Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter G

Is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as

Is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson.

Is an American poet and musician known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken

Is an American poet and musician known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word performer.

Called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays.

Called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus"[3] and often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama."[1]

Was an Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor who was the eponym of the Gilardo Gilardi Conserva

Was an Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor who was the eponym of the Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory of Music in La Plata, Buenos Aires.He was born in San Fernando, Argentina and first learnt music from his father before studying with the composer Arturo Berutti in Buenos Aires. He began composing as a teenager and he premiered his first opera, Ilse, in the Colón theatre, aged 23. He co-founded the group Renovación (Renovation) in 1929, but left three years later, in 1932.

Is a French composer and conductor. In 1954 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he was taugh

Is a French composer and conductor. In 1954 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he was taught and influenced by Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud and studied piano with Yvonne Loriod. His first compositions (Œil de fumée) date from 1955. In 1957 he met Pierre Boulez, under whose direction he composed his Piano Sonata. A year later Boulez commissioned from him a work called Mouvements which was performed in Darmstadt by the Orchestre du Domaine Musical, an ensemble whose goal was to promote new music. From 1958 to 1961 he attended the courses given by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Darmstadt. In 1962 Jean-Louis Barrault named him adjunct music director of the Odéon Theater in Paris

Is a classically trained Egyptian novelist and guitarist.. At age 19, he went to France and enrolled

Is a classically trained Egyptian novelist and guitarist.. At age 19, he went to France and enrolled in the Paris national music conservatory and was trained as a guitar player. He later gave music classes teaching guitar playing.

Is a Brazilian composer.Mendes attended the Santos Conservatory from 1941 to 1949, and studied compo

Is a Brazilian composer.Mendes attended the Santos Conservatory from 1941 to 1949, and studied composition under Cláudio Santoro in 1954 and under George Olivier Toni from 1958-1960. In the 1960s he studied in Darmstadt under Pierre Boulez, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.Mendes's compositions include cantatas, motets, orchestral music, incidental music, solo and chamber pieces, and some avant-garde works. Most of them are published by Alain Van Kerckhoven Editeur.

Is a Brazilian writer. He was born in Bela Vista de Goiás, state of Goiás, in 1931.

Is a Brazilian writer. He was born in Bela Vista de Goiás, state of Goiás, in 1931.

Was a Cuban writer and poet. in her youth she quit her nursing career, and became an ardent anarchis

Was a Cuban writer and poet. in her youth she quit her nursing career, and became an ardent anarchist whom rebelled against communism, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Her anti-government writings and acts of vandalism against the government led to her conviction in 1978, after which she was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. In 1980, the Mariel Boatlift departed from Cuba's Mariel Harbor for the United States. Guillén was among the exiles released from Cuba's El Paraíso prison. Upon reaching Florida she gave a false name and date of birth, out of uncertainty over whether her conviction in Cuba would possibly be linked in the United States. Her spirited writings and poetry remain banned in Cuba. [edit

Is a French political theorist associated with left communism. In collaboration with other left comm

Is a French political theorist associated with left communism. In collaboration with other left communists such as François Martin and Karl Nesic, Dauvé has attempted to fuse, critique, and develop different left communist currents, most notably the Italian movement associated with Amadeo Bordiga (and its heretical journal Invariance), German-Dutch council communism

Was a Franco-Flemish composer, one of the earliest members of the Burgundian School, and one of the

Was a Franco-Flemish composer, one of the earliest members of the Burgundian School, and one of the three most famous composers of the early 15th century. While often ranked behind his contemporaries Guillaume Dufay and John Dunstaple, at least by contemporary scholars, his influence was arguably greater than either, since his works were cited, borrowed and used as source material more often than those by any other composer of the time.

Was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A member of the Burgundian school, he was known ma

Was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A member of the Burgundian school, he was known mainly for his secular songs which were in a lyrical and graceful style.Between 1454 and 1459 no record of his activities survives in the Low Countries; based on his composition of an Italian ballata on a poem by a contemporary Florentine, it has been suggested that he spent some time in Italy, as did so many other Franco-Flemish composers of his and succeeding generations. By 1459 he was back at St. Donatian in Bruges.[1]

Was a French Baroque composer and organist. He is credited with bringing the style of French organ m

Was a French Baroque composer and organist. He is credited with bringing the style of French organ music then current in Paris to Chartres.[1]

Is a French songwriter and singer who reached the height of his career during the 1970s.Marchal also

Is a French songwriter and singer who reached the height of his career during the 1970s.Marchal also sang "Je suis né sous une étoile filante" (a Lerner and Loewe song translated to French by Mr. Vidalin) and "Buddy River" (a Lee Hazlewood song translated by Vline Buggy and Yves Dessca)

Was a French composer and singer of the Renaissance. He was active in central France, mainly Chartre

Was a French composer and singer of the Renaissance. He was active in central France, mainly Chartres, and was one of the composers listed by Eloy d'Amerval in his long 1508 poem Le livre de la deablerie as one of the great composers of the age, resident in Paradise – even though he was still alive. While he probably wrote a substantial number of works, only four secular compositions survive.

Is a left-wing French writer and journalist. He attended the Collège Stanislas de Paris and then st

Is a left-wing French writer and journalist. He attended the Collège Stanislas de Paris and then studied at the Institut d'études politiques, eventually becoming a lawyer, a profession he worked in for five years. After the success of his essay 'Les Parachutistes', inspired by his military service in Algeria, he became a journalist and wrote articles about Nehru's India, the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the problems of African Americans in the United States. He then investigated less known aspects of the Second World War.

Was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, associated with the Habsburg court of Philip I of

Was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, associated with the Habsburg court of Philip I of Castile. He was a close associate of composer Pierre de La Rue.[1][2]While Reingot's music may once have been more abundant, only two pieces survive attributed to him: a four-voice motet setting of the Marian antiphon Salve regina, and a four-voice chanson, Fors seulement, based on the tune by Johannes Ockeghem. Reingot's version, found in Petrucci's Canti C, uses Ockeghem superius transposed down an octave in the tenor voice and has three florid, quick-moving contrapuntal voices around it.

Is a Québécois poet, publisher and singer-songwriter, and well-known Quebec nationalist and sovere

Is a Québécois poet, publisher and singer-songwriter, and well-known Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist.A poet deeply rooted in his native Quebec, Vigneault has become an icon at home and Quebec ambassador abroad. He was one of the principal figures of

Her novels were at first predominantly of the crime and thriller genres, including a series featurin

Her novels were at first predominantly of the crime and thriller genres, including a series featuring the detective Kate Baeier but she has since written more literary fiction. Her 2000 work, Red Dust, a courtroom drama that explores the meanings and effects of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was made into a film released in 2004 directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hilary Swank, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jamie Bartlett. Her 2004 work Ice Road was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. The novel incorporates real events (the death of Sergey Kirov) with a fictionalised rendering of life during the Siege of Leningrad.

Is a French composer. Keller studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Tony Aubin

Is a French composer. Keller studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen. In 1951 she won the Second Prix de Rome with her cantata Et l’Homme vit se rouvrir les portes. She taught aural training at the Conservatoire and analysis and counterpoint at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.

Is an author, novelist and renowned Nicaraguan poet. She was designated among the 100 most important

Is an author, novelist and renowned Nicaraguan poet. She was designated among the 100 most important poets during the 20th century

Was a Georgian public figure, philanthropist, publisher and businessman. Kartvelishvili owned a fish

Was a Georgian public figure, philanthropist, publisher and businessman. Kartvelishvili owned a fishing and timber manufacturing enterprises in Georgia's Shida Kartli province and ran a sizable trading business.

Was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and literary scholar. Leonidze was born in the village of Patardz

Was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and literary scholar. Leonidze was born in the village of Patardzeuli in the eastern Georgian province of Kakheti. He graduated from the Tbilisi Theological Seminary in 1918 and continued his studies at the Tbilisi State

Was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual.In 1935 he enrolled

Was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual.In 1935 he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bologna. Commuting to lectures by train (third class) from Ferrara, he studied under the art historian Roberto Longhi. His ideal of the “free intellectual” was the Liberal historian and philosopher Benedetto Croce. Despite the anti-semitic race laws which were introduced from 1938, he was able to graduate in 1939, writing a thesis on the nineteenth-century writer, journalist, radical and lexicographer Niccolò Tommaseo. As a Jew in 1939, however, work opportunities were now limited and he became a schoolteacher in the Jewish School of Ferrara in via Vignatagliata.

Is a composer and pianist/harpsichordist who lives in Lugano, a town located in Ticino, an Italian-s

Is a composer and pianist/harpsichordist who lives in Lugano, a town located in Ticino, an Italian-speaking canton of southern Switzerland.Through masterclasses with Czech-American pianist Rudolf Firkusny, Koukl was first introduced to the piano music of Bohuslav Martinu. Koukl has recorded a 7-CD set of the complete solo piano music of Martinu, released between November 2006 and August 2009, and a 2-CD set of Martinu's complete piano and orchestra, to be releaased in 2010, for Naxos Records.[1] A new series of recordings of the complete solo piano music of Alexander Tcherepnin has been initiated.