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Is an African American author, political activist, college professor, and convicted felon. He is bes

Is an African American author, political activist, college professor, and convicted felon. He is best known as the founder of Kwanzaa, a week-long Pan-African celebration observed almost exclusively in the United States each year from December 26 to Janua

Is an Israeli writer and media professional, and author of the novel Beaufort (2005, original Hebrew

Is an Israeli writer and media professional, and author of the novel Beaufort (2005, original Hebrew If There is a Paradise) for which he won the 2006 Sapir Prize for Literature and the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Literature. The novel was adapted in 2007 into the successful, Academy Award-nominated Israeli film Beaufort.

Is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, and translator, and a member of the New York School.

Is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, and translator, and a member of the New York School. His books include Great Balls of Fire, The Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Ron (with Jim Dine), Toujours l'amour, Tulsa Kid, Triangles in the Afternoon, Ted

Is a contemporary American poet. He has written and edited 26 books to date. Between 1979 & 2004, Si

Is a contemporary American poet. He has written and edited 26 books to date. Between 1979 & 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, entitled The Alphabet. He has now begun writing a new poem entitled Universe, the first section of which appears to be called Revelator.

Was an American novelist.Born in Brooklyn, Ms. Jaffe grew up in affluent circumstances on the Upper

Was an American novelist.Born in Brooklyn, Ms. Jaffe grew up in affluent circumstances on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the only child of Samuel Jaffe, an elementary-school principal, and his first wife, Diana (née Ginsberg). Her maternal grandfather was Moses Ginsberg, a millionaire construction magnate who built the Carlyle Hotel.

Was a South African author. Born in Calvinia, South Africa. Her father was a lecturer of Afrikaans a

Was a South African author. Born in Calvinia, South Africa. Her father was a lecturer of Afrikaans and Dutch, before the family moved to Calvinia and bought Doega farm.Rona studied Afrikaans and music at Stellenbosch University and obtained a BA degree in 1953, a Secondary Teacher's Diploma in 1954 and a Performer's Licentiate (Piano). She also studied music for one year in Amsterdam. Rona gave music, recorder and piano lessons for many years.

Was an Australian poet and poetry editor, artist and art lecturer. He was one of the Melbourne poets

Was an Australian poet and poetry editor, artist and art lecturer. He was one of the Melbourne poets, and had a long tenure as poetry editor of The Age.Simpson was one of a group of Melbourne poets, including Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Vincent Buckley, Noel Macainsh, and Alexander Craig, who came together in the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Gorton writes that this was "a combative time in Australian poetry" with different "cliques" operating, including the Jindyworobaks, the New Poets and the Melbourne poets[1] The Melbourne poets were "deliberately prosaic ... finding their poetry in suburbs and ordinary days". [1] Poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe reiterated this in his obituary of Simpson in The Age on 10 October 2002. He wrote that Simpson "was a poet who put the Australian suburbs on the map. Verse had long been under the thumb of the landed gentry and Sydney quasi-bohemians, but he stuck resolutely, quietly, diurnally to the way most of us live".

Was a British composer and conductor best known for his film scores.Ron Goodwin was born in Plymouth

Was a British composer and conductor best known for his film scores.Ron Goodwin was born in Plymouth in Devon. He went to Pinner County Grammar School, in Middlesex. He was taught the piano from an early age, and later studied the trumpet in London at the Guildhall School of Music. His first job in music was as a copyist and arranger working for a variety of publishing companies and bands, including some attached to the British Broadcasting Corporation. Through the documentary film business he was introduced to music for the movie industry, which he later said was "a very good training". He worked as a ghostwriter for Phil Green, Stanley Black, Geraldo and Peter Yorke amongst others. He later worked as a conductor in recording sessions for a number of popular music artists, Petula Clark among them.

Is an author, playwright and stage actor, well known in the United Kingdom as a national television

Is an author, playwright and stage actor, well known in the United Kingdom as a national television newscaster.Gordon Honeycombe was born in Karachi, in British India, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at University College, Oxford, from which he

Was a Welsh poet and Anglican clergyman, noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of

Was a Welsh poet and Anglican clergyman, noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. He was the best known Welsh poet of his day.R. S. Thomas was born in Cardiff, the only child of Thomas Hubert and Margaret (nee Davis). The family moved to Holyhead in 1918 because of his father's work in the merchant navy. He was awarded a bursary in 1932 to study at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he read Classics. In 1936, having completed his theological training at St. Michael's College, Llandaff, he was ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church in Wales. From 1936 to 1940 he was the curate of Chirk, Denbighshire, where he met his future wife, Mildred (Elsi) Eldridge, an English artist. He subsequently became curate at Tallarn Green, Flintshire.

Was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skyn

Was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of .38 Special founder and vocalist Donnie Van Zant and current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant.

Is a Filipino TV News reporter in the Philippines. He was born on March 6, 1974 in Cavite City. A so

Is a Filipino TV News reporter in the Philippines. He was born on March 6, 1974 in Cavite City. A son of a retired Police Officer and a businesswoman, he is the eldest among three brothers.Cayetano started with Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation as a writer in 1997.He currently covers the police beat or crime stories which happens during night time. His reports are usually aired at the network's news program IBC Express Balita.

Is a Brazilian composer and music professor.In 1977, Miranda won first prize in the chamber music ca

Is a Brazilian composer and music professor.In 1977, Miranda won first prize in the chamber music category at the Concurso Nacional de Composição para a II Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea da Sala Cecília Meireles. After this, he became a freelance composer. The following year, he represented Brazil at the Tribune International de Componistes de UNESCO in Paris, France. In 1981 he was awarded a gold medal by the governor of Rio de Janeiro state. He was in the program at the World Music Days in Aarhus, Denmark in 1983, at the Tenth Musik-Bienale in Berlin, Germany, and at the World Music Days in Budapest, Hungary in 1986.

Is an Israeli writer and poet.The topics of his academic and artistic writing include science fictio

Is an Israeli writer and poet.The topics of his academic and artistic writing include science fiction, sexual identity, philosophy of science, history of science and more. After his marriage in 2003, he had added the surname "Kaydar".

Is an Israeli fiction writer.Matalon studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and wo

Is an Israeli fiction writer.Matalon studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and worked as a journalist for Haaretz newspaper, where she covered Gaza and the West Bank in 1987-1993 [1]. She is a resident of Tel Aviv and teaches literature at Haifa University.

He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and drawing at the Avni Academy o

He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and drawing at the Avni Academy of Art. He has worked with street gangs, and currently teaches literature and leads creative writing workshops. He has published 9 volumes of poetry (The la

An Indian poet, painter and sculptor, as well as a columnist for the Indian Express.Mehra is a self-

An Indian poet, painter and sculptor, as well as a columnist for the Indian Express.Mehra is a self-taught artist with a social conscience, who has had 11 solo shows of her paintings, reliefs and sculptures. Her artworks are found in private and permanent collections including the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, Arte Antica Gallery, Canada, and individual collections in Switzerland, the U.S.A., Denmark, Austria, the U.K., Spain, the U.A.E. and Japan.

Is an Iranian nationalist writer and journalist, cofounder of the Marze Por Gohar Party who escaped

Is an Iranian nationalist writer and journalist, cofounder of the Marze Por Gohar Party who escaped from Iran for exile in America in 2000 after being arrested for membership in Marze Por Gohar.

Is a Panamanian-born composer

Is a Panamanian-born composer

Was a leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist. He is one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He

Was a leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist. He is one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He wrote emotionally strong, sometimes sarcastic, and image-loaded works dealing with life, death, love, and politics.

Was a Chilean writer, literary critic and scholar. Scarpa served as professor of literature at the U

Was a Chilean writer, literary critic and scholar. Scarpa served as professor of literature at the University of Chile and was a prominent member of the Chilean Academy of Language. In 1943 he founded the Teatro de Ensayo of the Catholic University of Chile. He was director of the National Library of Chile (1967-1971 and 1973-1977).

Was an Australian novelist in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her large bibliography covered mult

Was an Australian novelist in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her large bibliography covered multiple genres, and books for children as well as adults. She has been described as the first Australian novelist to achieve a significant international reputation.[1]Her father was born in England and went to Sydney in May 1839. He afterwards took up grazing country in Queensland and became a member of the then colony's legislative council. He was postmaster-general in the second Robert Herbert ministry in 1866, in the Robert Ramsay Mackenzie ministry, 1867-8, and the Arthur Hunter Palmer ministry, 1870-4, and was elected chairman of committees in the council in July 1889. After Matilda's death in 1868, he married Nora C. Barton.

A Finnish writer and artist. She has studied antropology at the Helsinki and Copenhagen and social s

A Finnish writer and artist. She has studied antropology at the Helsinki and Copenhagen and social sciences at the University of Moscow. Liksom avoids publicity, and has seldom allowed herself to be photographed.

She was a composer and conductor, and a nun of the Order of the Virgin Mary. She studied composition

She was a composer and conductor, and a nun of the Order of the Virgin Mary. She studied composition at the Philippine Women's University, and in 1977 she moved to the United States, where she studied at Eastman School of Music and The Catholic University of America. She taught composition and music theory at Kansas University and St Pius Seminary in Kentucky. Before this she travelled extensively in order to fund-raise, and to attend international music conferences. Abejo has received a number of honours, including the Republic Culture Heritage Award (1967), Philippines' Independence Day Award (1973), and being elected president of the Philippine Foundation of Performing Arts in America in 1980.[1]

Is a British author of romance novels and mainstream women's fiction. Early in her career she was al

Is a British author of romance novels and mainstream women's fiction. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. Pilcher retired from writing in 2000.