Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Winter and Majta Laja (Leah) Winter, (maiden name Kohn). She is perhaps best known for her authorshi

Winter and Majta Laja (Leah) Winter, (maiden name Kohn). She is perhaps best known for her authorship of Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood during and after World War II which explores not only her survival of the Holocaust as a 'hidden child' but also the psychological toll of keeping her identity hidden, even to herself, in post World War II Poland.She studied theater at the Leon Schiller Advanced State School for Theatre in Lódz before its division into separate theater and film schools. She has directed productions of ANTIGONE, ONDINE, and PEER GYNT.

Was a Kazakh poet, writer and a leader of Kazakh nationalist Alash Orda government. He also is known

Was a Kazakh poet, writer and a leader of Kazakh nationalist Alash Orda government. He also is known to have used the pen names Madiyar and Arghyn.[1]. A common English transliteration of his name (through the Russian) is Mir Yakub Dulatov.

Was a Croatian historian, writer, publicist and polymath. He contributed to disparate areas ranging

Was a Croatian historian, writer, publicist and polymath. He contributed to disparate areas ranging from politics to history of religions and literary translation. His polemical works helped preserve the national identity of Croats under Yugoslavia.

Was a Czech poet and immunologist.Miroslav Holub's work was heavily influenced by his experiences as

Was a Czech poet and immunologist.Miroslav Holub's work was heavily influenced by his experiences as an Immunologist, writing many poems utilising his scientific knowledge to poetic effect. His work is almost always unrhymed, so lends itself easily to translation. It has been translated into more than 30 languages and is especially popular in the English-speaking world.

Was popular Czech nonfiction writer.His father was executed during Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia

Was popular Czech nonfiction writer.His father was executed during Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Ivanov studied history and Czech language at the Charles University in Prague. He then worked at the university for seven years. In 1960 he started work as a journalist and then began to publish books. He concentrated on the medieval and modern history of Czech people and published 37 works (1.5 million copies printed). He was also known outside Czechoslovakia.

Was a leading Croatian writer and a figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom (19

Was a leading Croatian writer and a figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom (1918-1941) and the Republic (1945 until his death in 1981). He has often been proclaimed as the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century.

Was a Polish writer, prosaist, diplomatist and screenwriter. He is father of film director, Andrzej

Was a Polish writer, prosaist, diplomatist and screenwriter. He is father of film director, Andrzej Zulawski.Miroslaw Zulawski was born in Nisko. He graduated law and diplomatic studies at Lviv University. His career as a poet began in Sygnaly magazine in 1934. During the World War II he was a soldier of Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej, and then Armia Krajowa. In AK Zulawski operated in cultural underground and also wrote newsletters. During the years of 1944 and 1945 he was a war correspondent. After that he became as an editor-in-chief's assistant of Rzeczpospolita newspaper.

Was a celebrated Azerbaijani author, playwright, philosopher, and founder of modern literary critici

Was a celebrated Azerbaijani author, playwright, philosopher, and founder of modern literary criticism, "who acquired fame primarily as the writer of European-inspired plays in the Azeri language". Akhundov singlehandedly opened a new stage of development of Azerbaijani literature and is also considered one of the founders of modern Iranian literature. He was also one of the forerunners of modern Iranian nationalism.

Is an eminent Azerbaijani author, political analyst, legendary anchorman, radio journalist, publishe

Is an eminent Azerbaijani author, political analyst, legendary anchorman, radio journalist, publisher, translator. Known also as Mirza Michaeli. By the request of the Stockholm Institute for Bible Translation Mirza Khazar translated the Bible - The New Testament and Old Testament into Azerbaijani language from 1975 to 1984.

Was a Russian-born composer and a long-term resident in Britain. Spoliansky worked in a coffeehouse

Was a Russian-born composer and a long-term resident in Britain. Spoliansky worked in a coffeehouse as a pianist in order to continue his musical education at the Stern'sches Konservatorium. Spoliansky's first compositions were played by the UFA-Filmtheaterorchester in Friedrichstraße. In addition he worked as a composer and pianist in a Russian émigré cabaret. There Victor Hollaender and Werner Richard Heymann heard him and invited him to write and play for the literary cabaret "Schall und Rauch" in the basement of the Große Schauspielhaus, which Max Reinhardt had founded in 1919. Spoliansky set the texts of Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Joachim Ringelnatz, and accompanied stars such as Gussy Holl, Paul O’Montis, Rosa Valetti and Trude Hesterberg. In 1920 under the pseudonym „Arno Billing“ he composed the melody for the first homosexual anthem called Das lila Lied, which he dedicated to Magnus Hirschfeld.

Is a French film music composer. He is also a nude model.

Is a French film music composer. He is also a nude model.

Was a Japanese poet and songwriter. Born Kaneko Teru in Senzaki-mura, now part of Nagato, Yamaguchi

Was a Japanese poet and songwriter. Born Kaneko Teru in Senzaki-mura, now part of Nagato, Yamaguchi prefecture, Senzaki was a fishing village, relying particularly on catches of Japanese sardine. Scenes of fishing and the sea often make appearances in her poems. Her carrer as a writer of poerty for children began in earnest at the age of twenty, shortly after she became the manager and sole employee of a small bookstore in Shinmonoseki,a town at the southern tip of Honshu. Here she discovered a clutch of magazines which were riding the crest of a boom in children's literature and which solicited stories and verse from their readers. Kaneko sent in a number of poems

Was a Japanese poet.Mitsuharu Kaneko was born in Aichi Prefecture, but attended the private Catholic

Was a Japanese poet.Mitsuharu Kaneko was born in Aichi Prefecture, but attended the private Catholic school Gyosei Gakuen in Tokyo. He published his first poetry collection Akatsuchi no Ie (Red Clay House) in 1919. He was known as an anti-establishment figure, and during the Second World War he deliberately made his son ill, so he wouldn't be drafted. As well as publishing several volumes of poetry, he was also known for his autobiographical works.

A mangaka, a fiction novel author, a writer of computer manuals, and a racing writer. Sugaya wrote a

A mangaka, a fiction novel author, a writer of computer manuals, and a racing writer. Sugaya wrote and illustrated Game Center Arashi, a manga. He Also Drew A Manga tied to the Japanese Spiderman Show From The 70's.

Was a Japanese author and naval officer. He was born in Tokyo. He was the senior surviving officer o

Was a Japanese author and naval officer. He was born in Tokyo. He was the senior surviving officer on the battleship Yamato when it was sunk on 7 April 1945 during Operation Ten-Go, an attempt to support the defenders of Okinawa.His best known work is Senkan Yamato-no Saigo (???????, The Last Days of Battleship Yamato), based on his personal experiences as a junior officer on Yamato's final voyage. It was made into a movie Senkan Yamato ("Battleship Yamato" Shin-Toho. Dir.: Yutaka Abe) in 1953. Another movie Otoko-tachi no Yamato was released in 2005.

A Japanese author.

A Japanese author.

Was a Japanese author and a journalist, born in Kagawa Prefecture.His given name was Miyatake Kamesh

Was a Japanese author and a journalist, born in Kagawa Prefecture.His given name was Miyatake Kameshiro (?? ???).

Literary critic, author and editor, where he received his B. Sc. in radiology from the Medical Scho

Literary critic, author and editor, where he received his B. Sc. in radiology from the Medical School in Rijeka and also a B. A. in the Croatian language and literature from the Faculty of Philosophy.Many of his essays and studies concerning the topics from the contemporary Croatian literature, especially studies of writer Janko Polic Kamov (Rijeka 1886 – Barcelona 1910), his life and work, have appeared in various American and Croatian periodicals.

Mo Yan's works are predominantly social commentary, and he is strongly influenced by the political c

Mo Yan's works are predominantly social commentary, and he is strongly influenced by the political critique of Lu Xun and the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Using dazzling, complex, and often graphically violent images, Mo Yan draws readers into the disturbing yet beautiful, kaleidoscopic universes of his stories. Like American author Stephen King, Mo Yan sets many of his stories near his hometown: Northeast Gaomi Township in Shandong province.

One of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He strove to achi

One of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.

Is an Iranian writer and literary figure.Mohammad Ali Sepanlou received his diploma from Dar ul-Funu

Is an Iranian writer and literary figure.Mohammad Ali Sepanlou received his diploma from Dar ul-Funun high school. He graduated from Tehran University’s Faculty of Law in 1963.

Is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music (a member of that nation's third generation

Is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music (a member of that nation's third generation of classical composers) and educator.

Is a Moroccan writer and specialist in Berber language and literature.Chafik is also considered as o

Is a Moroccan writer and specialist in Berber language and literature.Chafik is also considered as one of the major figures in the Moroccan Amazigh Movement. He taught at university, participated in many conferences about the Amazigh case and wrote many books. He is also known as the author and first signer of the 2000 Amazigh Manifesto in which he and thousands of Amazigh activists demanded, from the Moroccan government, the official recognition of the Amazigh language as a national and official language of the kingdom.

Was a Moroccan author who is best known for his autobiography For Bread Alone (al-Khubz al-Hafi), wh

Was a Moroccan author who is best known for his autobiography For Bread Alone (al-Khubz al-Hafi), which was described by the American playwright Tennessee Williams as 'A true document of human desperation, shattering in its impact.'

Fawzi left a mark in the history of music in Egypt and the Arab world, not only for being a musical

Fawzi left a mark in the history of music in Egypt and the Arab world, not only for being a musical genius composer and singer, but also to the belief that his music was so advance for the musical era.