Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Is a French writer from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Is a French writer from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Was a priest and a French writer. His father had died early. Therefore Michel began to work at the a

Was a priest and a French writer. His father had died early. Therefore Michel began to work at the age of 14. He sought meaning of life. In 1947 he became a priest. His work as a chaplain and a writer was focused on young people. After Advanced Studies at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, as a researcher and practitioner, he developed a method of inquiry which will later be known as an urban classic. He wrote a thesis on a sociology of the old Rouen City. Afterwards he returned to Le Havre as vicar, later becoming a parish priest.

Is a German concert guitarist who extends his instrument via live electronics and computer. He is en

Is a German concert guitarist who extends his instrument via live electronics and computer. He is engaged in aleatoric composition, variable forms and structures as well as notation. Influences are (amongst others): John Cage, Morton Feldman, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Violeta Dinescu, Derek Bailey, but also old lute music. He was the first musician transforming the concert guitar by means of computer patches and live processing.

Was a prolific French Baroque composer and organist who was one of the most important composers of s

Was a prolific French Baroque composer and organist who was one of the most important composers of so-called grand motets, of which he wrote almost 80. He also wrote orchestral suites known as "Simphonies pour les Soupers du Roy", or in an alternative spelling of the time, simply "Symphonies". Delalande also composed ballets as well.

Is a novelist and playwright.Tremblay grew up in the Plateau Mont-Royal, a French-speaking neighbour

Is a novelist and playwright.Tremblay grew up in the Plateau Mont-Royal, a French-speaking neighbourhood of Montreal, at the time of his birth a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect, something that would heavily influence his wor

Was a Muslim scholar and master of the Shadhuliyya tariqah in Paris under the name of Shaykh Mustafa

Was a Muslim scholar and master of the Shadhuliyya tariqah in Paris under the name of Shaykh Mustafa 'Abd al-'Aziz. As well, he was a Romanian diplomat and a prolific translator who specialized in translating and interpreting the works of the Sufi theoretician Ibn Arabi.

Was a French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical as well as anarchist

Was a French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical as well as anarchist activist. Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on March 27, 1892. A month later he was jailed for 6 months and fined for praising Pini and Ravachol. Afterwards he wrote for Sébastien Faure's journal,

Was a French oboist, violinist, viol player, bandmaster, and composer. He composed over 200 popular

Was a French oboist, violinist, viol player, bandmaster, and composer. He composed over 200 popular marches, as well as a number of other pieces for various instruments, particularly duets and quartets.

Is a Jamaican-American author whose notable works include No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng, and Free En

Is a Jamaican-American author whose notable works include No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng, and Free Enterprise.

An Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka but moved to Australia when she was 14.[1]She was e

An Australian novelist who was born in Sri Lanka but moved to Australia when she was 14.[1]She was educated in Melbourne and Paris, and published her first novel, The Rose Grower in 1999. Her second novel, published in 2003, The Hamilton Case was winner of the Tasmania Pacific Prize, the Encore Award (UK) and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Southeast Asia and Pacific). The Lost Dog was published in 2007. It was one of 13 books on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. From 1989 to 1992 she was a founding editor of the Australian Women's Book Review.

A Japanese Roman-Catholic author and philanthropist. She is the founder of the Michiko Inukai Founda

A Japanese Roman-Catholic author and philanthropist. She is the founder of the Michiko Inukai Foundation, which provides financial aid for refugees seeking education.Michiko Inukai was born in Yotsuya, Tokyo, the eldest daughter of a politician Takeru Inukai and his wife Nakako. Her grandfathers were Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai and Baron Shokichi Nagayo. She has a brother Yasuhiko Inukai, a journalist who later became president of Kyodo News, and a half sister Kazu Ando, an essayist. Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, is Michiko's first cousin once removed.

Was a Japanese writer, literary critic and scholar of German literature, active in Showa period Japa

Was a Japanese writer, literary critic and scholar of German literature, active in Showa period Japan.On returning home in 1932, Takeyama taught German language as a professor at First Higher School, and also translated works of German literature into Japanese. Among the works he translated were Goethe's An Anthology, Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra and Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography by Albert Schweitzer.

An Japanese manga artist born on October 11, 1959 in Urawa (now Saitama), Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

An Japanese manga artist born on October 11, 1959 in Urawa (now Saitama), Saitama Prefecture, Japan.[1] She graduated from Saitama Prefectural Dai-Ichi Girls High School. Akaishi then attended Musashino Art University where she graduated with a degree in commercial plastic model design. In 1979, she won first place in the Shogakukan Shinjin Comic Award contest.

An American author, editor and educator who has written more than 40 published works. Her first orig

An American author, editor and educator who has written more than 40 published works. Her first original hardcover novel, "Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa", was named a "New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age". She has also been the ghostwriter for novelizations of television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed and Fearless.

Was a Polish communist politician, historian and journalist. He served as an officer in the Polish P

Was a Polish communist politician, historian and journalist. He served as an officer in the Polish People's Army from 1945 to 1949. He began his political career in 1946 as a member of the Polish Workers' Party, and from 1948 to 1990 he was a member of the communist Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), serving on its Central Committee from 1975 to 1990.He received a doctorate in history from Warsaw's Institute for Social Sciences in 1956. Rakowski served as the second-to-last communist Prime Minister of Poland from September 1988 to August 1989 (Czeslaw Kiszczak then served less than a month as the last communist, before the accession of Tadeusz Mazowiecki), and the last communist First Secretary of Poland from July 1989 to January 1990.

Was a Polish Romantic poet.

Was a Polish Romantic poet.

Was an important Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin. He lived in the Soviet Union and Russia si

Was an important Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin. He lived in the Soviet Union and Russia since 1939 and lost most of his family in the Holocaust.He left a large body of work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string quartets; according to one reviewer he ranked as, "the third great Soviet composer, along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich".

Was a Japanese novelist.Suzuki was born in Hiroshima. He studied English literature at Tokyo Imperia

Was a Japanese novelist.Suzuki was born in Hiroshima. He studied English literature at Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo), and later launched a childrens literature magazine called ??? (Akai Tori / Red Bird) in 1918. 196 issues were published.

A Japanese writer of fiction -- especially short stories -- and poetry. She is also a literary criti

A Japanese writer of fiction -- especially short stories -- and poetry. She is also a literary critic. In 1968 she received the Gendaishi Techo Prize for poetry.[1]

A Japanese singer and writer from Osaka. She was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize for promising new

A Japanese singer and writer from Osaka. She was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize for promising new writers of serious fiction (2007) for her novel Chichi to Ran (???) ("Breasts and Egg"). [1][2] Kawakami has released three albums and three singles as a singer. "Chichi to Ran" is her second novel. It describes the I concept and the relation between the heart and the body through three female characters.[3]

A Puerto Rican poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and retired Rutgers University

A Puerto Rican poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and retired Rutgers University professor of English.The theater has won over 30 "AUDELCO Awards" and was honored with an Obie grant for excellence in theater. Of the screenplays read in the theater, 40 have been turned into films. The Latin Jam Session which is celebrated at the Cafe has been a weekly "Critics Choice" at the New York Press for six consecutive years.

Nobel-Prize–winning Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat. Asturias helped establish Latin Ameri

Nobel-Prize–winning Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat. Asturias helped establish Latin American literature's contribution to mainstream Western culture, and at the same time drew attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.

Was the publisher and editor of Bohemia Magazine, the most popular news-weekly of its day in Cuba an

Was the publisher and editor of Bohemia Magazine, the most popular news-weekly of its day in Cuba and Latin America, known for its political journalism and editorial writing. He was also one of the pioneers of Cuban Scouting.In 1914, the first Scout groups in Cuba were founded, and Carlos Alzugarai, Miguel Ángel Quevedo, Jules Loustalot and others wrote up the statutes and began Scout activities.

Was a Filipino Jesuit priest, academic, author, journalist and editor. He was buried at the Manresa

Was a Filipino Jesuit priest, academic, author, journalist and editor. He was buried at the Manresa Jesuit Cemetery at SEARSOLIN (a research center of Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan).

Is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana, unde

Is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz , the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Ortíz Fernández's studies of Afro-Cuban cultures influenced many of the themes, both literary and scholarly, of Barnet.