(1824–1895) Works: • Kamelianainen (Finnish) • La dame aux camélias (French) • La Dame aux Camilias (English) • La kolomba premio (Esperanto) • Les Femmes qui tuent et les Femmes qui votent (French) • The Princess of Bagdad (English) •…
(1802–1870) Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie Works: • Acté (French) • Ali Pacha (English) • Amaury (Spanish) • Ange Pitou (Finnish) • Balsamo, the Magician (English) • Bastiljin valloitus (Finnish) • Bragelonnen varakreivi I (Finnish) • Bragelonnen varakreivi II (Finnish)…
(1478–1535) Sir Thomas More Saint Thomas More Works: • Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (English) • Utopia (English) • Utopia (German) Sir Thomas More in Film: A Man for All Seasons 1966 Director: Fred Zinnemann Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller Born February…
(1734–1806) Nicolas-Edme Rétif Works: • L’Anti-Justine; ou, Les Delices de l’amour (French) • Contes de Restif de la Bretonne (French) Restif de la Bretonne in Film: La nuit de Varennes 1982 Director: Ettore Scola Starring: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni Born October 23…
(1725–1798) Giacomo Girolamo Casanova Jacques, Chevalier de Seingalt Works: • The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (English) Filmography as Writer: Il Casanova di Federico Fellini 1976 Director: Federico Fellini Starring: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont Casanova in Film: La nuit de…
(1866–1946) Herbert George Wells Works: • A Modern Utopia (English) • A Short History of the World (English) • Aarnihauta ja muita juttuja (Finnish) • Aikakone (Finnish) • An Englishman Looks at the World (English) • Ann Veronica: A Modern…
(1850–1894) Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson Works: • Aarresaari (Finnish) • A Child’s Garden of Verses (English) • A Christmas Sermon (English) • A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (English) • A Lowden Sabbath Morn (English) •…
(1811–1863) The artist’s works: Self-Portrait c.1844 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters 1864 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Lady Writing s.d. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Works: • A Little Dinner at Timmins’s (English) • Ballads (English) •…
(1917–1993) John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL Filmography as Writer: A Clockwork Orange 1971 Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee Jesus of Nazareth 1977 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey Born February 25 1917 Manchester (England) Died…
(1941) Filmography as Actor: Shirley Valentine 1989 Director: Lewis Gilbert Starring: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti Born November 22 1941 Paisley (Scotland) Occupation Actor Novelist Occupation Theatre Director Writer Awards Laurence Olivier Award Tony