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Anne Born
Anne Born (9 July 1924 – 27 July 2011) was a British poet, local historian, writer and translator. Biography Anne Rosemary Cookes was born in south London on 9 July 1924. She joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry during the Second World War, and taught Morse code at the SOE at Grendon Underwood, Bucks, where she met Povl Born, a Danish air force pilot. In 1946 they married and moved to Copenhagen, where she studied English literature at the university. She became fluent in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. She began writing poetry and, at the same time, began translating Scandinavian writers into English, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen, Jens Christian Grøndahl, Per Petterson, Michael Larsen, Janne Teller, Stig Holmas, Carsten Jensen, Sissel Lie, Henrik Stangerup, and Knud Hjortø. In the 1980s, she moved to Salcombe, Devon, where she wrote books on local history. She founded the poetry publisher Overstep Books in 1992, and ran it until 2008. Recogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Janne Teller
Janne Teller (born 8 April 1964 in Copenhagen) is a Danish writer of Austrian–German descent, who lives in New York City, New York and Berlin. Before she became a full-time writer she used to work as a conflict advisor for European Union, EU and UNO, mostly in Africa. Literature Janne Teller's literature, consisting of mainly novels and essays, but also short stories – as well as various works for young adults – always focuses on larger existential perspectives of life and human civilization and often sparks controversial and heated debates. She has received many literary awards, and her work is translated over 25 languages. Janne Teller's novels cover a wide variety of contemporary and philosophical issues. They include the highly praised modern Nordic saga Odin's Island (1999), dealing with religious and political fanaticism; Europa (2004), about European identity and the binds of history in love and war; and Come (2008), about ethics in art and modern life. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Women Poets
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Culture, language and peoples * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity * English studies, the study of English language and literature Media * ''English'' (2013 film), a Malayalam-language film * ''English'' (novel), a Chinese book by Wang Gang ** ''English'' (2018 film), a Chinese adaptation * ''The English'' (TV series), a 2022 Western-genre miniseries * ''English'' (play), a 2022 play by Sanaz Toossi People and fictional characters * English (surname), a list of people and fictional characters * English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach * English Gardner (born 1992), American track and field sprinter * English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer * Aiden English, a ring name of Matthew Rehwoldt (born 1987), American former professional wrestl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Copenhagen Alumni
A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic monks. The University of Bologna (), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *being a high degree-awarding institute. *using the word (which was coined at its foundation). *having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees (with teaching conducted by both clergy and non-clergy): grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law and notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, , p. 55f.de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Deaths
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1924 Births
Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in China holds its 1st National Congress of the Kuomintang, first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party. * January 21 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961 (Accessed on 14 April 2017) * January 22 – R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Shuttle
Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947) is an English poet and author. She has published fifteen volumes of poetry, plus two selected volumes, and six works of fiction. She has won the Eric Gregory Award and the Cholmondeley Award and has been shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is also known for ''The Wise Wound'', a non-fictional work on menstruation, which she wrote with her late husband Peter Redgrove. Life Born in Staines, Middlesex, Shuttle left school at 17. She has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove (1932–2003) and they have a daughter, Zoe. Shuttle is a founder member of the Falmouth Poetry Group, founded in 1972. She is a Hawthornden Fellow, and a tutor for the Poetry School. Career Shuttle wrote her first novel at the age of 20. She published her debut, the novella, ''An Excusable Vengeance'', in 1967. She has since published five more novellas and novels, as well as an omnibus collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry". The society was founded in London in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, becoming the Poetry Society in 1912. Its first president was Lady Margaret Sackville. From its current premises in Covent Garden, London, The Poetry Society publishes ''The Poetry Review'', a poetry magazine. Established in 1912, its current editor is the poet Wayne Holloway-Smith, who succeeded Emily Berry in 2023. Berry herself succeeded Maurice Riordan in 2017. Fiona Sampson was the magazine's editor from 2005 to 2012. Awards The society organises several competitions, including the British National Poetry Competition, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, The Poetry Society. The Popescu Prize, The Ted Hughes Award for Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Hopkinson
Amanda Hopkinson (born 1948) is a British scholar and literary translator. Biography She was born in London, England, to the British journalist and magazine editor Sir Tom Hopkinson and photographer Gerti Deutsch. She gained a BA from the University of Warwick in 1970. During her academic career, Hopkinson has taught at City University, Manchester University, the University of East Anglia, the University of East London, Westminster University and Cardiff University. As a translator, she is best known for her English versions of contemporary Latin American literature. She has also translated several works by the French crime writer Dominique Manotti. In this work, she frequently collaborates with fellow translators Ros Schwartz and her husband Nick Caistor, with whom she lives in Norwich. Hopkinson is additionally a writer on photography. She has published monographs on Julia Margaret Cameron, Martin Chambi and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and has further written or edited a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salcombe
Salcombe is a resort town in the South Hams district of Devon, south west England. The town is close to the mouth of the Kingsbridge Estuary, mostly built on the steep west side of the estuary. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The town's extensive shore, waterfront and the naturally sheltered harbour formed by the estuary gave rise to its success as a boat building, boat and shipbuilding and sailing port and, in modern times, tourism especially in the form of pleasure boats and yachting. The town is also home to a traditional shellfish fishing industry. The town is part of the electoral ward of Salcombe and Malborough, for which the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census recorded a total population of 3,353. Kingsbridge Estuary (actually a ria or drowned valley) lies between Bolt Head and Sharpitor on the west and Portlemouth Down on the east, and runs inland for some . The estuary was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knud Hjortø
Knut ( Norwegian and Swedish), Knud ( Danish), or Knútur ( Icelandic) is a Scandinavian and German first name, of which the anglicised form is Canute. In Germany both "Knut" and "Knud" are used. In Spanish and Portuguese Canuto is used which comes from the Latin version Canutus, and in Finland, the name Nuutti is based on the name Knut. The name is derived from the Old Norse Knútr meaning "knot". In English the ''K'' is not mute, so the name is not properly pronounced ''nut'' or ''nute''. It is the name of several medieval kings of Denmark, two of whom also reigned over England during the first half of the 11th century. People * Harthaknut I of Denmark (Knut I, Danish: Hardeknud) (b. c. 890), king of Denmark * Knut the Great (Knut II, Danish: Knud den Store or Knud II) (d. 1035), Viking king of England, Denmark and Norway **Subject of the apocryphal King Canute and the waves * Harthaknut (Knut III, Danish: Hardeknud or Knud III) (d. 1042), king of Denmark and England *Saint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Stangerup
Eva Helle Stangerup (30 October 1939 – 29 March 2015) was a Danish crime and thriller novelist. She published her first novel ''Gravskrift for Rødhætte'' in 1967 and followed it with her breakthrough work ''Gule handsker'' a year later. Stangerup's most successful work was ''Christine'' published in 1985 and it became the best-selling novel in Denmark in the 1980s. Her works have been published in other languages such as Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian and Swedish and she was voted the winner of literary prizes such as the De Gyldne Laurbær. Early life Stangerup was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark on 30 October 1939. She was the daughter of the university professor and the actress (). Stangerup was the great-grandchild of the Swedish author Hjalmar Söderberg and her brother was the Danish writer . When she was at school, she was a childhood friend of the future Margrethe II of Denmark. Stangerup was sent to boarding school in Switzerland and the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
