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Jhumpa Lahiri, British-American writer, writing in Italian; Tahar Lamri, Algerian-Italian journalist and short story writer; Aga Lesiewicz, Polish-British novelist [5] Hideo Levy, American-born Japanese language author; Yiyun Li, Chinese-American novelist and short story writer; Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian novelist
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
Waugh's first fiction with a Catholic theme was the short story "Out of Depth" (1933) about the immutability of the Mass. [213] From the mid-1930s onwards, Catholicism and conservative politics were much featured in his journalistic and non-fiction writing [214] before he reverted to his former manner with Scoop (1938), a novel about journalism ...
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The impracticality of working with a language which has long ceased to be one's principal language of daily use is illustrated by Conrad's 1921 attempt at translating into English the Polish physicist, columnist, story-writer, and comedy-writer Bruno Winawer's short play, The Book of Job. Najder writes:
One of the main themes of the two stories is to discuss the unreliable nature of language as a method of expressing meaning. [166] In 1919, Lovecraft's discovery of the stories of Lord Dunsany moved his writing in a new direction, resulting in a series of fantasies. Throughout his life, Lovecraft referred to Dunsany as the author who had the ...
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Joseph Rudyard Kipling FRSL (/ ˈ r ʌ d j ər d / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [1] was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.