at Bologna (1913, diploma di pro

Was the son a distiller, with the same name and was born in Copenhagen, Denmark Sept. 9, 1782. [1]He

Was the son a distiller, with the same name and was born in Copenhagen, Denmark Sept. 9, 1782. [1]He went to Copenhagen University in 1798, taking the philolog. exam in 1799 and in 1800 the Philosophicum exam. Without Friends, without hope and without bread, he left Denmark in 1802 and traveled to England, where he long resided, often under distress. He contributed to the spread of knowledge regarding Danish Literature and Danish conditions

Was a German composer and organist. He was born in Mühlberg, near Gotha, and studied music and law.

Was a German composer and organist. He was born in Mühlberg, near Gotha, and studied music and law. At some point in his early life he moved to nearby Erfurt where he may have studied with Johann Pachelbel.[1] He worked as organist in various churches in Erfurt: Reglerkirche, Andreaskirche, and Kaufmannskirche. He died in Erfurt at the age of 29.[2]

Was a German composer whose works featured in the collection of J. S. Bach. He was son-in-law of the

Was a German composer whose works featured in the collection of J. S. Bach. He was son-in-law of the English emigre musician William Brade.[1]

Was a Greek surrealist poet and the first Greek psychoanalyst.

Was a Greek surrealist poet and the first Greek psychoanalyst.

Was a German composer. A motet Beati omnes, qui timent Dominum à 12 is recorded on Hanseatic Weddin

Was a German composer. A motet Beati omnes, qui timent Dominum à 12 is recorded on Hanseatic Wedding music. Weser-Renaissance Ensemble Bremen dir. Manfred Cordes. Cpo

Was a German composer and organist, of Bohemian birth, of the early to middle Baroque era. He was on

Was a German composer and organist, of Bohemian birth, of the early to middle Baroque era. He was one of the most significant and popular composers of sacred music in Germany in the middle 17th century.Hammerschmidt wrote motets, concertos and arias, and almost all of his output is sacred vocal music in the concertato style. According to Manfred Bukofzer (1947), he "watered down the achievements of Schütz for the multitude." Many of his compositions are in the form of the chorale monody, an adaptation of the early Baroque Italian form to a sacred, and specifically Protestant, purpose. Indeed Hammerschmidt represents the second generation of composers who distilled a native German Baroque tradition out of forms and styles imported from Italy.

Was a German composer of the Baroque age. He was a contemporary of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, w

Was a German composer of the Baroque age. He was a contemporary of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, whose predecessor he was in Salzburg in his office of Inspector and "Hofkapellmeister", i.e. director of the court orchestra.[1] Like Biber, Hofer was noted for his large scaled polychoral sacred works. It has been suggested that Hofer was the composer of the famous Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci, which earlier had been attributed to Orazio Benevoli,[2] although it is now accepted that it was the work of Biber.[3]

Was a German violinist and composer. Romberg learned the violin from his musician father Gerhard Hei

Was a German violinist and composer. Romberg learned the violin from his musician father Gerhard Heinrich Romberg and first performed in public at the age of six. In addition to touring Europe, Romberg also joined the Münster Court Orchestra. He joined the court orchestra of the Prince Elector in Bonn (conducted by the Kapellmeister Andrea Luchesi) in 1790, where he met the young Beethoven. He moved to Hamburg in 1793 due to wartime upheavals and joined the Hamburg Opera Orchestra. Romberg's first opera, 'Der Rabe', premiered there in 1794. He also composed his own setting of Messiah (Der Messias).

Was a contemporary of Dionysios Solomos and one of the greatest Greek writers of the 19th century.

Was a contemporary of Dionysios Solomos and one of the greatest Greek writers of the 19th century.

Was a German composer and organist of the North German school. he was the younger brother of portrai

Was a German composer and organist of the North German school. he was the younger brother of portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller. Nothing certain is known about his musical education, though he may have learnt from Franz Tunder (1614-1667), organist of St. Mary's Church, Lübeck, or his own uncle Matthias Weckmann (c.1616-1674), organist of St. Jacob's Church, Hamburg. In 1667, he became organist of the Marktkirche in Hanover, succeeding Melchior Schildt (1592-1667).

Is a composer who was born in Brühl (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). In his youth, he received pi

Is a composer who was born in Brühl (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). In his youth, he received piano lessons and wrote his first compositions. After finishing high school, he studied History and Philosophy in Düsseldorf. He also had private composition lessons with David Graham and Ratko Delorko. During 1992 - 1998 he studied composition at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen, with Wolfgang Hufschmidt. At the Rotterdam Hogeschool voor Muziek en Dans, he completed his studies in composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans and Klaas de Vries in April 2002. He participated in masterclasses of Manfred Trojahn, Edison Denisov and George Crumb, amongst others.

Was a Greek-American composer, born in Salonika, Greece, on March 7, 1930. He was a Composer-in-Resi

Was a Greek-American composer, born in Salonika, Greece, on March 7, 1930. He was a Composer-in-Residence for many years at the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, working with conductors such as Mitchell, Rostropovich, Dorati and Leonard Slatkin. He composed around 100 compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles or solo instruments, including the Aegean Festival Overture which became a popular piece with the US wind bands. Grants and awards he received include a National Endowment for the Arts grant and the ASCAP award.

Is a composer, lyricist, singer and TV presenter. He is the brother of Thanos Mikroutsikos and is co

Is a composer, lyricist, singer and TV presenter. He is the brother of Thanos Mikroutsikos and is considered to be Greece's "reality king". His top hits were "the kiklopaki (My Little Cyclops)" or "oso girizei i gi (As Long As The Earth Turns Around)". During the 1990s Mikroutsikos presented the famous TV game show "to megalo pazari (The Great Bazaar - Greek version of Let's Make a Deal)". Moreover by moving from Mega Channel to ANT1 he was the first to introduce reality shows to the Greek public. His shows have been criticised by many, despite good TV ratings. Andreas presented the first and second series of the famous reality show "Big Brother" on the ANT1 channel. He also presented ANT1's music academy "Fame Story"

Was a German organist and composer. His surviving compositions are now few, since World War II led t

Was a German organist and composer. His surviving compositions are now few, since World War II led to the destruction of all his free organ compositions and a work for chorus and orchestra entitled Zum frohen Empfang Grossherzogs Carl Fürsten Primas. The manuscript Mus.40035 of the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, gave his name as the composer of variations eight and three of the organ partita on Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr, BWV 771, once attributed to J. S. Bach; he may have been the composer of all seventeen verses. His surviving organ works, which are chorale settings in the tradition of the South German school, appear in the modern editions Orgelchoräle um Joh. Seb. Bach, ed. G. Frotscher (Leipzig, 1937), and Andreas Nicolaus Vetter (1666–1734): Koraalbewerkingen, ed. E. Kooiman (Hilversum, 1989). The manuscripts of many of these works were also lost in World War II.

Was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the minority of composers from the Low

Was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the minority of composers from the Low Countries who stayed in his native land throughout the turbulent period of religious conflict in the late 16th century, and was a skilled composer of chansons, motets and madrigals.