The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Literature,
#5401
Pam Durban
#94287
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 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
#82244
Overall Influence
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
#58721
Overall Influence
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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Jack Ross
#123320
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Jack Ross , is a New Zealand poet, novelist, translator, editor and lecturer in creative writing. A trilogy of novels has been published by two different publishers, Alan Brunton's Bumper Books and Titus Books.
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Paula Sharp
#127077
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 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
#122012
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 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
#85751
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 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
#98182
Overall Influence
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
#64627
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 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.
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Diane Lockward
#144431
Overall Influence
Diane 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
#91409
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 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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Mohammad Rafiq
#45601
Overall Influence
1943 - 2023 (80 years)
Mohammad Rafiq was a Bangladeshi poet. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1987 and Ekushey Padak in 2010. Early life Rafiq was born on 23 October 1943 in the village of Baitpur, Bagerhat, Bangladesh . In his youth, his country was going through political instability. During his student life at Dhaka University, he was a political activist and was arrested and jailed twice. Pakistani martial law court sentenced him to ten years of hard labor. He later was released earlier to complete his university studies. During the War of Independence of Bangladesh, he served as a Sector-1 commander and motivated the freedom fighters.
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Pio Fontana
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Overall Influence
1927 - 2001 (74 years)
Pio Fontana was a Swiss teacher and writer. Personal life and education Fontana was born in Balerna in Switzerland on 23 October 1927 to Demetrio and Maria Fontana. He attended the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. His graduation thesis, supervised by Mario Apollonio, was on the subject of the sixteenth century Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto's Cinque Canti and it was published in 1962.
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Labi Siffre
#65478
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Claudius Afolabi Siffre , better known as Labi Siffre , is a British singer, songwriter and poet. Siffre released six albums between 1970 and 1975, and four between 1988 and 1998. His best known compositions include "It Must Be Love" which reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart in 1971 , "Crying Laughing Loving Lying", and " So Strong"—an anti-apartheid song inspired by a television documentary in which white soldiers in South Africa were filmed shooting at black civilians in the street—which hit number 4 on the UK chart. The latter song won Siffre the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Music...
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Elizabeth Searle
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Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 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
#151318
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 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
#121037
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 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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Edward L. Hart
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Overall Influence
1916 - 2008 (92 years)
Edward LeRoy Hart was a Latter-day Saint poet. He wrote the words to "Our Savior's Love" which is #113 in the current LDS hymnbook. He was also an English professor at Brigham Young University and wrote many poems.
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Louis J. Budd
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Overall Influence
1921 - 2010 (89 years)
Louis J. Budd was a James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, a literary critic and a leading Mark Twain scholar. He helped to develop and served as managing editor of the journal American Literature from 1986 to 1991.
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David Rueda
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Overall Influence
David Rueda is professor of comparative politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford who researches comparative political economy, the welfare state and labour market policy. He is an editor of the Socio-Economic Review.
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Keith Alldritt
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Overall Influence
1935 - Present (91 years)
Keith Alldritt is a contemporary British novelist, biographer and critic. Biography Aldritt was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He lives and works in the West Midlands, the setting for his novels. For some years he was a Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Illinois and then at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has written extensively for radio, television and film and has contributed articles on modern and contemporary art to various magazines and newspapers in Britain, Canada and the United States.
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Maria Tore Barbina
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Overall Influence
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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David Newman
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Overall Influence
1937 - 2003 (66 years)
David Newman was an American screenwriter. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s he frequently collaborated with Robert Benton. He was married to fellow writer Leslie Newman, with whom he had two children, until his death in 2003 from a stroke.
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T. R. Hummer
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Terry Randolph Hummer is an American poet, critic, essayist, editor, and professor. His most recent books of poetry are After the Afterlife and the three linked volumes Ephemeron, Skandalon, and Eon . He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, The Literati Quarterly, Paris Review, and Georgia Review. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship inclusion in the 1995 edition of Best American Poetry, the Hanes Prize for Poetry, the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, and three Pushcart Prizes.
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Ken Jones
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Overall Influence
1930 - 2015 (85 years)
Kenneth Henry Jones was a Welsh Buddhist activist, poet, and teacher. He was considered an important voice in socially engaged Buddhism. Biography Born in Wales, Jones spent much of his career in higher learning. As an anarchist, Jones had at different times been associated with Communist Party of Great Britain, the Labour Party and the UK Green Party.
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Jane Satterfield
#150489
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 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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Ifeanyi Menkiti
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Overall Influence
1940 - 2019 (79 years)
Ifeanyi Anthony Menkiti was a Nigerian poet, philosopher, and professor, as well as the owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Life and career Menkiti was born in Onitsha, Nigeria in 1940. In 1961, he arrived in the United States to study at Pomona College, where he graduated in 1964. Following postgraduate study at Columbia University and New York University, Menkiti earned a PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1974. His dissertation was "a study of collective responsibility". From 1974 he taught philosophy at Wellesley College in the US with a particular focus on p...
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Jim Hilgartner
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Overall Influence
Jim Hilgartner is an American author of poetry and fiction. He writes primarily short fiction, often composing longer stories from assembled shorter vignettes. He received his MFA from the University of Alabama. He taught at Alabama and at Alabama Southern Community College, and since 2006 has been teaching English at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. Hilgartner has twice received the Fellowship in Literature from the Alabama State Council on the Arts: in 2001 and again in 2011.
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Tetsuya Chiba
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Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Tetsuya Chiba is a Japanese manga artist famous for his sports stories. Chiba's works include Ashita no Joe, his best known work, and Notari Matsutarō. Many of his early titles are still in print due to continued popularity.
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Charles R. Lyons
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Overall Influence
1933 - 1999 (66 years)
Charles R. Lyons was an American professor of drama and comparative literature at Stanford University and co-owner of the art gallery Lyons Ltd. He received his AB , MA , and PhD from Stanford as well. As an undergraduate at Stanford he focused on Shakespeare with the legendary professor Margery Bailey, the namesake of his endowed chair. He is best known as a theorist and teacher of theater. His interest in performance began in the 1950s as a professional actor in Los Angeles where he routinely performed at the Pasadena Playhouse. After finishing his masters, Lyons spent four years as a lie...
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Yanna Hadatty
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 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
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Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 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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Derry O'Sullivan
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Derry O'Sullivan is an Irish poet living in Paris, France. He was born in 1944 in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. His poetry collections in the Irish language are: "Cá bhfuil do Iudás?" - winner of four Oireachtas Literary prizes and the Seán Ó Ríordáin Memorial Prize; "Cá bhfuil Tiarna Talún l’Univers?" ; "An Lá go dTáinig Siad" , a long poem about the Nazi occupation of Paris, and "An bhfuil cead agam dul amach, más é do thoil é?" . He has participated in literary festivals in Ireland, France, the US and Canada and his work has been published in numerous literary reviews and anthologies.
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Mia Berner
#78361
Overall Influence
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
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 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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Junior Burke
#130680
Overall Influence
Born Thomas Burke Bishop, Jr., Junior Burke is an American fiction writer, songwriter and educator. Fiction Burke's novel, Something Gorgeous was published in 2005. This work of speculative fiction explored the background of the era that spawned The Great Gatsby and was lauded for its invention by the UK's Historical Novel Society. In 2012, in a slightly revised version, it became available as an e/book. In 2005, Burke founded the online literary journal, "not enough night" and served as Executive Editor until he and fellow editor Maureen Owen chose to discontinue publication in 2014. "A T...
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Annabelle Sreberny
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 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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Eyvind Fjeld Halvorsen
#105802
Overall Influence
1922 - 2013 (91 years)
Eyvind Fjeld Halvorsen was a Norwegian philologist. He was born in Ringerike. He was hired as a docent at the University of Oslo in 1954, took the dr.philos. degree in 1959 on the thesis The Norse Version of the Chanson de Roland and served as a professor at the University of Oslo from 1962 to 1992. He served as dean from 1964 to 1970. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was also involved as chairman and vice chairman of Norsk språknemnd 1958 to 1972 and its successor body the Norwegian Language Council from 1972 to 1988.
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Shelly Lowenkopf
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Overall Influence
1931 - Present (95 years)
Shelly Lowenkopf is an American writer and editor. He was an instructor in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California from 1974 until 2008. In 2012, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Edwin Wilson
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Overall Influence
1927 - Present (99 years)
Edwin Wilson was the theater critic for The Wall Street Journal from 1972 to 1994. The author or co-author, with Alvin Goldfarb, of several widely used text books on theater, he taught at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center for thirty years. He has been the president of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and the Theatre Development Fund, the chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Drama Jury, and a board member of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the John Golden Fund. He has also written a novel, The Patron Murders.
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Vasilis Papageorgiou
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Vasilis Papageorgiou is a Greek-Swedish writer and translator. Since 1975 he lives in Sweden. He has translated books of numerous writers into Greek, such as W. G. Sebald, Willy Kyrklund, Eva Runefelt, , Tomas Tranströmer and John Ashbery. He has translated into Swedish books of Odysseas Elytis, , Kenneth Koch, W. G. Sebald, all the poems and fragments of Sappho and an annotated collection with posthumous poems and prose of Konstantinos Kavafis. He has published essays, book reviews and literary texts in Greek, Swedish and British journals. He is a docent of comparative literature and prof...
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Don Paterson
#107485
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Donald Paterson is a Scottish poet, writer and musician. His work has won several awards, including the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2009.
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Bruce Dobler
#151064
Overall Influence
1939 - 2010 (71 years)
Bruce Dobler was an American writer. Life Born June 30, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, Bruce Dobler earned his BA at the University of Illinois and MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1969–1970, Dobler was the first "writer-in-residence" at Phillips Exeter Academy. Later he taught English Literature and Writing at Windham College, the University of Arizona, and the University of Texas, El Paso. He taught writing at the University of Pittsburgh from 1979 until his retirement in 2008. Dobler was married to the poet Patricia Dobler . He divorced her in 1992. On July 4, 2008, he married Julieta Ba...
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Candace Slater
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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Candace Slater is an American academic and researcher specializing in Brazilian literature and culture. She was born in Mineola, New York. Slater received a PhD from Stanford University. She is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary area of research has been folk and popular traditions in Brazil, in other countries in Latin America and on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Jeffrey Skinner
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Jeffrey Skinner is an American poet, writer, playwright, and emeritus professor in the Department of English at the University of Louisville. His most recent collection of poetry is Salt Water Amnesia, . Skinner is editor of two anthologies of poems, Last Call: Poems of Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance; and Passing the Word: Poets and Their Mentors. Skinner's poems have appeared in many literary journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review and The Paris Review.
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Paul Zanker
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Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Paul Zanker is the professor of Storia dell’Arte Antica at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Previously Zanker was professor of classical archaeology at the University of Munich and the University of Göttingen . He is a noted expert on Roman art and archaeology and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, of the Academia Europaea, of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology and of the German Archaeological Institute. From 1990 to 1991 he was the Sather professor of the University of California at Berkeley.
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Mónica Echeverría
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Overall Influence
1920 - 2020 (100 years)
Monica Echeverría Yáñez was a Chilean journalist, writer, actress and a Literature professor. She defined herself as a feminist since "before people called it that" and called herself a "rebel" and "anarchist" in the face of the neoliberal economic course of the Chilean government.
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Lynn Sukenick
#145359
Overall Influence
1937 - 1995 (58 years)
Lynn Luria Sukenick was an American poet. She is also credited with coining the terms "daughter centric", and "matrophobic". Life She received her undergraduate education at Brandeis University. She received a doctorate in English from City University of New York.
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Zhana Nikolova-Gŭlŭbova
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Overall Influence
1908 - 2009 (101 years)
Zhana Nikolova-Gŭlŭbova was a Bulgarian philology scientist, essayist and publicist. She was an author of literary and linguistic research, and philosophical essays. Her main scientific interests were in the field of literary criticism and lexicography. She was also a certified translator and editor. She was the first woman teaching at Sofia University. She was awarded the highest honorary degree of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 'Doctor Honoris Causa'. She died in 2009, aged 101.
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Grażyna Vetulani
#59622
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Grażyna Małgorzata Vetulani née Świerczyńska is a Polish philologist and linguist, professor of the humanities, professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
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