Related Research Articles
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. It was later adapted into a critically acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London, England that The Independent called "...theater at its best".
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1996.
A humorist (American) or humourist is an intellectual who uses humor, or wit, in writing or public speaking, but is not an artist who seeks only to elicit laughs. Humorists are distinct from comedians, who are show business entertainers whose business is to make an audience laugh. It is possible to play both roles in the course of a career.
Marin Sorescu was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist.
Francis Heaney is a professional puzzle writer and editor for GAMES Magazine, as well as a former editor of Enigma, the official publication of the National Puzzlers' League, the composer and co-lyricist of the Off-Off-Broadway musical We're All Dead, and the author of the webcomic Six Things.
Richard Murphy was an Anglo-Irish poet.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
This is a list of works by Neil Gaiman.
The Faber Book of Irish Verse was a poetry anthology edited by John Montague and first published in 1974 by Faber and Faber. Recognised as an important collection, it has been described as 'the only general anthology of Irish verse in the past 30 years that has a claim to be a work of art in itself ... still the freshest introduction to the full range of Irish poetry'. According to Montague, "I'm dealing with a thousand years of Irish verse in under four hundred pages. I needed a thousand pages.'
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
That part of the United Kingdom called Northern Ireland was created in 1922, with the partition of the island of Ireland. The majority of the population of Northern Ireland wanted to remain within the United Kingdom. Most of these were the Protestant descendants of colonists from Great Britain.
Gabriel Gbadamosi is a British poet, playwright and novelist of Irish-Nigerian descent.
References
- ↑ Holy Tango of Literature, at Richard's Poor Almanac, by Richard Thompson; published February 2, 2012; retrieved August 8, 2016
- ↑ Index of ANAGRAM, at Modern Humorist
- ↑ ShelfTalker: Holy Tango of Literature, by Alison Morris, at Publishers Weekly; published March 28, 2007; retrieved August 8, 2016
- ↑ Curiosities of literature, by Sam Leith, in the Spectator ; published October 9, 2010; retrieved August 8, 2016
- ↑ the last tea post, by Neil Gaiman, at NeilGaiman.com; published June 6, 2005; retrieved August 8, 2016
- ↑ boat of many crullers, by Douglas Wolk, at lacunae.com; published February 20, 2006; retrieved August 8, 2016