Tag: writer

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

(1809–1892) Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS Works: • Beauties of Tennyson (English) • Becket and other plays (English) • Elaine (French) • Énide (French) • Enoch Arden, &c. (English) • Genièvre (French) • Idylls of the King (English) •…

Garcilaso de la Vega

(1503–1536) García Laso de la Vega Garci Lasso de la Vega Works: • The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega (English) Born 1503 Toledo (España) Died October 14 1536 Nice (France) Occupation Poet Soldier Writer Title Knight of the Order of Santiago

Pío Baroja

(1872–1956) Pío Baroja y Nessi Works: • Cæsar or Nothing (English) • Con la Pluma y con el Sable: Crónica de 1820 a 1823 (Spanish) • El amor, el dandysmo y la intriga (Spanish) • El aprendiz de conspirador (Spanish)…

Ernest Hemingway

(1899–1961) Ernest Miller Hemingway Works: • In our time (English) • Three Stories & Ten Poems (English) Born July 21 1899 Oak Park, IL (USA) Died July 2 1961 Ketchum, ID (USA) Cause of death Suicide Occupation Journalist Novelist Occupation…

James Joyce

(1882–1941) James Augustine Aloysius Joyce Works: • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (English) • Chamber Music (English) • Dubliners (English) • Exiles: A Play in Three Acts (English) • Ulysses (English) Born February 2 1882 Dublin (Ireland)…

René Descartes

(1596–1650) Renatus Cartesius Works: • A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences (English) • Betrachtungen über die Grundlagen der Philosophie (German) • Discours de la méthode (French) •…

Blaise Pascal

(1623–1662) Works: • Notes de Voltaire et de Condorcet sur les pensées de Pascal (French) • Pascal’s Pensées (English) • The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal (English) Born June 19 1623 Clermont-Ferrand (France) Died August 19 1662 Paris (France) Occupation Inventor Mathematician…

Henrik Ibsen

(1828–1906) Henrik Johan Ibsen Works: • A Doll’s House (English) • An Enemy of the People (English) • Baumeister Solneß (German) • Brand Runo 5:ssä näytöksessä (Finnish) • Catilina (Norwegian) • De comedie der liefde; Brand; Peer Gynt (Dutch) •…

Alexander Pushkin

(1799–1837) Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Александр Сергеевич Пушкин Works: • Aatelisrosvo Dubrovskij (Finnish) • Boris Godunov (English) • Eugene Oneguine (English) • Kapteenin tytär (Finnish) • Красавице, которая нюхала табак (Russian) • La fille du capitaine (French) • Laukaus y.m. kertomuksia…

Ivan Turgenev

(1818–1883) Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Иван Сергеевич Тургенев Works: • A Desperate Character and Other Stories (English) • A House of Gentlefolk (English) • A Lear of the Steppes (English) • A Nobleman’s Nest (English) • A Reckless Character and Other…