Born: Dec 10, 1925, Chechlnik, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.Died: Dec 9, 1977, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer, widely recognized as one of the most important modern writers. She was born in Chechel’nik, Ukraine, and emigrated with her family to northeastern Brazil when she was two months old. In 1937 […]
Born: 1084, Jinan, Shandong province, ChinaDied: after 1155, Jinhua, Zhejiang province Li Qingzhao or Li Ch’ingchao was the best-known female poet writing in China prior to the 20th century. She wrote primarily in a poetic form known as the song lyric (ci or tz’u) in which new words were composed for singing to familiar melodies.
Born: June 24, 1941, Sliven, BulgariaJulia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-born French psychoanalyst and literary theorist, who, drawing on Freudian psychoanalysis and structuralist linguistics, has analyzed the relationship between language, society and the self.In Semeiotiké (1969) she argues that the self is not a stable, autonomous entity, but the product of language. Consequently, those elements that
Died: after 630 One of the greatest Arab poets, Al-Khansa was famous for her elegies. The deaths of two of her kinsmen-her brother Mu’awiyah and her half-brother Sakhr, both of whom had been tribal heads and had been killed in tribal raids sometime before the advent of Islam-threw al-Khansa’ into deep mourning. Her elegies on
Born: c. 1373Died: c. 1440 Margery Kempe was an English mystic and religious writer. She was born at Lynn, Norfolk, the daughter of its mayor, John Burnham. In 1393, she married a local official, John Kempe; they had 14 children. For six months after the birth of her first child, she suffered a mental disorder.
Born: 1907, Farrukhabad, IndiaDied: 1987 She is a well known Hindi poet of the Chhayavaad generation, the times when every poet used to incorporate romanticism in his poetry. She is more often called the modern Meera. Well, we are talking about the famous Mahadevi Varma, who achieved the Jnanpith award in the year 1982.Mahadevi was
Born: June 27, 1880, Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S.Died: June 1, 1968, Westport, Connecticut Helen Adams Keller was an American author and lecturer, who, having overcome considerable physical handicaps, served as an inspiration for other afflicted people. She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When 19 months old, she was stricken with an acute illness that left her
Born: Nov 29, 1843, LondonDied: Dec 8, 1932 Jekyll was an English landscape architect who was the most successful advocate of the natural garden and who brought to the theories of her colleague William Robinson a cultivated sensibility he lacked.Born of a prosperous family, Jekyll was educated in music and painting and travelled in the
Born: May 4, 1916, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S. Jane Jacobs is a Canadian urbanologist noted for her clear and original observations on urban life and its problems.After graduating from high school, she became a reporter on the Scranton Tribune, moving to New York City about a year later. While working as a free-lance writer, she met
Born: 1932, BelgiumIrigaray is a French feminist psychoanalyst and philosopher who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.Irigaray was a member of the Freudian School of Paris, founded by Jacques Lacan, and taught at the University of Paris VIII-Vincennes from 1968 until she was dismissed in 1974 because of her doctoral
Born: March 8, 1895, Melo, UruguayDied: July 1979, Montevideo Juana de Ibarbourou was a Uruguayan poet who achieved great popularity throughout the Spanish-speaking world through her early collections of simple poems with easy rhythms, celebrating love and Nature. Her success in her native country and abroad prompted the Uruguayan government to take the unprecedented step
Born: January 7, 1891, Notasulga, Alabama, U.S.Died: January 28, 1960, Fort Pierce, Florida Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer and folklorist, whose anthropological study of her racial heritage, at a time when black culture was not a popular field of study, influenced the Harlem Renaissance writers of the 1930s. Hurston’s work also had an
Born: July 1967, London Jhumpa Lahiri is a famous Indian American author of Bengali origin. Her first novel, “The Namesake” was a major national bestseller and was named the New York Magazine Book of the Year. Jhumpa Lahiri became the first Asian to win the Pulitzer Prize when she won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for
Born and died—(c. 935-1000), regarded as the first German woman poet Hrosvitha also called Roswitha, was a German poet and chronicler. As a young woman she entered the Benedictine convent of Gandersheim, near Göttingen. Her works, all in Latin, comprise eight religious poems: two historical chronicles in verse, one on the deeds of Holy Roman
Born: Nov 20, 1923, Springs, Transvaal, South Africa Nadine Gordimer is a South African novelist and short- story writer, known for her realistic character dialogue and passionate writing. She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991. Fueled by feelings of frustration with the social and political predicament of a racially divided South Africa, Gordimer’s