The Academy of American Poets has commented more broadly on Cohen's overall career in the arts, including his work as a poet, novelist, and songwriter, stating that "[Cohen's] successful blending of poetry, fiction, and music is made most clear in Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, published in 1993, which gathered more than 200 of Cohen's poems … several novel excerpts, and almost 60 song lyrics … While it may seem to some that Leonard Cohen departed from the literary in pursuit of the musical, his fans continue to embrace him as a Renaissance man who straddles the elusive artistic borderlines."
His magazine work has been nominated twice for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. He is known for his bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction. His novel Ghost Soldiers was the basis for the 2005 Miramax film The Great Raid. The book also won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble. The story Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II Most Dramatic Mission is based in the Philippines during the 1940's.
F.Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, published in the early nineteenth century, became an immediate success with professional writers and the curious underground of serious readers in America, at the time. Over the eighty-seven years since Fitzgerald, first released the novel to the public, it has received a staggering critical reception from readers all around the world. The book itself, centralises the ideas of, post war, of hedonism, materialism, alienation and morality, viewed and experienced through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Carraway a young man from Minnesota. In addition to its great success over time, the text has also had a major impact in the field of literature and is viewed as a great. Born September 24th, 1896, Francis
After graduation Chinua Achebe worked for the Nigerian broadcasting and moved to the metropolis of Lagos where he continued to write. Achebe is a Nigerian writer whose role as a socially committed storyteller is drawn from his ethnic Igbo traditions. He has written a number of novels, short stories, poems, essays, and articles, gaining worldwide critical acclaim and popular success. His first novel Things Fall Apart, first published in 1958, was a big best seller selling millions of copies and has been translated into numerous languages. Chinua Achebe remains the most read African author in the world.
In "1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English novels of 20th century." (Modern Library Editorial Board) In 2003 Robert McCrum writing for theguardian listed Brave New World number 53 in “the top 100 greatest novels of all time” and the novel was also listed “number 87 on The Big Read” Another staple in American Literature is a novel called 1984 by George Orwell that went through similar experiences as Brave New World. Both 1984 and Brave New Word shared a common theme: a dystopia society. Like Brave New World this book was also highly criticized when it was first released, but gained popularity in a similar fashion; both had to just wait for the world to catch up with what the book portrayed. Although the book first got negative reviews, it has became a staple in American literature and is now being given to as young as high school students to read.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude By Gabriel García Márquez Annotated Bibliography Table of Contents Introduction 3 Plot Summary 3 Marquez & Latin American Politics 4 Spanish Conquest 5 Struggle for Political Control 5 American Foreign Policy 6 conclusion 7 Bibliography 8 Introduction Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel of repeating fated destiny based around the creation and destruction of the Buendia family and the town of Macondo. This story is one of reality and fantasy entangled and therefore is a model example of Latin American “magic realism.” Latin-American life is particularly rich with the experiences that create Magical Realism: the reality of political oppression and proud familial obligations easily complement the magic of strong beliefs in the divine and supernatural (Finstad, 2002). Marquez has won many awards around the world for his book and it became an instant classic in literature. In 1970, the book was published in English and was chosen as one of the best twelve books of the year by Time (Lee, 2002). Plot Summary The story begins when Jose Arcadio Buendia and his wife Ursula found the mythical town of Macondo.
Awards: Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literatur (1982) for his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Marquez was awarded with international prizes including the Neustadt International Prize, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Italian Premio Chianciano, the American Neustadt Prize, and Venezuelan Romulo Gallegos Prize. List of works Novels: In Evil Hour (1962) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) The General in His Labyrinth (1989) Of Love and Other Demons (1994) Novellas: Leaf Storm (1955) No One Writes to the Colonel (1961) Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004) Short story collections: Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947) Big Mama's Funeral (1962) One of These Days (1962) The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother (1978) Collected Stories (1984) Strange Pilgrims (1993) Non-fiction: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1970) The Solitude of Latin America (1982) The Fragrance of Guava (1982, with Plinio Apuleyo
As one of the greatest American authors ever, "He wins our assent, perhaps now more than ever. His emotions were prophetic, his antennae were out to the truth"(Bloom 201). These words, nonetheless, describe the great Ernest Hemingway. Born in 1899, Hemingway covered nearly every war by way of journalism, as well as fighting, until his passing in 1961. With this journalism came his signature journalistic style of writing to express feeling and emotions, such as in one of his well known short stories "Indian Camp".
(270). Most of Latin America had gained independence by tend first quarter of the nineteenth century. The protracted struggle elevated to power small, privileged elite who, with few exceptions, enjoyed many benefits from the Spanish and the Portuguese colonial systems and reaped even great rewards during the early decades of nationhood. The authors Burns & Charlip pointed out in their book Latin America, an Interpretive History that: “the independence of the new nations proved almost the nominal because the ruling elites became economically subservient to Great Britain. The impetus to bulk a nation-state came from above.
Many of his novels address the post-colonial social and political issues that Nigeria still faces. Achebe was considered the father of modern African literature. He was also an essayist and English literature professor at Bard College located in New York as well as the University of Nigeria. For over a decade, Achebe worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Company. He founded a publishing company in 1971 and a bilingual magazine called Uwa ndi Igbo in 1984.