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#6701

Paula Cizmar

#173880

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Paula Cizmar is an American academic, playwright and librettist. Cizmar's work has been selected for EnVision, the Sundance Theatre Lab, and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; a National Endowment for the Arts grant; a nomination to The Kilroy List, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation; and a TCG/Mellon Foundation On the Road grant. .She has served residencies at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy;

#6702

Constance Bartlett Hieatt

#119406

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

Constance Bartlett Hieatt was an American scholar with a broad interest in medieval languages and literatures, including Old Norse literature, Anglo-Saxon prosody and literature, and Middle English language, literature, and culture. She was an editor and translator of Karlamagnús saga, of Beowulf, and a scholar of Geoffrey Chaucer. She was particularly known as one of the world's foremost experts in English medieval cooking and cookbooks, and authored and co-authored a number of important books considered essential publications in the field.

#6703

Anuja Akathoottu

#74134

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (39 years)

Anuja Akathoottu is a Malayalam language poet and short story writer from Kerala, India. In 2019, she received the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for her collection of poems Amma Urangunnilla. Biography Anuja A. R. popularly known as Anuja Akathoottu was born in 1987 in Paipra near Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district, as the daughter of Paipra Radhakrishnan and Nalini Bekal. She was educated at Sacred Heart, Thrissur, Little Flower, Muvattupuzha, and St. Augustine's Higher Secondary School, Muvattupuzha. She completed BSc from Kerala Agricultural University with university rank and PG and PhD from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi with IARI Gold Medal for PG.

#6704

Shigeo Kishibe

#62015

Overall Influence

1912 - 2005 (93 years)

Shigeo Kishibe was a Japanese musicologist specializing in the study of East Asian music. Life Kishibe was born in Tokyo in the district of Kanda-Jinbōchō, to Fukuo Kishibe, an educator and children's writer. He was first exposed to music through music in his father's stories, and made his first record and stage appearance at age 9 and first appeared on the radio at age 14. As a teenager, he became fascinated by Asian history. At this time he also met the eminent scholar of Japanese and Asian music Hisao Tanabe. In April 1933, he enrolled at the Tokyo Imperial University Division of Asiatic History of the Faculty of Letters, studying under Hiroshi Ikeuchi.

#6705

Toni McNaron

#126169

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Toni McNaron, also known as Toni A. H. McNaron, is an American literary scholar. She is a professor emerita of English at the University of Minnesota, and the author of several books, including Poisoned Ivy, about lesbophobic and homophobic workplace bullying in academia.

#6706

Kelly Stuart

#168569

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Kelly Stuart is an American playwright. Life She lived in Los Angeles. She has been a New Dramatists writer in residence at The Royal National Theatre’s Studio in London. She lives in New York, and teaches in the Theatre Department at Columbia University.

#6707

Duncan Rice

#33215

Overall Influence

1942 - 2022 (80 years)

Sir Charles Duncan Rice was a Scottish academic who was Principal of the University of Aberdeen from September 1996 to 1 April 2010. He previously served at New York University in the United States, as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and Vice-Chancellor .

#6708

Amy Monticello

#186505

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Amy Monticello is an American essayist, lecturer, and non fiction writer. Monticello is the author of Close Quarters and How to Euthanize a Horse . Life and work Amy Monticello was born in Endicott, New York in 1982. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at The Ohio State University in 2008. Her book Close Quarters, is classified as a chapbook. In constructing her non-fiction chapbook she took a collection of her shorter essays from a larger project she was working on and used the novella form as a guide. She is an Associate Professor at Suffolk University in Boston, MA.

#6709

Sheldon Currie

#169984

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Sheldon John Currie is a Canadian author, critic and professor emeritus . His books include The Glace Bay Miners' Museum, The Company Store and Down the Coaltown Road. A movie, Margaret's Museum, was based on The Glace Bay Miners' Museum. Currie was born in Reserve Mines, Cape Breton as one of five children.

#6710

Matthew Griffin

#186541

Overall Influence

Matthew Griffin is an American writer. His debut novel Hide won the Crook's Corner Book Prize in 2017, and was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards.

#6711

Joe Barton

#169489

Overall Influence

Joe Barton is a British screenwriter of film and television, best known for the crime series Giri/Haji and the science-fiction thriller The Lazarus Project. Early life Barton was born in London. He studied Film and Television Production at the University of Westminster, and one of his first jobs was as a driver on Cass.

#6712

Karol Maliszewski

Karol Maliszewski

#171452

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Karol Maliszewski is a Polish poet, prose writer, literary critic, and literary scholar. He is habilitated doctor - professor at the University of Wrocław. Life and work Maliszewski was born on 27 Juli 1960. He graduated from the Henryk Sienkiewicz High School in Nowa Ruda, where he excelled in Humanities. Karol Maliszewski made his debut as a poet in 1978 in the monthly Radar. Maliszewski studied at the University of Wrocław's and University of Opole. Co-founder of the Nowa Ruda Literary Club Ogma, member of the Polish-Czech Group of Poets '97. In 1993 he became a member of the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich.

#6713

Lisa L. Moore

#98673

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Lisa L. Moore is a Canadian-American academic and poet. She earned a B.A. in English with honors at Queen's University in 1986, and then completed her doctorate at Cornell University in 1991. Principal themes in Moore’s work include the centrality of love between women to literary genres such as the novel, the landscape arts, and the sonnet; the transatlantic and multi-racial history of feminist art and thinking; and the importance of poetry to second-wave feminist, womanist, and lesbian cultures and politics.

#6714

Martine Bellen

#157257

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Martine Bellen is an American poet, editor and librettist. Career She has taught at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York University, Rutgers University, and Hofstra University. She is currently teaching at Rachel Carson Intermediate School She was writer in residence at University of Central Oklahoma. She was a contributing editor of the literary journal Conjunctions, and Web del Sol.

#6715

Harold Hellenbrand

#121252

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Harold Hellenbrand is a retired American college professor, scholar, administrator, and author. He has held several faculty and administrative roles at various institutions, such as the Chair of the English department at California State University, San Bernardino, Dean at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Dean at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and most notably, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at California State University, Northridge, where until his retirement he taught in the English department. He is known especially for his biography of Thomas...

#6716

John Field

#66698

Overall Influence

1921 - 1991 (70 years)

John Field was an English ballet dancer, choreographer, director and teacher. He was a renowned member of the Vic-Wells Ballet and Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet and was also artistic director of the La Scala Theatre Ballet.

#6717

Richard Greeman

#93699

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Richard Greeman is a Marxist scholar long active in human rights, anti-war, anti-nuclear, environmental and labor struggles in the U.S., Latin America, France, and Russia. Greeman is best known for his studies and translations of the Franco-Russian novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge . Greeman also writes regularly about politics, international class struggles and revolutionary theory. Co-founder of the Praxis Research and Education Center in Moscow, Russia, and director of the International Victor Serge Foundation, Greeman splits his time between Montpellier, France and New York City.

#6718

Carlo Cataldo

#161860

Overall Influence

1933 - 2021 (88 years)

Carlo Cataldo was an Italian historian, poet, and teacher. Biography Cataldo was born in Alcamo, Italy. From childhood he was fond of reading and studying historical events; in 1943, when schools were closed because of war in the district of Alcamo, he devoted himself to read the newspaper Giornale di Sicilia to know the most important news. He read La Divina Commedia and I promessi sposi that he found in his father's library.

#6719

Leela Corman

#177094

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Leela Corman is an American cartoonist and illustrator. Corman created the 2012 graphic novel Unterzakhn, which follows the lives of Jewish twin sisters growing up in the tenements of New York City's Lower East Side at the turn of the last century. Unterzakhn was published by Schocken Books and nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Eisner Award, and Le Prix Artemisia. Portions of Unterzakhn were serialized in HEEB magazine and Lilith magazine.

#6720

Hani al-Rahib

#116191

Overall Influence

1939 - 2000 (61 years)

Hani Muhammad-Ali al-Rahib was a Syrian novelist and literary academic who wrote a number of distinguished novels. The Defeated was his first novel, which was published in 1961 when he was 22 years old. In the same year, he won the Al-Adab magazine literature award. His second novel was titled A Crack in a Long History then came A Thousand and Two Nights in 1977, followed in the early 1980s by The Epidemic, which some critics chose as one of the 100 most important Arab novels published in the twentieth century, according to Al-Faisal Magazine.

#6721

Arthur Kirsch

#180483

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Arthur C Kirsch is a literary critic noted for his scholarly writings on Shakespeare, Dryden, and W. H. Auden. He taught for many years at the University of Virginia, where he is now professor emeritus.

#6722

Simone White

#129010

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Simone White is an American poet, literary critic, and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2017, she won a Whiting Award for poetry. Much of her writing style is a hybrid between poetry and prose.

#6723

Paul La Farge

#148316

Overall Influence

1970 - 2023 (53 years)

Paul Bayard La Farge was a novelist and essayist. He authored five novels: The Artist of the Missing , Haussmann, or the Distinction , The Facts of Winter , Luminous Airplanes , and The Night Ocean , all of which, particularly Haussmann, earned positive critical attention. His essays, fiction and reviews have appeared in publications such as The Believer, The Village Voice, Harper's, and The New Yorker.

#6724

Chie Shinohara

#146499

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Chie Shinohara is a Japanese manga artist best known for Red River, known in Japan as Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori: Anatolia Story. She has twice received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo, in 1987 for Yami no Purple Eye and in 2001 for Red River.

#6725

Thomas Mohnike

#175538

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Thomas Mohnike is a specialist in Literature and Cultural Studies and Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Strasbourg. Biography Born in East Berlin, Thomas Mohnike grew up in Magdeburg where he completed his high school education with the Abitur. Starting 1993 he studied art history, Germanic studies, Scandinavian studies and cultural studies in Charleston, Kiel, Uppsala and Berlin. In 2001, he completed his master's degree at the Nordeuropa-Institut of the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis Leerstellen barocker Repräsentation. Der Paratext in den Ausgaben von Georg Stiernhielms Hercules und sein Einfluss auf die Interpretation.

#6726

Gazmend Kapllani

Gazmend Kapllani

#137787

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Gazmend Kapllani is an Albanian-born writer and journalist. He is the author of the best-selling novel A Short Border Handbook. He lives in Chicago, Illinois. Early life and education Gazmend Kapllani was born in Lushnjë, Albania on August 1, 1967. The Kapllani family has been forced from their land and resettled by the Communist regime of Enver Hohxa. In 1991, as the popular movement against the communist regime started gathering momentum in Albania, Kapllani led a political rally in Lushnjë. After that, he had to hide from the secret police, and eventually escaped to Greece. Kapllani settled...

#6727

Elizabeth Ammons

#185542

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Elizabeth Ammons is professor emerita at Tufts University. She was previously the Harriet B. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University. Early life and education Ammons attended University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

#6728

Steve Smith

#114417

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Steven Smith Jr. is a Canadian actor, writer and comedian. He is best known as the co-creator and star of the sketch comedy show The Red Green Show , for which he portrayed the title character. Early life Smith was born in Toronto on Christmas Eve 1945. Before turning to comedy, he studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and then worked a variety of jobs. In 1979, he began to produce, write, and star in Smith & Smith, a sketch comedy series with a cast consisting of Smith and his wife, Morag Smith. The show was produced for Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH-TV and syndicated to other televi...

#6729

Graham Zanker

#169571

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Graham Zanker is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury and an affiliate at the University of Adelaide. He has published widely on Hellenistic poetry and art, Homeric ethics, and Virgilian epic.

#6730

Sean Singer

#178768

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Sean Singer is an American poet. His book Discography won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and the Norma Farber First Book Award in 2001. His second book Honey & Smoke was published by Eyewear Publishing in 2015. His third book, Today in the Taxi, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2022.

#6731

Emily Erbelding

Emily Erbelding

#106597

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Emily J. Erbelding is an American physician-scientist. She is the director of the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . Erbelding was previously deputy director of the Division of AIDS at NIAID. She was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as director of clinical services for the Baltimore City Health Department STD/HIV program.

#6732

Ibtisam al-Samadi

#130222

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Ibtisam Ismai'l al-Samadi is a Syrian poet and academic. She was born in Jasim in Daraa and studied elementary and middle school in Beirut and then moved to Syria to complete her studies. She graduated from Damascus University in English and returned to Beirut to complete her postgraduate studies. Started writing at a young age. She is one of the academies of Damascus University in the Department of Arts and English.Involved into politics and became a member of the Syrian People's Assembly. Her poetry books are printed and she is the owner of Tuesday Cultural Salon.

#6733

James Enge

#151810

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

James Enge is the pseudonym of James M. Pfundstein, an American fantasy and sword and sorcery author. His best known work is the ongoing Morlock the Maker series. His first novel in the series, Blood of Ambrose, was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 2010. His newest series, A Tournament of Shadows, tells the origin story of his famous character Morlock Ambrosius.

#6734

Carole Satyamurti

#128283

Overall Influence

1939 - 2019 (80 years)

Carole Satyamurti was a British poet, sociologist, and translator. Personal life Satyamurti grew up in Kent, and lived in North America, Singapore and Uganda. She lived in London until her death on 13 August 2019, aged 80.

#6735

Martin Harrison

#164310

Overall Influence

1949 - 2014 (65 years)

Martin Harrison was an Anglo-Australian poet. Born and educated in England, Harrison arrived in Australia in the late 1970s after spending three years in New Zealand. He published poems and limited edition books in London and New Zealand before his first main collection, The Distribution of Voice ,appeared in Australia in 1993. In the 1980s Harrison worked as a literary journalist and reviewer as well as a producer for ABC Radio, where he was closely associated with sound art, new music and experimental radio work.

#6736

Orlando Lübbert

#176324

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Orlando Lübbert is a Chilean screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his film A Cab for Three. Filmography Der Übergang Taxi para tres Cirqo External links

#6737

Sybil Kein

#138525

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Sybil Kein, also known as Consuela Provost , was a Louisiana Creole poet, playwright, scholar, and musician. She largely created the field of Creole Studies through her early publications and presentations.

#6738

Wayne Miller

#162291

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Wayne Joshua Miller is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. Life and career Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Miller earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from the University of Houston. For twelve years he taught at the University of Central Missouri, where he was an editor of the literary journal Pleiades. Since 2014 he has taught at the University of Colorado Denver, where he serves as editor/managing editor of Copper Nickel. With Kevin Prufer, he also co-curates the Unsung Masters Series.

#6739

Valeri Frid

#174060

Overall Influence

1922 - 1998 (76 years)

Valeri Semyonovich Frid was a Soviet screenwriter. Most of his works were made together with Yuli Dunsky. Both of them were imprisoned in Gulag labor camps. Filmography Writer 1991 Lost in Siberia1990 Death in Сinema1987 The Tale of the Painter in Love1984 And Then Came Bumbo1983 Every Tenth1983 Adventures of the Little Muk1982 The Story of the Voyages1981 Don't be Afraid, I'm with You1980 Air Crew1980 The Gadfly1979 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Bloody Signature1979 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: Acquaintance1976 How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor1976 The Widows1974 High Title / For the Life on Earth1973 High Title / I, Shapovalov T.

#6740

George Bruce

#177259

Overall Influence

1909 - 2002 (93 years)

George Bruce OBE was a Scottish poet and radio journalist. He was educated at Fraserburgh Academy and Aberdeen University and later taught at the High School of Dundee, commuting across the Tay from Wormit in Fife.

#6741

Laurie Sheck

#169412

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Laurie Sheck is an American author and professor. In 1996, her book of poetry, The Willow Grove, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her other collections of poetry include Captivity and Amaranth .

#6742

Thomas Parkinson

#127981

Overall Influence

1920 - 1992 (72 years)

Thomas F. Parkinson Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, was a poet in his own right; an expert on the poetry of W. B. Yeats; and one of the first academic authorities to write about the Beat poets and novelists of San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s. A deeply thoughtful man of great integrity, he was a quiet political activist for much of his life, and survived a murder attempt in 1961 by a deranged former student who sought to "get someone who was associated with Communism." Though Parkinson survived being shot in the face , the teaching assistant who was with him at the time was killed.

#6743

Brent Hayes Edwards

#187027

Overall Influence

#6744

Charles Lynch

#64495

Overall Influence

1919 - 1994 (75 years)

Charles Burchill Lynch, was a Canadian journalist and author. Biography Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Canadian parents, he moved with his family to Saint John, New Brunswick when he was two weeks old. In 1936, he started his career in journalism with the Saint John Citizen and then moved on to the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, followed by the Canadian Press in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

#6745

Azra Meadows

#100978

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Azra Meadows is a Scottish lecturer of Pakistani descent. is an Honorary Lecturer in the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences at The University of Glasgow and is married to Professor Peter S. Meadows, along with whom she has carried out extensive work of an environmental, cultural and educational nature in both Scotland and Pakistan. Azra Meadows was born in Glasgow to Pakistani parents.

#6746

Harvey Yunis

#178911

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Harvey Yunis is an American classicist and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classics at Rice University. He is an eminent scholar of Greek rhetoric, tragedy, and political thought. He has taught at Rice University since 1987.

#6747

Jan Richman

#187078

Overall Influence

Jan Richman is an American poet. Life She graduated from the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program. In 2001, Jan Richman and Beth Lisick presented a benefit "Poetry & Pizza," by 9x9 Industries. She worked at SF Gate, the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle. She read at Edinburgh Castle, and Writers With Drinks Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, Comet, Other Magazine, The Bloomsbury Review, Luna,

#6748

Adrian Daub

#170668

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Adrian Daub is a German literary scholar and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, who has served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and serves as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford.

#6749

Ana Arzoumanian

#154489

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ana Arzoumanian is an Argentine lawyer, writer, poet, and translator. Biography Ana Arzoumanian was born in Buenos Aires in 1962, a descendant of Armenian immigrants and the granddaughter of survivors of the Armenian genocide. She currently resides in Buenos Aires.

#6750

Alejandro Rejon Huchin

#182401

Overall Influence

1997 - Present (29 years)

Wilberth Alejandro Rejon Huchin is a Mexican poet and cultural manager. He was a fellow at the 2016 interface cultural festival in Mérida. Director of the Tecoh international poetry festival, Yucatán. Some of his texts have been translated into Arabic, Italian and Romanian.

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