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Nora Adamian (born Eleonora Georgievna Adamova; 1910 - 1991) was a Soviet Armenian writer. She was born in Baku in 1910, and studied at Baku State University between 1927 and 1930. She worked for the newspaper Kommunist in Yerevan from 1938 to 1945. Her literary endeavours commenced in the 1930s, although she was not published until the 1950s. Growing up and living in the Transcaucasia region, her work reflects the multiethnic, multicultural nature of the region. She published a series of short story collections; her stories have been translated into English, Spanish, Polish, Bengali and other languages. She also wrote novels such as The Second Wife (1966).
She was married to the writer Yakov Volchek. Together they wrote the script for the film Zero Three which was shot at the Tallinnfilm studio in 1965. The film (as well as a radio play) was based on a 1961 story by Adamian. [1]
She died in 1991.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.
Sindiwe Magona is a South African writer.
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Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
Olga Masters née Lawler was an Australian writer, journalist, novelist and short story writer. Masters' children went on to be notable figures in journalism, media and film making.
Meridel Le Sueur was an American writer associated with the proletarian literature movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born as Meridel Wharton, she assumed the name of her mother's second husband, Arthur Le Sueur, the former Socialist mayor of Minot, North Dakota.
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Afag Masud is an Azerbaijani writer, and playwright. She has been honored with the title of People’s Writer, Honored Art Worker, a full member of Peter’s Academy of Art and Science, a full member of European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Literature, member of the Georgian Writers Association? Board Chair of the Azerbaijan Translation Centre, and editor-in-chief of the “Khazar” World Literature Magazine. playwright, Honored Art Worker, "Humay" award winner, Chief editor of "Khazar" world literature magazine.
Dilyara Alakbar qizi Aliyeva was an Azerbaijani philologist, translator and Women's rights activist and Member of Supreme Council of Azerbaijan from 1990–1991.
Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, also spelled Chemenzeminli, born Yusif Mirbaba oghlu Vazirov was an Azerbaijani statesman and writer known for his novels, short stories, essays, and diaries. Evidence points to the fact that Chamanzaminli was the primary core author of the famous romance novel Ali and Nino first published in 1937 in Austria under the pen-name of Kurban Said.
Petros Heronimosi Adamian was a male actor, poet, writer, artist and public figure in the Ottoman Empire. He was Armenian by ethnicity.
Nigar Khudadat qizi Rafibeyli was an Azerbaijani writer and the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan. She was the mother of Anar Rzayev, novel and short-story writer, and the wife of the famous writer and poet Rasul Rza.
Rasul Rza, was an Azerbaijani writer, Hero of Socialist Labour (1980), People's Poet of Azerbaijan, Laureate of Soviet State Award and the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan. He was the husband of Azerbaijani writer Nigar Rafibeyli and the father of writer Anar Rzayev.
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Inna Lisnyanskaya or Inna Lisnianskaya was a Jewish-Russian poet from USSR, later Russia. Her most creative period of writing occurred in the village for poets and writers of Peredelkino near Moscow, where she lived with her husband and co-worker, Semyon Lipkin. Her daughter Elena Makarova is also a well-known writer. She was a recipient of the Solzhenitsyn Prize and Russia's Poet Prize.