Are both Philip Larkin and Nuruddin Farah English?
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Philip Larkin Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian. His first book of poetry, "The North Ship", was published in 1945, followed by two novels, "Jill" (1946) and "A Girl in Winter" (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, "The Less Deceived", followed by "The Whitsun Weddings" (1964) and "High Windows" (1974). He contributed to "The Daily Telegraph" as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, articles gathered in "All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–71" (1985), and he edited "The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse" (1973). His many honours include the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was offered, but declined, the position of Poet Laureate in 1984, following the death of Sir John Betjeman.
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Nuruddin Farah Nuruddin Farah (Somali: "Nuuradiin Faarax" , Arabic: نورالدين فارح‎ ‎ ) (born 24 November 1945) is a Somali novelist. He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.
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Fariduddin Ganjshakar Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-i-Shakar (c. 1175-1266), known reverentially as Bābā Farīd or Shaykh Farīd by Muslims and Sikhs of South Asia, or simply as Farīduddīn Ganjshakar, was an 12th-century Punjabi Muslim preacher and mystic who went on to become "one of the most revered and distinguished ... Muslim mystics" of the medieval period.
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Lambert Blackwell Larking Lambert Blackwell Larking (2 February 1797 – 2 August 1868) was an English clergyman, writer and antiquarian.
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Hamiduddin Farahi Hamiduddin Farahi (18 November 1863– 11 November 1930) was a celebrated Islamic scholar of South Asia known for his groundbreaking work on the concept of "nazm", or coherence, in the Qur'an. He was instrumental in producing scholarly work on the theory that the verses of the Quran are interconnected in such a way that each surah, or chapter, of the Qu'ran forms a coherent structure, having its own central theme, which he called "umood". He also started writing his own exegesis, or "tafsir" of the Quran which was left incomplete on his death in 1930. The "muqaddimah", or introduction to this is an important work on the theory of "Nazm-ul-Quran".
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Faruque Ahmed Faruque Ahmed (Bengali: ফারুক আহমদ); born 22 January 1964) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, journalist, literary critic, Community Historian, lyricist and dramatist. He is perhaps best known for his book, the 'Bengali Journals and Journalism in Britain (1916–2001)'.
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Goh Poh Seng Goh Poh Seng (; July 1936 – 10 January 2010), Singaporean dramatist, novelist, doctor and poet, was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya in 1936. He was educated at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, received his medical degree from University College Dublin, and practised medicine in Singapore for twenty-five years. His writing blossomed in Ireland, where he met writers Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan, published his poetry in the university magazine, and took a year off school to write. In his time living in Singapore, Dr. Goh held many honorary positions including the Chairman of the National Theatre Trust Board between 1967 and 1972, and Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council from 1967 to 1973. He was committed to the development of Art and cultural policies of post-independent Singapore, as well as the development of cultural institutions such as the Singapore National Symphony, the Chinese Orchestra and the Singapore Dance Company. Goh also opened Singapore's first theatre disco lounge, Rainbow Lounge at Ming Arcade, and Bistro Toulouse-Lautrec at Tanglin Shopping Centre for live jazz and poetry readings, organised Singapore's first David Bowie concert in 1983, and envisioned a livelier Singapore River in the 1970s, a proposal that was only taken seriously decades later.
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Collected Poems (Larkin) Collected Poems is the title of a posthumous collection of Philip Larkin's poetry edited by Anthony Thwaite and published by Faber and Faber. He released two notably different editions in 1988 and 2003, the first of which also includes previously unpublished work. Both editions contain the contents of Larkin's collections "The North Ship", "The Less Deceived", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "High Windows", plus other material.
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Sheen Kaaf Nizam Sheen Kaaf Nizam, born in the year 1947 in Jodhpur, India, is an Urdu poet and literary scholar. His birth name is Shiv Kishan Bissa. Sheen Kaaf Nizam is his pen name. He has edited many volumes of poets in Devanagari including "Deewan-e-Ghalib" and "Deewan-e-Mir".
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James Farrar James Donald Farrar (5 October 1923 – 26 July 1944) was an English poet.
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Adrian A. Husain Adrian A. Husain (born 1942 in Kanpur) is an Indian-born Pakistani poet of the English language. He attended schools in England, Italy and Switzerland, and went to college in Oxford. He received a Ph.D. in English literature with a thesis on Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Castiglione.
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Philip Franks Philip Franks (born 2 February 1956) is an English actor and theatre director, known to the public chiefly for his roles in British television series.
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Philip Ferdinand Philip Ferdinand (1555, Poland - 1598, Leiden) was an English Hebraist.
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Philip Mitchell Philip Mitchell is an English author, playwright, poet and translator. Born in Manchester, England he is an established author with BBC Radio Drama and was a question-setter on the UK game show "Bacha Hi O'Ma!" (the Welsh equivalent of "Blind Date") but is perhaps best known for his acclaimed translation of Caradog Prichard's Welsh language novel "Un Nos Ola Leuad", as "One Moonlit Night" (ISBN  ).
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Martin Lings Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English Muslim writer, scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon and an authority on the work of William Shakespeare, he is best known as the author of "", first published in 1983 and still in print.
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Farah Griffin Farah Griffin (born 1963) is an American academic and professor specializing in African-American literature. She is William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University and Director Elect of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia.
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Abdullah Afzal Abdullah Afzal (Urdu: عبداللہ افضل‎ ) is an English actor and stand-up comedian.
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Philip Traherne Philip Traherne, or Traheron ( ; 9 August 1635 in Lugwardine – 1686 in St. Nicholas, Hereford) was an English diplomat, author of books.
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Farhad Mazhar Farhad Mazhar (Bengali: ফরহাদ মজহার ; born 9 August 1947) is a Bangladeshi poet, columnist, writer, pharmacist, political analyst, social and human rights activist, and environmentalist.
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Larkin 25 Larkin 25 was an arts festival and cultural event in Kingston upon Hull, England, organised to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of the poet and University of Hull librarian, Philip Larkin. The festival was launched at Hull Truck Theatre on 14 June 2010 and concluded on 2 December 2010, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the poet's death, with the unveiling of a statue in his likeness at Hull Paragon Interchange.
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Rumi Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد رومی‎ ‎ ), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى ), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا , "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی , "my master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" and the "best selling poet" in the United States.
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Farouq Molloy Farouq Molloy, born Sean Molloy in 1957 in Plymouth, is a British "outsider" artist. He initially drew on graph paper with a black biro, then began working with colours. His patterned drawings incorporate "Islamic and North African decorative elements", reflecting his conversion to Islam in the early 1990s.