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List of the most influential people in Literature,

#2801

Khudiram Das

#35591

Overall Influence

1916 - 2002 (86 years)

Khudiram Das was an Indian scholar, educationist, critic, litterateur, an authority on Rabindra literature and linguistic expert. Early life and family Khudiram Das was born in Beliatore situated in Bankura District, West Bengal to Satish Chandra Das and Kaminibala Devi. He studied in Middle English School in Bankura till Sixth standard and passed the Matric Examination in 1933 with Letter marks in Bengali and Sanskrit and I.A. Examination in 1935 from Bankura Zilla School, achieving 1st Division in both examinations. He graduated in Sanskrit with Honours from Bankura Christian College attaining 1st Class Third position in the year 1937.

#2802

Jack Matthews

#21158

Overall Influence

1925 - 2013 (88 years)

Jack Matthews was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright and former professor. He published 7 novels, 11 story collections, a novella, and 8 volumes of essays. He was an avid book collector, and many of his book finds served as a basis for his essays and the historical topics he explored in his fiction. His 1972 novel The Charisma Campaigns was nominated by Walker Percy for the National Book Award. He has often made 19th century America and the Civil War period the setting for his fiction, starting with his 1981 novel Sassafras and most recently with the 2011 novel Gambler's Nephew and a 2015 story collection Soldier Boys: Tales of the Civil War.

#2803

Ravi Shankar

#41418

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Dr. Ravi Shankar is an American poet, editor, and former literature professor at Central Connecticut State University and City University of Hong Kong and Chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators . He is the founding editor of online literary journal Drunken Boat. He has been called "a diaspora icon" by The Hindu and "one of America's finest younger poets" by former Connecticut poet laureate Dick Allen.

#2804

Hıfzı Topuz

#18766

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (103 years)

Hıfzı Topuz was a Turkish journalist, travel writer and novelist. He also served as a lecturer on journalism at several universities. Early life Topuz was born on 25 January 1923 in Istanbul. After finishing his secondary education at the Galatasaray High School in 1942, he studied law at Istanbul University, graduating in 1948. Later, he went to France, where he attended University of Strasbourg to conduct further studies in international law and journalism between 1957 and 1959. In 1960, he earned a doctoral degree in journalism from the same university.

#2805

Mila Pavićević

#95104

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Mila Pavićević is a Croatian writer. She was born and raised in Dubrovnik, and studied at the University of Zagreb. Active in writing from an early age, she won the EU Prize for Literature for her book Ice Girl and Other Fairy-tales.

#2806

Menna Elfyn

#70430

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Menna Elfyn , FLSW is a Welsh poet, playwright, columnist, and editor who writes in Welsh. She has been widely commended and translated. She was imprisoned for her campaigning as a Welsh-language activist.

#2807

Jeremy Reed

#47647

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Jeremy Reed is a Jersey-born poet, novelist, biographer and literary critic. Career Reed has published over 50 works in 25 years. He has written more than two dozen books of poetry, 12 novels, and volumes of literary and music criticism. He has also published translations of Montale, Cocteau, Nasrallah, Adonis, Bogary and Hölderlin. His own work has been translated abroad in more than a dozen languages. He has received awards from Somerset Maugham, Eric Gregory, Ingram Merrill, Royal Literary Fund and the Arts Council. He has also won the Poetry Society's European Translation Prize.

#2808

Huỳnh Sanh Thông

#31836

Overall Influence

1926 - 2008 (82 years)

Huỳnh Sanh Thông was a Vietnamese American scholar and translator. Life He was born to a rice-miller mother and a Francophile primary schoolteacher father in Hóc Môn, close to Sài Gòn . When the family moved into Sài Gòn itself, Thông enrolled at the prestigious Lycée Petrus Trương Vĩnh Ký where he studied French literature, specializing particularly in the works of Molière and La Fontaine.

#2809

Egon Bondy

#21703

Overall Influence

1930 - 2007 (77 years)

Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer , was a Czech philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the leading personalities of the Prague underground. In the late 1940s, Bondy was active in a surrealistic group. From 1957 to 1961, he studied philosophy and psychology at Charles University in Prague. From the 1960s he was considered to be one of the main figures of the Prague underground, particularly once his texts were set to music by The Plastic People of the Universe in the 1970s. His non-conformism brought him into conflict with the totalitarian communist regime in Czechoslovakia. His works were circulate...

#2810

Michael Lawrence

#38346

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Michael C. Lawrence is an English writer for children and young adults. His work most widely held in WorldCat libraries is the 2003 novel A Crack in the Line, first in a trilogy called The Aldous Lexicon, or Withern Rise in the United States. Much of the Jiggy McCue series of sixteen books is widely held in participating libraries. His only known website active in 2022 is that of the graphics artist McLaw.

#2811

F. D. Reeve

#53739

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Franklin D'Olier Reeve was an American academic, writer, poet, Russian translator, and editor. He was also the father of Superman actor Christopher Reeve. He was the grandson of the first American Legion national commander, Franklin D'Olier.

#2812

Patricia Spears Jones

Patricia Spears Jones

#79432

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Patricia Spears Jones is an American poet. She is the author of five books of poetry. Jones is the editor of "The Future Differently Imagined", an issue of About Place Journal, the online publication of Black Earth Institute. Previously, she was the co-editor for Ordinary Women: Poems of New York City Women. Her poem "Beuys and the Blonde" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Jones was the winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize for 2017, and she will serve as the 2020 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University.

#2813

Catriona Seth

#44167

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Catriona Jane Seth, FBA is a British scholar of French literature and the history of ideas. Since 2015, she has been Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

#2814

Jacques Scherer

#75326

Overall Influence

1912 - 1997 (85 years)

Jacques Scherer was a French scholar, who was a professor in universities in France and at the University of Oxford. Career Jacques Scherer was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and then studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, gaining his doctorate. He was Professor of French Literature at the University of Nancy from 1946 to 1954, when he moved to Sorbonne University as Professor of French Literature and Theatre. He left in 1973 on his appointment as Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford, a position that carried with it a Fellowship of All Souls College, Oxford. In 1979, he returned to France as Professor at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.

#2815

Keith Botsford

#24400

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Keith Botsford was an American/European writer, Professor Emeritus at Boston University and editor of News from the Republic of Letters. Biography Keith Botsford was born in Brussels, Belgium of an expatriate American father and an Italian mother. His mother was born Carolina Elena Rangoni-Machiavelli-Publicola-Santacroce, 2nd. daughter of the Marchesa Alda Rangoni. He grew up in a trilingual house, and was educated in English boarding schools. His father returned to the United States early in 1939, and together with his mother and brother, the Botsfords were expelled from Italy on the outb...

#2816

David Martin

#45095

Overall Influence

1915 - 1997 (82 years)

David Martin , born Lajos or Ludwig Detsinyi, into a Jewish family in Hungary , was an Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, editor, literary reviewer and lecturer. He also used the names Louis Adam and Louis Destiny, adopting the name David Martin after moving to England.

#2817

Thomas Bredsdorff

#76310

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Thomas Bredsdorff is a Danish literary scholar and critic. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1976 from the University of Copenhagen, where he was professor of Nordic literature from 1978 to 2004. He has written about books and culture for the Danish newspaper Politiken since 1965. He worked for Kristeligt Dagblad from 1959-1964. His books and articles are aimed at both academics and the general public.

#2818

Lawrence Thornton

#39630

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Lawrence Thornton is an American novelist and critic living in Claremont, California. His most well known novel, Imagining Argentina, employs the methods of magic realism to tell a story of the Dirty War . This novel, along with Naming the Spirits and Tales from the Blue Archives, makes up the Argentina Trilogy. His work, published in eighteen languages, is frequently taught in schools and universities. In 2003 a film was made of Imagining Argentina by Christopher Hampton starring Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson and Claire Bloom . In 1996, Zorongo Flamenco, a Minneapolis-based flamenco troupe, staged a flamenco version of the novel that featured an international cast of dancers and singers.

#2819

Ruth Yeazell

#57150

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ruth Bernard Yeazell is an American literary critic. Ruth Bernard Yeazell was born on April 4, 1947, in New York City. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967, then attended Yale University. Yeazell taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Boston University before returning to Yale in 1991, where she was named the Chace Family Professor of English. Yeazell was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979, and granted membership into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. As of 2018, she is the Sterling Professor of English at Yale, the highest honor bestowed on Ya...

#2820

Sarah Joseph

#45610

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Sarah Joseph is an Indian novelist and short story writer in Malayalam. She won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award and the Vayalar Award for her novel Aalahayude Penmakkal . She is a leader of the feminist movement in Kerala and is the founder of the activist organization Manushi. She joined the Aam Aadmi Party in 2014 and contested the 2014 parliament elections from Thrissur.

#2821

Peter Kavanagh

#52726

Overall Influence

1916 - 2006 (90 years)

Peter Kavanagh was a writer, scholar, and publisher who collected, edited, and published the works of his brother, poet Patrick Kavanagh. Education Kavanagh was born in the Parish of Inniskeen, Ireland, the youngest of ten children. He attended the local schools, continued to secondary school, and upon receiving his diploma from the Patrician Brothers School in Carrickmacross, Kavanagh attended St. Patrick's Teachers College in Dublin, where he became a certified National Teacher , graduated M.A. from the National University of Ireland , and Ph.D. from Trinity College, Dublin in .

#2822

Brian Woledge

#43895

Overall Influence

1904 - 2002 (98 years)

Brian Woledge, FBA , a scholar of Old French language and literature, was Fielden Professor of French at University College London from 1939 to 1971. Biography Brian Woledge spent his childhood in Leeds, studying at the Leeds Boys' Modern School and Leeds University. He earned a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1930, writing a dissertation on the medieval French romance L'âtre périlleux.

#2823

Ana Cecilia Blum

#95501

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Ana Cecilia Blum is an Ecuadorian writer and journalist. She studied Political and Social Sciences at the Vicente Rocafuerte Lay University of Guayaquil. She worked for several media and investigating about literature at the Catholic University of Guayaquil, Andean University of Quito and the FACSO University of Guayaquil. She currently lives between Ecuador and the United States.

#2824

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

#30664

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is an editor, essayist, poet, and novelist. She is considered to be outspoken in her views about Native American politics, particularly in regards to tribal sovereignty. She has criticized those who make tenuous claims to Native/Indigenous ancestry with the purpose of advancing their own careers, and described such claimants with no community connections as "tribeless". She believes they damage the development of economic and social life of Native nations.

#2825

Arnold Hano

#48334

Overall Influence

1922 - 2021 (99 years)

Arnold Philip Hano was an American editor, novelist, biographer and journalist, best known for his non-fiction work A Day in the Bleachers, a critically acclaimed eyewitness account of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, centered on its pivotal play, Willie Mays' famous catch and throw. The author of several sports biographies, and frequent contributor to such publications as The New York Times, Sport, Sports Illustrated, and TV Guide, Hano was, in 1963, both a Hillman Prize winner and NSSA's Magazine Sportswriter of the Year. He was also Baseball Reliquary's 2012 Hilda Award recipient and a 2...

#2826

Fernand Dumont

#41118

Overall Influence

1927 - 1997 (70 years)

Fernand Dumont was a Canadian sociologist, philosopher, theologian, and poet from Quebec. A longtime professor at Université Laval, he won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1968 Governor General's Awards for Le lieu de l'homme.

#2827

Ian Young

#67224

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Ian Young is an English-Canadian poet, editor, literary critic, and historian. He was a member of the University of Toronto Homophile Association, the first post-Stonewall gay organization in Canada. He founded Canada's first gay publishing company, Catalyst Press, in 1970, printing over thirty works of poetry and fiction by Canadian, British, and American writers until the press ceased operation in 1980. His work has appeared in Canadian Notes & Queries, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Rites and Continuum, as well as in more than fifty anthologies. He was a regular columnist for The Body...

#2828

Ian Gibson

#24641

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Ian Gibson is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel. and particularly his work on the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca was banned in Spain under Franco.

#2829

Maurice Kenny

#51669

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

Maurice Frank Kenny was an American poet who identified as Mohawk descent. Life Maurice Frank Kenny was born on August 16, 1929, in Watertown, New York. He identified his father as being of Mohawk and Irish ancestry, from Canada and his mother, who was born in Upstate New York, as being of English and Seneca ancestry. Despite identifying as being of Native American descent, he was not enrolled in any Native nation.

#2830

Alexei Ratmansky

Alexei Ratmansky

#21669

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a Russian-American choreographer and former ballet dancer. From 2004 to 2008 he was the director of the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet. He left Russia in 2008. In 2009 he was appointed the artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre, and as artist in residence at the New York City Ballet from August 2023.

#2831

Svetlana Alpers

#17139

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Svetlana Leontief Alpers is an American art historian, also a professor, writer and critic. Her specialty is Dutch Golden Age painting, a field she revolutionized with her 1984 book The Art of Describing. She has also written on Tiepolo, Rubens, Bruegel, and Velázquez, among others.

#2832

Luisa Josefina Hernández

#73318

Overall Influence

1928 - 2023 (95 years)

Luisa Josefina Hernández was a Mexican writer and playwright. Hernández died on 16 January 2023, at the age of 94. Works Plays Aguardiente de caña, 1951.Botica modelo, 1954.Los frutos caídos, 1955.Los huéspedes reales, 1956.La paz ficticia, 1960.El orden de los factores, 1983.El amigo secreto, 1986.Carta de Navegaciones Submarina, 1987.Habrá poesía, 1990.Las bodas, 1993.Zona templada, 1993.Los grandes muertos, 1999-2001.Una noche para bruno, 2007.La fiesta del mulato, 1966. Translated by William I. Oliver as 'The Mulatto's Orgy', Voices of Change in the Spanish American Theater, Austin: Univ...

#2833

Andrew Taylor

#46359

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Andrew Taylor is a British author best known for his crime and historical novels, which include the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and historical novels such as the number-one best-selling The American Boy and The Ashes of London. His accolades include the Diamond Dagger, Britain's top crime-writing award.

#2834

Noy Holland

#77095

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Noy Holland is an American writer. Biography Holland received her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Florida in 1994. Holland is a Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has also taught at Phillips Academy and the University of Florida. She directs the Writers in the Schools Project in Amherst, Massachusetts.

#2835

Charbel Dagher

#48766

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Charbel Dagher is a Lebanese professor at the University of Balamand, Koura, Lebanon. He has been an active and prominent voice on the Arab cultural scene, mainly in the fields of poetry, Arabic language, and Arab and Islamic arts. He is a Poet, writer and story-writer in both Arabic and French.

#2836

Ron Milner

#59106

Overall Influence

1938 - 2004 (66 years)

Ronald Milner was an American playwright. His play Checkmates, starring Paul Winfield and Denzel Washington, ran on Broadway in 1988. Milner also taught creative writing at the University of Southern California, Wayne State University, and Michigan State University.

#2837

Greg Woolf

#55084

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Gregory Duncan Woolf, is a British ancient historian, archaeologist, and academic. He specialises in the late Iron Age and the Roman Empire. Since July 2021, he has been Ronald J. Mellor Chair of Ancient History at University of California, Los Angeles. He previously taught at the University of Leicester and the University of Oxford, and was then Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews from 1998 to 2014. From 2015 to 2021, he was the Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, and Professor of Classics at the University of London.

#2838

Fay Zwicky

#67298

Overall Influence

1933 - 2017 (84 years)

Fay Zwicky was an Australian poet, short story writer, critic and academic primarily known for her autobiographical poem Kaddish, which deals with her identity as a Jewish writer. Life Born Julia Fay Rosefield, Zwicky grew up in suburban Melbourne. Her family was fourth generation Australian—her father, a doctor; her mother, a musician. Zwicky was an accomplished pianist by the age of six, and performed with her violinist and cellist sisters while still at school. After completing her schooling at Anglican institutions, she entered the University of Melbourne in 1950, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in 1954.

#2839

Hellmut Flashar

Hellmut Flashar

#33771

Overall Influence

1929 - 2022 (93 years)

Hellmut Flashar was a German classical philologist and translator. Life and career Flashar was born in Hamburg on 3 December 1929. As a professor, he taught at the University of Bochum and the University of Munich .

#2840

Antonya Nelson

#45056

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Antonya Nelson is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories. Life and education Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961, in Wichita, Kansas. She received a BA degree from the University of Kansas in 1983 and an MFA degree from the University of Arizona in 1986. She lives in Telluride, Colorado; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Houston, Texas.

#2841

Joshua Whitehead

#64310

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (37 years)

Joshua Whitehead is a Canadian First Nations, two spirit poet and novelist. An Oji-Cree member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, he began publishing poetry while pursuing undergraduate studies at the University of Winnipeg.

#2842

Oksana Ivanenko

#25488

Overall Influence

1906 - 1997 (91 years)

Oksana Dmytrivna Ivanenko was a Ukrainian children's writer and translator. In 1974, she was the winner of the Lesia Ukrainka Literary Prize for the novels Рідні діти , Тарасові шляхи , and Лісові казки . She was also the winner of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1986, for the book Завжди в житті . She was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, three Orders of the Badge of Honor, and medals.

#2843

Paul Carroll

#59955

Overall Influence

1926 - 1996 (70 years)

Paul Carroll was an American poet and the founder of the Poetry Center of Chicago. A professor for many years at the University of Illinois at Chicago and professor emeritus, his books include Poem in Its Skin and Odes. While a student, he was an editor of Chicago Review. In 1985 he won the Chicago Poet's Award, and the city published his book "The Garden of Earthly Delights". His papers, The Paul Carroll Papers, are archived in the Special Collection Research Center at the University of Chicago Library. Among those papers are documents between Carroll's buddy, fellow poet and critic James Dickey, where Mr.

#2844

Karl Riha

#68193

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Karl Riha is a German author and literary scholar. From 1989, he published the series Vergessene Autoren der Moderne , along with Marcel Beyer at the University of Siegen. In 1996, he was awarded the Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor.

#2845

Shigemi Inaga

#50699

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Shigemi Inaga is a Japanese scholar in comparative literature, culture, and the history of cultural exchange. Education Inaga studied for a Master of Arts degree in comparative literature and 19th-century French art history at the University of Tokyo before earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1988 at Paris Diderot University.

#2846

E. D. Blodgett

#66028

Overall Influence

1935 - 2018 (83 years)

Edward Dickinson Blodgett was a Canadian poet, literary critic, and translator who won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1996 for his collection Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano . Biography Born in Philadelphia and educated at Rutgers University, E. D. Blodgett emigrated to Canada in 1966 to work as a literature professor at the University of Alberta. With his book, Configuration and other articles Blodgett became instrumental in promoting Comparative Canadian Literature and extending the binary model of the Sherbrooke School of Comparative Canadian Literature begun by Ronald Sutherland with Second Image: Comparative Studies in Quebec/Canadian Literature .

#2847

Danielle Allen

#16619

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Danielle Susan Allen is an American political scientist. She is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is also the former Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

#2848

Diana Ferrus

#41469

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Diana Ferrus is a South African writer and storyteller of mixed Khoisan and slave ancestry. Her work is published in Afrikaans and English. Ferrus leads writing workshops in Cape Town while working as an administrator at the University of the Western Cape.

#2849

Rei Berroa

#76239

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Rei Berroa is a Dominican-American poet, university professor, literary and cultural critic, and translator living in the United States. He has published more than 25 books of poetry, anthologies, translations, and literary criticism.

#2850

Guy Stroumsa

#42715

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Guy Gedalyah Stroumsa is an Israeli scholar of religion. He is Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Emeritus Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at the University of Oxford, where he is an Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He is a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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