Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethno

Was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies, significant figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.

Is a Ghanaian philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and mor

Is a Ghanaian philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. He is currently the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.

Of particular importance in most of his music is the concept of repeating loops, ostinatos, or isorh

Of particular importance in most of his music is the concept of repeating loops, ostinatos, or isorhythms of different lengths going out of phase with each other; the idea leads to simultaneous layers of different, mutually prime tempo relationships in his Disklavier and electronic works, and is used in a less obvious structural way in his live-ensemble music.

Was a Japanese photographer with United Press International who received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for

Was a Japanese photographer with United Press International who received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. Two of these photographs were selected as "World Press Photos of the Year" in 1965 and 1966. The 1965 photograph shows a Vietnamese mother and children wading across river to escape a US bombing.[1] The famous 1966 photograph[2] shows U.S soldiers of the 1st Infantry division dragging a dead Viet Cong fighter to a burial site behind their M113 armored personnel carrier, after he was killed in a fierce night attack by several Viet Cong battalions in Tân Bình against U.S. and Australian forces.

The pen name of a Japanese author of novels, short stories, and Kabuki plays who was active from the

The pen name of a Japanese author of novels, short stories, and Kabuki plays who was active from the late Meiji era to the early Showa periods. His real name was Kyotaro Izumi (? ???, Izumi Kyotaro?). Like Natsume Soseki and other Japanese authors with pen names, Kyoka is usually known by that pen name rather than his family name.Kyoka first gained acclaim for his “The Operating Room” (???, Gekashitsu?) and “Night Watchman” (????, Yakojunsa?); his most famous work is “The Holy Man of Mount Koya” (???, Koyahijiri?). Known for a characteristic brand of Romanticism preferring tales of the supernatural heavily influenced by works of the earlier Edo period in Japanese arts and letters

A Japanese author.Hayashi was born in Nagasaki and spent the years from 1931-1945 with her family in

A Japanese author.Hayashi was born in Nagasaki and spent the years from 1931-1945 with her family in Shanghai. She returned to Nagasaki in March 1945 and enrolled in Nagasaki Girls' High School, where she was mobilized in the Mitsubishi Munitions Factory. She was working at the factory when the atomic bomb blast destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Hayashi was seriously ill for two months, and suffered afterwards from fragile health. She later studied nursing in a special course the Welfare Faculty for Women attached to Nagasaki Medical School, but left before graduation. She started to write in 1962.

Was a Japanese actress, voice actress and writer of children's books.Her father was Kunio Kishida, a

Was a Japanese actress, voice actress and writer of children's books.Her father was Kunio Kishida, a playwright and the founder of the Bungaku-za. She became an actress in 1950, and starred in a Yukio Mishima production of Salome (1960). Her film and television drama credits number in the hundreds. Among them are four Taiga drama series on NHK television with roles such as Aguri (the wife of Asano Naganori and Yodo-Dono (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi). She appeared in various roles, including acting and narrating, in various Ooku series on television. In the series Gokenin Zankuro she portrayed the mother of the title character (played by Ken Watanabe), and narrated a Lone Wolf and Cub television series.

A Japanese mangaka whose manga are popular for their unorthodox style and controversial topics, such

A Japanese mangaka whose manga are popular for their unorthodox style and controversial topics, such as sex, sadomasochism, drugs, homosexuality, rape, and murder. The Tokyo-born Okazaki often focuses on urban Japanese life in the capital from the 1980s and 90s from a female perspective. Her writings are also studded with modern jargon. Okazaki's manga are not typical, in that while it is a part of the "shojo manga" (girl manga) genre, her works are not conservative enough to fit the typical shojo manga genre completely.

Was a late Edo period gesaku author best known for works such as Nanso Satomi Hakkenden and Chinsets

Was a late Edo period gesaku author best known for works such as Nanso Satomi Hakkenden and Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki.Born as Takizawa Okuni (?????), he wrote under the pen name Kyokutei Bakin (?????) which is a pun as the kanji may also be read as Kuruwa de Makoto meaning a man who is truly devoted to the courtesans of the pleasure districts. Later in life he took the first name of Toku (??). Modern scholarship generally refers to him as Takizawa Bakin, a combination of his surname and pen name, or just as Bakin.

Is a Greek composer. His body of work consists of a large number of compositions: symphonic, choral,

Is a Greek composer. His body of work consists of a large number of compositions: symphonic, choral, ballet and theatre music, chamber, electronic, film scores, pieces for solo instruments, pieces in jazz and fusion style, songs in Greek and world poems.

Was a prolific Ukrainian composer, conductor, critic, and teacher. He was also an Orthodox Priest an

Was a prolific Ukrainian composer, conductor, critic, and teacher. He was also an Orthodox Priest and the Minister of Education of the shortlived Ukrainian People's Republic. Kyrylo Stetsenko was born in Kvitkiv, in the land of Cherkashchyna, in Ukraine.