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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Yehuda Amichai, who has published 11 volumes of poetry as well as novels, short stories, and plays, is the most popular and important, and certainly the most widely translated, contemporary Israeli poet. His career...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Although Elias Canetti has been publishing since the 1930s, his writings have only received sustained critical attention in the last 20 years or so. Canetti's belated fame may have been to do with his position as a...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)A German novelist, poet, playwright, and theatre theorist, Peter Handke's work from the beginning was radically innovative in formal terms, although at the same time firmly rooted in his Austrian cultural background...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Born into a prominent, upper-class Puerto Rican family, Rosario Ferré rejected her traditional upbringing and the oppressive role assigned to women in a patriarchal society. Thus many of her female characters are...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Édouard Glissant's oeuvre is almost totally informed by his native land, the Caribbean island of Martinique, its landscapes and the destinies of its people. His early poetry and essays reveal his preoccupations with the...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Michel Butor became known in the late 1950s among the writers of the nouveau roman, the group who were famous for their refusal of traditional concepts of plot, characterization, and use of chronology. Thus began Butor's...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Hélène Cixous is one of the primary champions of l'écriture féminine, within the French feminist literary movement. She shares the effort to promote “feminine writing” with other major theorists, such as Luce Irigaray,...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Although Julien Green was born of American parents and has retained his American citizenship, his preferred language has always been French. His published works, with the exception of an early story and two volumes of...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Juan Goytisolo, who has written short stories, travel books, and several volumes of non-fiction prose, in his early novels concentrates on social realism and a Spain haunted by the civil war, contrasting the world of...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)“You're playing about the same thing all the time,” a mother is said to have complained to her saxophonist son. Unwittingly, she pronounced a comment that fits jazz as well as nearly all literature. It certainly applies...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn figures not only as Russia's most important living writer, but as a prominent political personage, historian, and moral and social philosopher. He ranked with Andrei Sakharov as Soviet Russia's...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Bella Akhmadulina's writing has a highly personal tone. Often identified with the poet herself, Akhmadulina's lyrical narrator steps into the longer narrative poems, and recounts her fantastic adventures. In “Adventure...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Ironically, Václav Havel's stature as a major contemporary dramatist has been partly obscured by the attention given to two diametrically opposed aspects of his personal and political experience. Before the downfall of...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)One of Wislawa Szymborska's finest collections takes its title from her poem “Ludzie na moscie”—“People on a Bridge.” The poem takes as its starting point a famous Japanese print by Hiroshige Utagawa. It opens thus: A...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Juan José Arreola's reputation as one of Mexico's foremost contemporary writers rests on a few volumes of short stories produced at sporadic intervals over a lengthy career. Impressive as these are, Arreola has...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)G. Cabrera Infante is a versatile writer whose audacious works have continually surprised his readers. Under his influence even a deceptively innocent book like Un oficio del siglo veinte (A Twentieth-Century Job), a...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Ernesto Cardenal's work falls into a number of distinct phases—before and after his religious conversion, after the death of Thomas Merton, after his visit to Cuba, before and after the Nicaraguan Revolution. Yet one can...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Jorge Amado is rightly described as Brazil's best-known novelist. An exceedingly prolific writer whose work has spanned seven decades, Amado has been writing since 1931 when he published his first novel, O país do...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)With the recent London staging of Death and the Maiden, and with subsequent productions of the play in New York and around the world, Ariel Dorfman has joined the handful of Latin American writers who are widely known...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Claribel Alegría, born in 1924 in Nicaragua but raised from early childhood in El Salvador, is one of the richest and most versatile literary voices of Central America. She is a poet, essayist, journalist, novelist, and...