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Serif (publisher)
Serif is an independent book publishing house based in London, UK, founded in 1992 by Stephen Hayward (1954–2015), who had previously been an editor with Lawrence & Wishart.Michèle Roberts"Obituary: Stephen Hayward (1954-2015)" ''The Bookseller'', 27 November 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2023. The company's list covers the subjects of history, politics, travel, culture and fiction, with book jackets — described as "works of art in themselves"Michael Eaude"Stephen Hayward obituary" ''The Guardian'', 20 November 2015. — designed by Pentagram (design studio), Pentagram Berlin. Alongside original titles, reissues feature prominently in Serif's output, including Evelyn Waugh's 1932 account of his travels in Guiana and Brazil, ''92 Days'' (with an afterword by Pauline Melville), George Dangerfield's ''The Strange Death of Liberal England'', Norman Cohn's ''Warrant for Genocide'', Jorge Semprún's ''The Cattle Truck'', works by J. M. Synge, as well as significant cookery books such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OR Books
OR Books is a New York City-based independent publishing house founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson in 2009. The company sells digital and Print on demand, print-on-demand books directly to the customer and focuses on creative promotion through traditional media and the Internet. On its site, OR Books states that it "embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business." Not long after its founding in 2009, OR Books became known for publishing ''Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare'', a parody of Palin's autobiography ''Going Rogue: An American Life''. ''Going Rouge'' became a The New York Times Best Seller list, best-seller as per ''The New York Times''. Since then, the company has published books by Julian Assange, Moustafa Bayoumi, Medea Benjamin, Patrick Cockburn, Sue Coe, Simon Critchley, Lisa Dierbeck, Ariel Dorfman, Norman Finkelstein, Laura Flanders, Chris Lehmann, Gordon Lish, Bill McKibben, Eileen Myles, Yoko Ono, Barney Rosset, Dougl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Cohn
Norman Rufus Colin Cohn FBA (12 January 1915 – 31 July 2007) was a British academic, historian and writer who spent 14 years as a professorial fellow and as Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex. Life Cohn was born in London, to a German Jewish father and a Catholic mother. He was educated at Gresham's School and Christ Church, Oxford. According to the Italian scholar Lorenzo Ferrari, "Cohn grew up feeling 'a man between all worlds' with his German-Jewish surname, his mother's Catholic faith (although she never had him baptised), and his numerous German relatives". He was a scholar and research student at Christ Church between 1933 and 1939, taking a first-class degree in Modern Languages in 1936 (French) and in 1939 (German). He served for six years in the British Army, being commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment in 1939 and transferring to the Intelligence Corps in 1944, where his knowledge of modern languages found employment. In 1941, he married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Rudé
George Frederick Elliot Rudé (8 February 1910 – 8 January 1993) was a British Marxist historian, specializing in the French Revolution and " history from below", especially the importance of crowds in history.George Rudé (1964). ''The Crowd in History. A Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England, 1730–1848''. New York: Wiley & Sons. Early life Born in Oslo, the son of Jens Essendrop Rude, a Norwegian engineer, and Amy Geraldine Elliot, an English woman educated in Germany, Rudé spent his early years in Norway. After World War I, his family moved to England, where he was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge. A specialist in modern languages, he taught at Stowe and St. Paul's schools. After completing university, Rudé took a trip to the Soviet Union with friends. When he returned he was a "committed Communist and anti-Fascist", despite his family's fairly conservative political views. Career In 1935 Rudé joined the British Communis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico GarcÃa Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús GarcÃa Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. GarcÃa Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism (arts), symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He initially rose to fame with ''Romancero gitano'' (''Gypsy Ballads'', 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. His poetry incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930—documented posthumously in ''Poeta en Nueva York'' (''Poet in New York'', 1942)—he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, ''Blood Wedding'' (1932), ''Yerma'' (1934), and ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' (1936). GarcÃa Lorca was homosexual and suffered from Depression (mood), depression after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chenjerai Hove
Chenjerai Hove (9 February 1956 – 12 July 2015), was a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both English and Shona. "Modernist in their formal construction, but making extensive use of oral conventions, Hove's novels offer an intense examination of the psychic and social costs - to the rural population, especially, of the war of liberation in Zimbabwe." He died on 12 July 2015 while living in exile in Norway, with his death attributed to liver failure. Life The son of a local chief Chenjerai Hove was born in Mazvihwa, near Zvishavane, in what was then Rhodesia. He attended school at Kutama College and Marist Brothers Dete, in the Hwange district of Zimbabwe. After studying in Gweru, he became a teacher and then took degrees at the University of South Africa and the University of Zimbabwe. He also worked as a journalist, and contributed to the anthology ''And Now the Poets Speak''. He published regularly in '' The Zimbabwean'', an opposition newspaper fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah (, ) (born 24 November 1945) is a Somali novelist. His first novel, '' From a Crooked Rib'', was published in 1970 and has been described as "one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today". Farah 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, Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa. Farah has garnered acclaim as one of the greatest contemporary writers in the world, his prose having earned him accolades including the Premio Cavour in Italy, the Kurt Tucholsky Prize in Germany, the Lettre Ulysses Award in Berlin, and in 1998, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In the same year, the French edition of his 1993 novel ''Gifts'' won the St Malo Literature Festival's prize. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Brenan
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, Military Cross, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain. Brenan is probably best known for ''The Spanish Labyrinth'', a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for a mainly autobiographical work ''South from Granada, South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village''. He was appointed Order of the British Empire, CBE in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Diplomatic Service and Overseas List of 1982. Life Brenan was born in Malta into a Gentry, well-off Anglo-Irish family, while his father was serving there in the British Army. He was educated at Radley College, Radley, a boarding school in England, which he hated due to the bullying he endured. His autobiographic works make it clear that he did not enjoy a good relationship with his father, Major Hugh Brenan. At the age of 18, and to spite his father who wanted him to train for an ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitrita Banerji
Chitrita Banerji is a historian of Indian cuisine. She specialises in Bengali cuisine, and is also an author, novelist and translator. Her work explores the relationship between memory, history, culture, religion and food. Biography Banerji was born in 1947, and grew up in Calcutta (now Kolkata). She originates from West Bengal, but spent seven years living in Bangladesh (formerly East Bengal). At the age of 20 she went to Harvard University where she did her master's degree in English. She has lived in the USA since 1990. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, traveling back to India regularly. Banerji has written for a number of publications, including ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...'', ''Gastronomica'', ''Gourmet'' and ''Granta' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett (born 1967 in Bromley, United Kingdom) is an English author of satirical science fiction, fantasy, and slipstream. According to the critic Bill Ectric, "much of Aylett’s work combines the bawdy, action-oriented style of Voltaire with the sedentary, faux cultivated style of Peacock." Stylistically, Aylett is often seen as a difficult writer. As the critic Robert Kiely suggests, his books tend to be "baroque in their density, speed, and finely crafted detail; they are overcrowded, they dazzle and distort and wait for us to catch up with their narrative world." Although Aylett is best known for his novels, and for his transmedial metafiction ''Lint'', he has also created comics, stand-up, performance, music, movies, and art, often working in appropriative and other avant-garde modes. Aylett is also one of the few UK authors associated with the largely US-based Bizarro literary movement. Writing Beerlight Aylett's Beerlight series includes the novels ''The Crime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cuisine En Dix Minutes
''La cuisine en dix minutes, ou l'Adaptation au rhythme moderne'' (English title: ''French Cooking in Ten Minutes, or, Adapting to the Rhythm of Modern Life'', also ''Cooking in Ten Minutes, or, Adapting to the Rhythm of Modern Life'') by Édouard de Pomiane, published in 1930, was an early and influential title on the subject of convenience cooking. It attempted to render many of the basic techniques of classic French cooking into a quick form for people who did not have time to cook. Compared to modern convenience cookbooks, almost everything is from scratch, though a good number of recipes call for canned vegetables (a modern cook might use frozen vegetables instead) as well as commercially available charcuterie products such as sausages and pâté. De Pomiane also adopts a rather tongue-in-cheek approach to writing and admonishes the reader to limit complexity and plan carefully. The book has been translated into several languages. The first German translation appeared in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard De Pomiane
Édouard de Pomiane was the pen-name of Édouard Alexandre Pozerski (20 April 1875 – 26 January 1964), a French scientist, radio broadcaster and food writer. He pursued his academic career under his real name, but was known to the public under his pseudonym for his books and broadcasts about food. Born in Paris to Polish exiles, Pozerski was educated in his native city and became an academic scientist, specialising in biology and medicine and particularly food chemistry and dietetics. As a hobby, which turned into a parallel career, he wrote for and lectured to a wide, non-academic audience under the Pomiane pseudonym, explaining the science behind cooking techniques and propounding the virtues of simpler cooking than that of classic French haute cuisine. His admirers have included the food writers Elizabeth David and Richard Olney and the chef Raymond Blanc. Pomiane is credited with inspiring the generation of French chefs who introduced nouvelle cuisine in the 1960s, a si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenfiddich Food And Drink Awards
The Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards were intended to recognize achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting on the subjects of food and drink. The awards had been sponsored since 1972 by William Grant & Sons, a family-owned Scottish distiller that produces Glenfiddich, a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky Whisky or whiskey is a type of liquor made from Fermentation in food processing, fermented grain mashing, mash. Various grains (which may be Malting, malted) are used for different varieties, including barley, Maize, corn, rye, and wheat. Whisky .... In total 12 awards were made annually. In 2008, Glenfiddich discontinued the Food and Drink Awards, reviewing their "strategy, scope and potential application in some of Glenfiddich’s key markets outside the UK". See also * Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards External linksGlenfiddich website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
