Which writer was also a translator, Harold Pinter or Fernando Pessoa?
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Harold Pinter Harold Pinter ( ; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include "The Birthday Party" (1957), "The Homecoming" (1964), and "Betrayal" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include "The Servant" (1963), "The Go-Between" (1971), "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981), "The Trial" (1993), and "Sleuth" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.
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Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (] ; June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935), commonly known as Fernando Pessoa, was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.
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Pedro Zarraluki Pedro Zarraluki (born 1954) is a Spanish writer. He was born in Barcelona. He published his first book at the age of 20 and has written several novels and short story collections since then. He has won numerous prizes, including the Premio Nadal for his novel "Un encargo difícil", and the Premio Herralde for "La historia del silencio". The latter was translated into English by Nick Caistor.
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Henry Woolf Henry Woolf, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 20 January 1930 in Holborn, London) is a British actor, theatre director and teacher of acting, drama and theatre who lives in Canada, and a longtime friend and collaborator of 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, having stimulated Pinter to write his first play, "The Room" (1957), in 1956. Woolf served as a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan from 1983 to 1997 and as artistic director of Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan from 1991 until 2001.
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Juan García Ponce Juan García Ponce (September 22, 1932—December 27, 2003) was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator and critic of Mexican art.
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Samanta Schweblin Samanta Schweblin was born in Buenos Aires in 1978. In 2001 she was granted her first award by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (national Fund of the Arts). In that same year, her first book "El núcleo del Disturbio" (Planeta, 2002) garnered her the first prize of the Concurso Nacional Haroldo Conti. (National Contest Haroldo Conti). In 2008 she obtained the prize "Casa de las Americas" for her storybook "La Furia de las pestes", soon to be published. She was included in the anthologies "Quand elles se glissent dans la peau d'un homme" (Éditions Michalon, Francia. 2007), "Una terraza propia" (Norma, 2006), "La joven guardia" (Norma, 2005), "Cuentos Argentinos" (Siruela, España 2004), among others. In 2010 she was chosen by the Granta magazine as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under 35 years. Some of her stories have been translated into English, French, Serbian, Swedish, Dutch, and Danish, and published in magazines and other cultural forums. An English translation of her story "Killing a Dog" was published in the Summer 2009 issue of the London-based quarterly newspaper The Drawbridge.
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Richard Seaver Richard Woodward Seaver (December 31, 1926 – January 6, 2009) was an American translator, editor and publisher. Seaver was instrumental in defying censorship, to bring to light works by authors such as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Hubert Selby, Eugène Ionesco, E.M. Cioran, D.H. Lawrence, Jack Kerouac, Robert Coover, Harold Pinter and the Marquis de Sade.
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E. H. Visiak Edward Harold Physick (20 July 1878 – 30 August 1972) was an English writer, known chiefly as a critic and authority on John Milton; also a poet and fantasy writer. He used the pseudonym E. H. Visiak from 1910.
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Inês Pedrosa Inês Pedrosa (born August 15, 1962 in Coimbra) is a Portuguese journalist, novelist, short story writer, children's writer and playwright. She was director of the "Casa Fernando Pessoa". Her novels have also been published in Brazil, Croatia, Germany, Italy and Spain.
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Pinocchio Pinocchio ( ; ] ), the name a variant of common "pinolo" ("pine seed"), or "pine's eye" ("occhio", the Italian word for eye), is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a village near Florence, he was created as a wooden puppet but dreamed of becoming a real boy. He lies often.
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The Athenian Murders The Athenian Murders is an historical mystery novel written by Spanish author José Carlos Somoza. Originally published in Spain under the title "La caverna de las ideas" (The Cave of Ideas) in 2000, it was translated into English in 2002 by Sonia Soto. "The Athenian Murders" is Somoza's first novel to be published in English. It won the 2002 Gold Dagger Award.
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João Paulo Cuenca João Paulo Cuenca (Rio de Janeiro, 1978) is a Brazilian writer, considered to be among the new generation of promising Brazilian authors. In 2012, the English literary magazine "Granta" named him as one of the 20 best Brazilian writers under 40. In 2007, he was selected by the Hay Festival as one of the most talented 39 Latin American writers under 39. His striking eloquence creates scenarios which change effortlessly between common surroundings and surreal incidents.
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Cesário Verde Cesário Verde (25 February 1855 – 19 July 1886) was a 19th-century Portuguese poet. His work, while mostly ignored during his lifetime and not well known outside of the country’s borders even today, is generally considered to be amongst the most important in Portuguese poetry and is widely taught in schools. This is partly due to his being championed by many other authors after his death, notably Fernando Pessoa.
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Pessoa (magazine) Pessoa is a Brazilian online literary magazine that publishes poetry, short-stories, drama, interviews, essays, and book reviews, besides covering the Lusophone literature market. Founded in 2010 and published by Mombak, its editor-in-large is . It is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Aimé Césaire Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a Francophone and French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature". He wrote such works as "Une Tempête", a response to Shakespeare's play "The Tempest", and "Discours sur le colonialisme" ("Discourse on Colonialism"), an essay describing the strife between the colonizers and the colonized. His works have been translated into many languages.
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Gareth Alban Davies Gareth Alban Davies (30 July 1926 – 9 February 2009), was a Welsh poet, educator and Hispanist who was Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. Davies translated many Spanish texts into English and Welsh, and was a noted expert on the works of Fernando Arrabal and Federico García Lorca.
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Ola Hansson Ola Hansson (12 November 1860, Hönsinge, Sweden – 26 September 1925, Büyükdere, Turkey) was a Swedish poet, prose writer, and critic.
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Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (15 August 1938 – 19 January 2007) was a Portuguese poet, dramatist, translator and essayist.
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Sergi Pàmies Sergi Pàmies (] ) (born 1960 in Paris) is a Spanish writer, translator, journalist and television and radio presenter. He is the son of the writer Teresa Pàmies and the former general secretary of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, Gregorio López Raimundo. In his works he employs humor and parody mixing them with themes of failure and desperation. He translated works by Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Agota Kristof, Daniel Pennac and Amélie Nothomb. He received several awards for his literary works.
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Hugo Mujica Hugo Mujica (born 30 August 1942) is an Argentine Catholic priest, poet, writer, and former Trappist monk.
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Epitácio Pais Born to a "bhatkar", or landowning family, Epitácio Pais was a primary school teacher by profession. He attended "liceu", or high school, in Portuguese before undergoing his teacher training. He contributed short stories in Portuguese to newspapers such as "Diário de Goa" and "O Heraldo" from the 1950s to the 1980s. He also participated in the Portuguese-language programme "Renascença", which ran on All-India Radio until the 1980s. For José Pereira, Pais was "one of Goa’s prominent writers of fiction in Portuguese". For Manuel de Seabra and Vimala Devi, Pais was a writer who felt the world around him in all his poetry and tragedy and whose writing was reminiscent of Russian writers like Turgenev and Korolenko.
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Latin American Boom The Latin American Boom was a flourishing of literature, poetry and criticism in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s, when writers from this region explored new ideas and came to international renown in a way that had not happened previously. Major figures of the boom include Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa.