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Nicole Burdette
1963 - Present (61 years)
Nicole Maria Burdette is an American playwright and actress. She is also an assistant professor at The New School for Drama. Early life and education Burdette was born in San Francisco, the first of two children of Ellen and Lawrence Burdette. Her uncle is former governor of Alaska, Mike Stepovich whose daughter, Nada, is married to NBA Hall of Fame player John Stockton.
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Janet Charman
1954 - Present (70 years)
Janet Charman is a poet from New Zealand. Background Born in 1954, Charman grew up in the Hutt Valley and Taranaki. Charman initially trained as a nurse and worked in social welfare. After receiving an MA in English from the University of Auckland she worked as a tutor in the university's English department. In 1997 was named as a writer in residence and received a Literary Fellowship. She also received a fellowship from the Hong Kong Baptist University. Charman continues to teach writing classes and is based in Auckland.
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Patty Dann
1953 - Present (71 years)
Patty Dann is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. She studied at the University of Oregon, and later earned an MFA in writing from Columbia University. While working at the A&E network in 1986, she revised Mermaids, a coming-of-age novel she had written as her Master's thesis, which was subsequently published by Ticknor and Fields. It was later made into a feature film of the same name in 1990.
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Kathryn Reiss
1957 - Present (67 years)
Kathryn Reiss is an American author of award-winning children's and young adult fiction. Biography Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, December 4, 1957. She grew up in Ohio, and received B.A. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel.
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Katie Ford
1975 - Present (49 years)
Katie Ford is an American poet, essayist, and professor. Life She was born to Mary and Michael Ford. She has two siblings, Kristin and Brian. She began writing at the age of 19, while earning her B.A. in English from Whitman College. Soon after, she earned her Master’s in Divinity from Harvard. Ford went on to pursue her Master’s in Fine Arts , with a concentration in poetry, from Iowa’s Writers Workshop. Along with her published poetry collections— Deposition, Colosseum, and Storm—her individual poems and essays can be found in many contemporary journals and reviews. Ford is currently a pro...
Go to ProfileMona Lisa Saloy is an American poet and folklorist. She is the Poet Laureate of Louisiana since 2021. Biography Mona Lisa Saloy was born in New Orleans and got her education in the University of Washington, where she graduated in 1979 with a BA in English. She then went to San Francisco State University and left with her MA in creative writing and English in 1982. She then went to Louisiana State University, which she left with a PhD in English and MFA in creative writing in 2005 and 1988. Saloy is the Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University.
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María Emma Mannarelli
1954 - Present (70 years)
María Emma Mannarelli Cavagnari is a Peruvian feminist writer, historian, and professor. She is the founder and coordinator of the Gender Studies Program at the National University of San Marcos , where she also serves as director of the School of History and coordinator of the Master's in Gender and Development Studies.
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Mary Baine Campbell
1954 - Present (70 years)
Mary Baine Campbell is an American poet, scholar, and professor. She teaches medieval and Renaissance literature, as well as creative writing, at Brandeis University. Awards 1999 James Russell Lowell Prize, awarded to the best book of the year in literary studies, from the Modern Language Association, for Wonder and Science.2000 Susanne C. Glasscock Humanities Book Award1988 Barnard Women Poets Prize
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Iryna Kalynets
1940 - 2012 (72 years)
Iryna Onufriyivna Kalynets was a Ukrainian poet, writer, activist and Soviet dissident during the 1970s. Kalynets was the wife of another Soviet dissident, Ihor Kalynets. Childhood Iryna Kalynets was born in a Christian family of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who was exiled at the time of the USSR. Her father was Onufrii Ivanovych Stasiv, a worker from the Bratkovychi village, Horodotsky district. Her mother was Hanna Dmytrivna Stasiv from a peasant family in the Malnivska Volya village, Mosty district. Among the relatives of Iryna Stasiv were people connected with the OUN. In the post-war years, she observed the mass deportation of Ukrainians to Siberia.
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Paloma Díaz-Mas
1954 - Present (70 years)
Paloma Díaz-Mas is a Spanish writer and scholar. She was born in Madrid and studied journalism and philology at university. In 1981, she obtained her doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with a thesis on the subject of Sephardic poetry. At present, she teaches and conducts research at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid. As a professor of Spanish literature and Sephardic literature, she has taught at the Universidad del País Vasco, the University of Oregon and Washington University in St. Louis.
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Mutlu Konuk Blasing
1944 - 2021 (77 years)
Mutlu Konuk Blasing was a Turkish-American poetry critic and translator, Professor Emerita of English at Brown University. As well as four books on American poetry, she published ten books of translation and a biography of the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet.
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Finuala Dowling
1962 - Present (62 years)
Finuala Dowling is a South African poet and writer. Biography The seventh of eight children born to radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling, Finuala Dowling obtained an MA in English from the University of Cape Town , and a D.Litt. from the University of South Africa , where she lectured in English for eight years.
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Katie Farris
1983 - Present (41 years)
Katie Farris is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, academic and editor. Her memoir in poems Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, was shortlisted for 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Princeton University in New Jersey.
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Carole Boston Weatherford
1956 - Present (68 years)
Carole Boston Weatherford is an African-American author and critic, now living in North Carolina, United States. She is the winner of the 2022 Coretta Scott King Award for Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. She writes children's literature and some historical books, as well as poetry and commentaries. Weatherford is best known for her controversial criticism of Pokémon character Jynx and Dragon Ball character Mr. Popo. Today, she often writes with her son, Jeffery Boston Weatherford, who is an illustrator and poet.
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Aishah Rahman
1936 - 2014 (78 years)
Aishah Rahman was an American playwright, author, professor and essayist. She was known for her participation and contribution to the Black Arts Movement, as well as her plays documenting various aspects of black life.
Go to ProfileBronwyn Law-Viljoen is a South African writer, editor, publisher and professor. She is the co-founder of the publisher Fourthwall Books and owns a bookstore called Edition. She acts as the primary editor for works on law and history of South Africa and the architecture and building process of its constitutional court structures, along with artistic book publications of the work of William Kentridge. She has also published her own novel called The Printmaker.
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Ágnes Lehóczky
1976 - Present (48 years)
Ágnes Lehóczky is a Hungarian-British poet, academic and translator born in Budapest, 1976. Biography She completed her Masters in English and Hungarian Literature at Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary in 2001 and an MA with distinction in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2006. She holds a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing, also from the UEA which she obtained in July 2011. Lehóczky is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield and Co-Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield and Contributing Advisor to Blackbox Manifold l...
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Jacqueline Kolosov
1967 - Present (57 years)
Jacqueline Kolosov is an American poet, children's book author, and professor. Her most recent collection of poetry is Modigliani's Muse , and her most recent young adult novel is A Sweet Disorder . Her poetry has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry, Passages North Orion, PRISM International, The Malahat Review, Ecotone, and Western Humanities Review, and her honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Beth Gylys
1964 - Present (60 years)
Beth Ann Gylys is a poet and professor of English and Creative Writing at Georgia State University. She has published five poetry collections, three of which have won awards. Early life and education Gylys grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Allegheny College with a bachelor's degree in 1986. She went on to receive a master's degree from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from University of Cincinnati. She has also attended the Stonecoast Writers Conference in Portland, Maine.
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Janina Katz
1939 - 2013 (74 years)
Janina Katz was a Polish-Danish writer. A Polish Jew, she emigrated to Denmark in 1969. In 1991, she published her first collection of poems Min mors datter . Biography Katz was born into a Jewish family in Krakow in 1939. Most of her relatives died in concentration camps but she was smuggled out of a Polish workers camp to live with a Polish couple she called her "war parents" who brought her up as a Catholic. After the war, she lived with her mother who had survived imprisonment in various concentration camps.
Go to ProfileMichèle Lowrie is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the college at the University of Chicago. She is a specialist in Roman literature and political thought. Education Lowrie completed a bachelor's degree at Yale University in 1984, followed by a PhD at Harvard University in 1990. Her doctoral thesis was entitled 'Horace's Lyric Exempla' and she was supervised by Richard Tarrant.
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Věnceslava Hrdličková
1924 - 2016 (92 years)
Věnceslava Hrdličková also Věna was a leading Czech sinologist and Japanese historian. Biography Professional life Věnceslava Hrdličková graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in 1950, where she also received a doctorate in philosophy, in 1967 the title of candidate of science, and in the early 1990s the position of an associate professor.
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Liliana Díaz Mindurry
1953 - Present (71 years)
Liliana Díaz Mindurry is an Argentine writer. Biography Liliana Díaz Mindurry was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1953. She earned a law degree at the University of Buenos Aires, where she had previously taught philosophy of law. She was forced to flee to France during the military dictatorship. She stayed there for seven years, until democracy was restored to Argentina. Since then, she has devoted herself exclusively to writing. She leads the literary group Malosayres. She has received several prizes.
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Deryn Rees-Jones
1968 - Present (56 years)
Deryn Rees-Jones is an Anglo-Welsh poet, who lives and works in Liverpool. Although Rees-Jones has spent much of her life in Liverpool, she spent much of her childhood in the family home of Eglwys-bach in North Wales. She considers herself a Welsh writer.
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Lauren K. Alleyne
1979 - Present (45 years)
Lauren K. Alleyne is a Trinidadian-American poet, fiction, and nonfiction writer and educator born and raised in the dual-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Biography In 1997, Alleyne moved to the United States to begin her undergraduate studies in Radiologic Science and Nuclear Medical Technology at St. Francis College in New York. It was not until her junior year that she decided to shift her focus towards English, then graduated with honors from St. Francis College with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. In 2002, she received her Masters of Fine Arts in English with an emphasis on creative writing from Iowa State.
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Myrna Casas
1934 - Present (90 years)
Myrna Casas was a Puerto Rican experimental playwright, director, actress, and theatre scholar. She was the co-founder and artistic director of the company Producciones Cisne. Early life Casas was born in San Juan to Carmen Busó Carrasquillo and Sixto Casas Semidei. She studied Drama at Vassar College, graduating in 1954, and earned a master's degree in acting at Boston University in 1961. She went on to study at New York University where she obtained a doctorate in Theatre education in 1974.
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Beth Gutcheon
1945 - Present (79 years)
Beth Gutcheon is a best-selling American author who has written ten novels and two quilting books. Life and career A graduate of Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, Gutcheon went on to study at Harvard University, earning a bachelor of arts with honors in English.
Go to ProfilePatricia Engel is a Colombian-American writer and author of Vida, which was a PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award Finalist and winner of the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana, Colombia's national prize in literature. She was the first woman, and Vida the first book in translation, to receive the prize. She is also the author of It's Not Love, It's Just Paris, and the novel The Veins of the Ocean, which won the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The San Francisco Chronicle called Engel "a unique and necessary voice for the Americas."
Go to ProfileEmily Fragos is an American poet. She was a Witter Bynner Fellow, and Guggenheim Fellow. Life She graduated from Syracuse University, Paris-Sorbonne University, and Columbia University. She teaches at New York University, and Columbia University.
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Birutė Ciplijauskaitė
1929 - 2017 (88 years)
Birutė Ciplijauskaitė was a Lithuanian literary scholar and translator. She is considered one of the greatest Hispanists in American academia in the twentieth century. The daughter of physician and gynecologist, director of Klaipeda hospital, she attended Kaunas Conservatory and fled Lithuania during World War II. She graduated from the University of Tübingen in 1956 and then the University of Montreal. She received her PhD in Spanish and French from Bryn Mawr College in 1960. Her dissertation, that she wrote under the supervision of Spanish philosopher Jose Ferrater Mora, explored the topic ...
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Pam Durban
1947 - Present (77 years)
Rosa Pam Durban is an American novelist and short story writer. Life Durban graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A. in 1979. She wrote for the Atlanta Gazette from 1974 to 1975.
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Janet Adelman
1941 - 2010 (69 years)
Janet Ann Adelman was an American Shakespeare scholar, literary critic, and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Adelman's most prominent works include book-length critiques of William Shakespeare’s plays presenting new psychoanalytic and feminist readings of Antony and Cleopatra and The Merchant of Venice in "The Common Liar: An Essay on 'Antony & Cleopatra'" and Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in 'The Merchant of Venice , respectively.
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Roberta Teale Swartz
1903 - 1993 (90 years)
Roberta Teale Swartz Chalmers was an American academic, a poet, and co-founder of the Kenyon Review. Early life and education The daughter of William King Swartz and his wife Carrie Teale, Swartz attended Mount Holyoke College, where she took her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925 magna cum laude. After obtaining her Master of Arts degree at Radcliffe College, Harvard University in 1926, she went on to Oxford University, where she obtained her B.Litt. degree in 1929. On 3 September 1929, she married Gordon Keith Chalmers, with whom she had three sons and a daughter.
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Paula Sharp
2000 - Present (24 years)
Paula Sharp is an American author whose fictional works focus on the American family and explore themes of social injustice. Her books include The Woman Who Was Not All There , The Imposter , Lost in Jersey City , Crows over a Wheatfield and I Loved You All . She is also a translator of Latin American fiction, including Antonio Skármeta's La insurrección .
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Marisa de los Santos
1966 - Present (58 years)
Marisa de los Santos , is a New York Times Best Seller list author, and poet. Biography Marisa de los Santos, was born in 1966. She graduated with a bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Virginia before completing an Master of Fine Arts in Sarah Lawrence College and going on to gain a PhD from the University of Houston. She married David Teague with whom she has two children. They have also worked on a number of books together. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware and taught in the University of Delaware. de los Santos has been given a grant for her writing by the Delaware Art...
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Hannelore Bey
1941 - Present (83 years)
Hannelore Bey was a prima ballerina at the Komische Oper Berlin. Life She studied from 1956 to 1961 at the Palucca School of Dance in Dresden. She then studied from 1965 to 1966 at the Waganowa Academy in Leningrad with Belikowa and Puschkin. She was a member of the National Theatre of Dresden from 1961 to 1965 and was a member of the Komische Oper Berlin from 1966. She became a prima ballerina in 1969. In 1975 she had a son Oliver Bey. From 1983 to 1991 she was a member of the Akademie der Künste and she toured in Finland, Norway, Yugoslavia, Romania, Italy, Spain, Iceland, Greece, Czech Rep...
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Fay Kanin
1917 - 2013 (96 years)
Fay Kanin was an American screenwriter, playwright and producer. Kanin was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983. Biography Born Fay Mitchell in New York City to David and Bessie Mitchell, she was raised in Elmira, New York, where she won the New York State Spelling Championship at twelve and was presented with a silver cup by then Governor Franklin Roosevelt. She was encouraged to write for money by supplying small items to the Elmira Star Gazette. She was Jewish.
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Mary Rose O'Reilley
1944 - Present (80 years)
Mary Rose O'Reilley is an American poet, novelist, and writer of non-fiction. Life O'Reilley was born in Pampa, Texas, and educated in Roseville and Saint Paul, Minnesota. She was raised a Catholic and is now a member of the Religious Society of Friends . She has spent time in Buddhist practice, in particular under Thich Nhat Hanh. She graduated from the College of St. Catherine and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Go to ProfileDiane Lockward is an American poet. The author of four full-length books of poetry, Lockward serves as the Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey. Biography Diane Lockward earned her bachelor's degree from Elmira College and her master's from Montclair State University. She is the author of four full-length books of poetry: The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement , Temptation by Water , What Feeds Us , recipient of the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve's Red Dress , all from Wind Publications. She is also the author/editor of four poetry craft books, The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft, T...
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Rita Vorperian
2000 - Present (24 years)
Rita Vorperian is a journalist, writer, translator, and researcher. She has served as teaching fellow and lecturer in Western Armenian at UCLA. She was the former executive director of the Armenian Relief Society in the Western United States from 1998 to 2005 and is currently the senior administrator.
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Elizabeth Searle
1962 - Present (62 years)
Elizabeth Searle is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright and screenwriter. She is the author of five books of fiction and a rock opera, and she is co-writer of "I'll Show You Mine," a feature film from Duplass Brothers Productions and that was released by Gravitas Ventures in 2023 in select theaters in NYC, LA and more and widely via VOD on AmazonPrime, AppleTV, Comcast OnDemand, Vudu and more. The film which Elizabeth co-wrote with David Shields and Tiffany Louquet, is directed by Megan Griffiths and stars Poorna Jagannathan and Casey Thomas Brown. It received positive reviews in the New York Times and more, as well as national media coverage in VARIETY and more.
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Margo Hendricks
1948 - Present (76 years)
Margo Hendricks is an American professor emerita of literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on race and culture in literature. Career Hendricks was awarded a doctorate from the University of California, Riverside in 1987, with a thesis titled 'The Roaring Girls: A Study of 17th Century Feminism and the Development of Feminist Drama'. She worked at San Jose State University before joining University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is Professor Emerita of Renaissance and Early Modern English Literature. She has held ACLS fellowships and in 1990-91 the Ford Fellowship at the Stanford Centre for Humanities.
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Judith Hall
1951 - Present (73 years)
Judith Hall is an American poet. Biography Judith Hall is the author of five poetry collections, including To Put The Mouth To , selected for the National Poetry Series by Richard Howard; Three Trios , her translations of the imaginary poet JII ; and, most recently, Prospects . She also collaborated with David Lehman on Poetry Forum which she illustrated.
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Maria Tore Barbina
1940 - 2007 (67 years)
Maria Tore Barbina was an Italian poet and translator. She was a teacher of Latin Literature at the University of Trieste and of Latin Paleography at University of Udine. Bibliography Dizionario pratico e illustrato Italiano-Friulano / Practical and Illustrated Italian-Friulan Dictionary /Saggio sulle scrittrici in lingua italiana /Essay on female writers in Italian language /La condizione femminile da documenti friulani dell'età dei castelli / Female condition from Friulan document from the age of the castles /Vocabolario della lingua friulana Italiano-Friulano / Vocabulary of Friulan language Italian-Friulan /Diplomi del monastero benedettino di S.
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Jane Satterfield
1964 - Present (60 years)
Jane Satterfield is a British-American poet, essayist, editor, and professor. She is the recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry. Life Jane Satterfield was born in Northamptonshire, England and raised in the United States. She is the daughter of an American serviceman and an Irish-English mother. Her mother had grown up in Corby, where she also gave birth to Satterfield.
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Yanna Hadatty
1969 - Present (55 years)
Yanna Hadatty Mora is an Ecuadorian short story writer and essayist. Biography Haddatty has lived in Mexico since 1992, where she completed her higher education and worked as a professor. She earned her doctorate in Ibero-American Literature from the Autonomous University of Mexico , where she later worked as a professor and researcher of contemporary literature. She also taught at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana and at the UAM Xochimilco.
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Tarfia Faizullah
1980 - Present (44 years)
Tarfia Faizullah is a Bangladeshi American poet. Born in 1980, she was raised in West Texas. She traveled to Bangladesh in 2010 to interview survivors of rape by Pakistani soldiers during the 1971 Liberation War, the birangona. Seam , her first book, was a collection of poems that were inspired by the many interviews she had with the birangona; and won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards Her writing has also appeared widely in media across the US and abroad and has appeared in many journalistic media such as BuzzFeed. In 2016, Harvard Law School included Faizullah in thei...
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Mia Berner
1923 - 2009 (86 years)
Mia Berner was a Norwegian philosopher, sociologist, university lecturer, radio journalist, essayist, novelist, poet and non-fiction writer. Berner grew up in Stavanger, and started studying philosophy at the University of Oslo. During the German occupation of Norway she was involved in resistance work, and had to flee to Sweden in 1943. She was married to the Swedish journalist Sven Öste, and the couple settled on the island of Tjörn, near Gothenburg. In 1975 she married the Finnish poet Pentti Saarikoski. Among her works is the memoir book PS. Anteckningar från et sorgeår from 1985, the nov...
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Amy Bloom
1953 - Present (71 years)
Amy Beth Bloom is an American writer and psychotherapist. She is professor of creative writing at Wesleyan University, and has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Annabelle Sreberny
1949 - Present (75 years)
Annabelle Sreberny was a writer, scholar, and professor of Global Media and Communication and Director of the Centre for Media and Film Studies at SOAS. Her writing covers globalization, communication, and culture with specific foci on international news and Iran.
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