Topoli is an Iranian film, whose script is absed on a novella written by John Steinbeck, and published in what year?
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Topoli (film) Topoli (in Persian: تپلی, literally: The Fatty) is a 1972 Iranian film directed by Reza Mirlohi. Morteza Aghili and Homayun play the main characters of the film. The script is based on the novel "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. The film is dedicated to John Steinbeck. The character of Topoli is loosely based on Lennie Small of "Of Mice and Men" as Essi is the Iranian version of George Milton in the novel.
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Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States.
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Refugees (drama) Refugees is a drama by Bosnian writer Zlatko Topčić published in 1999. Drama is a bilingual, Bosnian and English language. In the "Intellect Ltd." edition (United Kingdom - Bristol, United States - Chicago), has been published the book "Refugees Performance" (2013) by Australian professor Michael Balfour, which deals literary, and especially drama creativity, the theme of refugees on more than 300 pages from various aspects. Among eighteen authors from all over the world who artfully testify on this subject, there are also Bosnian writer Zlatko Topčić, whose drama "Refugees" is the only integral published in this prestigious edition.
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Skeletons at the Feast Skeletons at the Feast is a novel by author Chris Bohjalian, published in 2008. It is the story of a journey in the waning months of World War II concerning the Emmerich family, who flee their beloved home in Prussia and move west to avoid the advancing Russian troops. The family consists of one of the novel's main protagonists, Anna; her mother, known affectionately as "Mutti"; her father, Rolf; her twin brother, Helmut; her younger brother, Theo; and the Scottish POW that once worked on the family's farm, Callum Finella, who becomes Anna's lover. Anna also has an older brother, Werner, who is off fighting in the war. Rolf and Helmut leave the family to aid in stopping the Russian advance and the rest continue on alone; on their westward journey they are joined by Uri Singer, an escaped Jew posing as a Nazi officer. Bohjalian said in an interview he was inspired to write the story after being persuaded to read a diary spanning from 1920 to 1945 belonging to Eva Henatsch, a German woman that embarked on a similar journey west across the Third Reich.
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In a Glass Darkly In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death. The second and third are revised versions of previously published stories, and the fourth and fifth are long enough to be called novellas.
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Topaz (novel) Topaz is a Cold War suspense novel by Leon Uris, published in 1967 by McGraw-Hill. The novel spent one week atop "The New York Times" Best Seller List (on the list dated October 15, 1967), and was Uris's first New York Times number-one bestseller since "Exodus" in 1959. During its 52-week run on the list, "Topaz" set two records in two weeks; those for largest positional jump to number-one (9-1) and largest positional fall from number-one (1-5).
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Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse, would meet.
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Ramuntcho Ramuntcho (1897) is a novel by French author Pierre Loti. It is a love and adventure story about contraband runners in the Basque province of France. It is one of Loti's most popular stories—"love, loss and faith remain eternal themes"—with four French film adaptations. It was first published in 5 parts, from 15 December 1896 to 15 February 1897, in the "Revue de Paris". Calmann-Lévy published the novel in two parts on 10 March 1897. A dramatized version was staged in Paris in 1910, with incidental music by Gabriel Pierné.
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Tevye Tevye the Dairyman (] , Yiddish: טבֿיה דער מילכיקער‎ "Tevye der milkhiker", Hebrew: טוביה החולב‎ ‎ ) is the fictional narrator and protagonist of a series of short stories by Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (better known by his pen-name of Sholem Aleichem), originally written in Yiddish, and first published in 1894. The character is best known from the fictional memoir "Tevye and His Daughters" (also called "Tevye's Daughters", "Tevye the Milkman" or "Tevye the Dairyman") as a pious Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia with six troublesome daughters: Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze, Beilke, and Teibel. He is also known from the musical dramatic adaptation of "Tevye and His Daughters", "Fiddler on the Roof." The Village of Boyberik, where the stories are set, is based on the town of Boyarka in Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire).
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All Fall Down (novel) All Fall Down is a 1960 novel by James Leo Herlihy, which was adapted into a 1962 film of the same name directed by John Frankenheimer.
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Of Mice and Men (1939 film) Of Mice and Men is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 play based on the novella of the same title by American author John Steinbeck, and starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field and Lon Chaney, Jr. The supporting cast features Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr. The film tells the story of two men, George and his mentally challenged partner Lennie, trying to survive during the dustbowl of the 1930s and pursuing a dream of owning their own ranch, instead of always working for others. Starring in the lead roles were relative Hollywood newcomer Burgess Meredith as George, and veteran actor Lon Chaney, Jr. (the son of famed silent film actor Lon Chaney) as Lennie. Chaney had appeared in more than 50 films to that point in his career, but "Of Mice and Men" was his first major role.
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Smith of Wootton Major Smith of Wootton Major, first published in 1967, is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards The Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award is an Iranian literary award presented yearly since 2008. Every year, an award is given to the best Iranian authors on the birthday of the renowned Persian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad. The top winner receives 110 Bahar Azadi gold coins (about $33,000), making it Iran's most lucrative literary award. In some years there is no top winner, other notables receive up to 25 gold coins. Categories include "Novel", "Short story", "Literary criticism" and "History and documentations". The award was confirmed by the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council in 2005, the first award was presented in 2008.
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Sweet Thursday Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck. It is a sequel to "Cannery Row" and set in the years after the end of World War II. According to the author, "Sweet Thursday" is the day between Lousy Wednesday and Waiting Friday.
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My Father's Rifle My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan is a novella by Kurdish screenplay writer, writer, and film director Hiner Saleem (2004, ISBN  ). The novella is a fictionalized account of Saleem's childhood in Kurdistan.
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Vladimir Bartol Vladimir Bartol (24 February 1903 – 12 September 1967) was a writer from the community of Slovene minority in Italy. He is notable for writing his 1938 novel "Alamut", the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, translated into numerous languages.
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Money (novel) Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. In 2005 "Time" magazine included the novel in its "100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present". The novel is based on Amis's experience as a script writer on the feature film "Saturn 3", a Kirk Douglas vehicle.
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John Steinbeck IV John Steinbeck IV (June 12, 1946 – February 7, 1991) was an American journalist and author. He was the second child of the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. In 1965, he was drafted into the United States Army and served in Vietnam. He worked as a journalist for Armed Forces Radio and TV, and as a war correspondent for the United States Department of Defense.
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Tamam Shud case The Tamam Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after the Persian phrase "tamám shud," meaning "ended" or "finished", printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", authored by 12th-century poet Omar Khayyám."Tamam" was misspelt as "Taman" in many early reports and this error has often been repeated.
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Safet Sušić (novel) Safet Sušić Pape is the bestseller novel by Bosnian writer Zlatko Topčić published in 2007.
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In Desert and Wilderness In Desert and Wilderness (Polish: "W pustyni i w puszczy" ) is a popular young adult novel by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, written in 1911. It is the author's only novel written for children/teenagers. "In Desert and Wilderness" tells the story of two young friends, Staś Tarkowski (14 years old) and Nel Rawlison (8 years old), kidnapped by rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan. It was adapted for film twice, in 1973 and in 2001.
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Baran (film) Baran (Persian: باران‎ ‎ ; literally: "Rain") is a 2001 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi, based on an original script by Majid Majidi. The movie is set during recent times in which there are a large number of Afghan refugees living on the outskirts of Tehran. Almost a silent movie, Baran won a number of awards both nationally and internationally for the director and writer Majid Majidi.