Obituary photos for Andrew Greeley, American novelist and Catholic critic, from Lebrecht Music & Arts
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Jun
03
Tag Archives: novelist
Nov
12
Obituary photos of American author Ellen Douglas
Jun
01
June Anniversaries for great writers and literary figures
Jean-Jaques Rousseau - 28 June
300th anniversary of the birth of influential Swiss-French philosopher, whose political philosophy inspired the French Revolution.
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JM Barrie – 19 June
75th anniversary of the death of Scottish dramatist and novelist who created ‘Peter Pan’. This was the result of his meeting the Llewelyn Davies family whose five sons inspired him in writing about a baby boy who had magical adventures in Kensington Gardens.
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May
14
May Literary Anniversaries at Lebrecht Authors
Robert Browning, English poet and playwright, 200th birth anniversary on 7 May. The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is one of his most famous poems.
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Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator, 200 birth annviersary on 12 May. He is well known for his none sense poems and limericks, in particular The Owl and the Pussycat
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Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian playwright and novelist, 150th birth anniversary on 15 May. He was a major literary figure during 1920s Vienna, his novella Dream Story was adapted for Stanley Kubrick’s film Eyes Wide Shut.
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Feb
09
10 February 2012: Alexander Pushkin’s 175th death anniversary
Alexander (Aleksandr) Sergeyevich Pushkin.
Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist, is renowned for his huge contribution to Russian literature and language. Many of his works formed the basis of operas such as The Queen of Spades and Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky; Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky; Ruslan and Ludmila by Glinka and the Tale of Tsar Sultan and the Tale of the Golden Cockerel by Rimsky-Korsakov. In Russia a play has been written based on Pushkin’s letters. Famous stories include The Tale of the Dead Princess and Seven Knights.
Painting by Nikolai Pavlovich Ulyanov
Jan
03
Josef Skvorecky, outstanding Czech novelist, dies 3rd January 2012
Josef Skvorecky, a dazzling novelist who played a key role in the 1968 Prague Spring, fled to Canada after the Russian invasion. From exile, he published Havel, Vaculik and others in editions that were smuggled back into Czechoslovakia.
(Photograph by Horst Tappe taken in 1968)
His best well known novel was named after one of Stalin’s catchphrases, ‘The Engineer of Human Souls’. Skvorecky died today in Toronto, Canada.