Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter Y

Was a Ukrainian poet, priest, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Yaroslav Lesiv was born in

Was a Ukrainian poet, priest, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Yaroslav Lesiv was born in the village of Luzhkiv, (Ukrainian ??????), in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Western Ukraine. In 1965, he joined the Ukrainian National Front, an underground organization working for Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union. On March 29, 1965, his membership in this organization was discovered, and Lesiv was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

Was a Tatar composer, the creator of the first Tatar ballet Süräle. His works include chamber musi

Was a Tatar composer, the creator of the first Tatar ballet Süräle. His works include chamber music, romances, song and arrangement of folk music. He participated in World War II and was killed in action in 1943.

Was a Turkish multi-talented outdoor sportsman, photographer and editor. He was one of the most famo

Was a Turkish multi-talented outdoor sportsman, photographer and editor. He was one of the most famous Turkish mountaineers known for climbing high mountains.

Was a Hindi author renowned for ???? ?? Jhutha Sach (The False Truth, 1958–1960), which is regarde

Was a Hindi author renowned for ???? ?? Jhutha Sach (The False Truth, 1958–1960), which is regarded as one of the best Hindi novels ever written. He won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Meri Teri Uski Baat in 1976 [1].Yashpal, a revolutionary fighting for India's freedom, was twenty-eight years old when he was caught, tried and sentenced to fourteen years to life at hard labour. There was little expectation at the time that he would emerge as one of India's outstanding writers of fiction.

Is a Pakistani lawyer and writer who advocates what he calls a secular Pakistani identity and is an

Is a Pakistani lawyer and writer who advocates what he calls a secular Pakistani identity and is an activist for a constitutional order in the country. He has also extensively researched and archived the life of Mahomed Ali Jinnah the founding father of Pakistan. He has been published in publications like Dawn Newspaper, Daily Times Pakistan, The News and Daily Star and is a regular contributor to Chowk.com and Naseeb.com. During the Pakistan Chief Justice constitutional crisis, he came out heavily in the favour of the Chief Justice in his interview on the BBC [1]. In a radio interview on BBC, he declined to join the call for mass uprising as called forth by Benazir Bhutto in the aftermath of the emergency imposition,

Tanaka was born in Musashino City in Tokyo, and moved to Nagano at age 8 when his father became a pr

Tanaka was born in Musashino City in Tokyo, and moved to Nagano at age 8 when his father became a professor at Shinshu University. He initially failed the university entrance exams in 1975 and spent the next year studying in Tokyo to retake them. In 1976 he entered the Faculty of Law at Hitotsubashi University. He received the Bungei Prize in 1980 for his first novel, Nantonaku, Crystal Feeling while still a student. He graduated in the same year and briefly worked for the Mobil Oil Corporation for three months before leaving to continue his career as a writer. Tanaka married after graduating university but divorced 11 months later.

Was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. He w

Was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. He was originally from Asahikawa, Hokkaido.Inoue is famous for his serious historical fiction of ancient Japan and the Asian continent, including Wind and Waves, Tun-huang, and Confucius, but his work also included semi-autobiographical novels and short fiction of great humor, pathos, and wisdom like Shirobamba and Asunaro Monogatari, which depicted the setting of the author's own life--Japan of the early to mid twentieth century--in revealing perspective.

A Japanese novelist, Manga author and scenario writer. He is one of the four brothers of famous mang

A Japanese novelist, Manga author and scenario writer. He is one of the four brothers of famous mangaka Go Nagai.In 1969 he was a candidate for the Ranpo Edogawa prize for his novel Baptism of Blood (????????), being Seiichi Morimura the winner of that year[1], but he abandoned his activities as a writer, for a time, with the establishment of Dynamic Production. He would re-debut as a writer in 1981 with Shin Devilman (?·?????)(not to be confused with the manga of similar name where he also collaborated).

Was a Tatar composer and pianist. People's Artist of the USSR (1986). Major works: orchestra with pi

Was a Tatar composer and pianist. People's Artist of the USSR (1986). Major works: orchestra with piano concerto (1950-1952), ballet Fidai (1987), fortepiano and viola concertos, more than 300 songs and romances. Yaxin is also an author of Hymn of the Republic of Tatarstan. Röstäm Yaxin was a laureate of the Gabdulla Tuqay Tatar ASSR State Prize in 1959.

Was a prominent author, educator and publisher. He was one of the founders of the Association for Li

Was a prominent author, educator and publisher. He was one of the founders of the Association for Literary Studies (?????), the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement in China. Throughout his life, he was dedicated to publishing and language education. His strongest advocation was 'Literature is for Life' (?????).

Is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. He is originally Cantonese but spent his earl

Is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. He is originally Cantonese but spent his early years in Shanghai.[citation needed] He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 1978 to 1983 and at the Eastman School of Music beginning in 1987.[1] His teachers include Alexander Goehr.In the summer of 2006, Ye took part in the inaugural "Composer Alive!" transpacific correspondence project with Accessible Contemporary Music in Chicago, Illinois. This project consisted of Ye composing a piece, Datura, and sending its fragments as they were completed to Chicago, electronically. They were subsequently read by ACM's performance ensemble and posted to the Internet for Ye's approval. The project culminated with Ye traveling to the United States for the completed work's premiere performance.

Is one of the pioneers of the Twentieth Century modern literary movement in Egypt. He has experiment

Is one of the pioneers of the Twentieth Century modern literary movement in Egypt. He has experimented with the various literary norms: the short story, the novel, literary criticism, essays, meditations, and literary translation.

Was a Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor best known for his 1955 novel The House of Dolls, which h

Was a Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor best known for his 1955 novel The House of Dolls, which he claimed was inspired by his time as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp.De-Nur presented his writings as an attempt to chronicle his time at Auschwitz. He wrote using the name Ka-Tzetnik 135633 (which he denied was a pseudonym or pen name but was what his time in Auschwitz had made him) for some time before his civic identity was revealed at the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann at court session 68 of the trial on 7 June 1961.[2] After an opening statement in which De-Nur described Auschwitz as the "planet of the ashes", but before he was able to answer the general questions about Auschwitz that the prosecuting Attorney-General had prepared for him, De-Nur fainted and was subsequently unable to resume his testimony.

Is an Israeli novelist.After the Holidays (1964) is about the disintegration of a family in a small

Is an Israeli novelist.After the Holidays (1964) is about the disintegration of a family in a small farming community in Palestine during the British Mandate.[4] The Great Woman of the Dreams (1973) depicts the lives of the tenants of a rundown apartment house in Tel Aviv.[5] Musical Moments (1980) is a collection of four stories dealing with themes of the rites of manhood and the disruption of innocence.[

Is an Israeli playwright, writer and director at theatres in Israel and abroad. Yehoshua Sobol is ma

Is an Israeli playwright, writer and director at theatres in Israel and abroad. Yehoshua Sobol is married to Edna, set and costume designer. They have a daughter, Neta, and a son, Yahli.

Was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many to be the greatest modern Israeli poet, and was o

Was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many to be the greatest modern Israeli poet, and was one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew.

Known as Lena Katina is one half of the Russian music duo t.A.T.u.; the other being Yulia Volkova. B

Known as Lena Katina is one half of the Russian music duo t.A.T.u.; the other being Yulia Volkova. Born in Moscow, Katina is the eldest of three children, and the only daughter of Sergey Katin, a renowned Russian pop music author, and Inessa Katina.

Was a Georgian poet. He wrote in Georgian, Armenian and Azeri languages. His poetry mainly was distr

Was a Georgian poet. He wrote in Georgian, Armenian and Azeri languages. His poetry mainly was distributed orally, by songs, which he created and performed himself. Main motives of his poetry were the lives of late 19th and early 20th century Old Tbilisi

Was a Ukrainian romantic writer and poet. He wrote in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages. His

Was a Ukrainian romantic writer and poet. He wrote in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages. His works first started being published in 1831. In 1834 he published "Little Russian Fables" in Moscow which, because of its vivid and pure language, wit, lac

Is a Russian poet. He also directed several films. Reportedly, before the appearance of Aleksandr So

Is a Russian poet. He also directed several films. Reportedly, before the appearance of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov and the dissident movement in Russia, Yevtushenko, through his poetry, was the first voice to speak out against Stalinism.

Was a Russian author, most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story of dystopian future which influence

Was a Russian author, most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story of dystopian future which influenced George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ayn Rand's Anthem, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ursula Le Guin’s "The Dispossessed" and, indirectly, Kurt Vonne

Was an extremely popular Soviet author of the 1920s and 1930s, who worked in collaboration with Ilya

Was an extremely popular Soviet author of the 1920s and 1930s, who worked in collaboration with Ilya Ilf. He is the brother of Valentin Kataev. See Ilf and Petrov for more info.

Is one of the most famous contemporary Ukrainian composers of stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral

Is one of the most famous contemporary Ukrainian composers of stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral works. He is of world renown, having most of his works performed around the globe. Yevhen was born in Svaliava, Ukraine (in the Transcarpathians). In 1962

Was a Greek composer and teacher of the Modern Era. He studied piano with Marika Laspopoulou and com

Was a Greek composer and teacher of the Modern Era. He studied piano with Marika Laspopoulou and composition with Alekos Kontis at the Hellenic Conservatory in Athens (1922–34), as well as the piano and orchestration with Emilios Riadis in Thessaloniki (1928–9). In 1949, he visited the major European music centres on a UNESCOgrant and he became familiar with new compositional developments. In particular, in Paris he attended Arthur Honegger's class. Between 1951 and 1961 he taught music at an Athens high-School and from 1953 he was professor of counterpoint and composition at the Hellenic Conservatory. He was the first president of both the Greek section of the ISCM (1964–75) and the Hellenic Association for Contemporary Music (1965–75).

Is a Greek poet. He read Law and Philology at the University of Athens. He has worked as a high scho

Is a Greek poet. He read Law and Philology at the University of Athens. He has worked as a high school professor since 1980. He co-founded the literary periodical T? ???t?? (The Tree); since 1986 he has published the periodical ??a??d??? (Vagrant).