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Orjasaeter, Tore
Norwegian regional poet who worked in the tradition of the ballad and of folk and nature lyrics.Miyazaki
ken (prefecture), southeastern Kyushu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. Most of its area is mountainous, and there is a small coastal plain. The southern coast contains Nichinan-kaigan ...
Thomas, D.M.
English poet and novelist best known for his novel The White Hotel (1981), in which fantasy and psychological insight are mingled.Jolson, Al
popular U.S. singer and blackface comedian of the musical stage and motion pictures, from before World War I to 1940. His unique singing style and personal magnetism established an immediate rapport ...
Lantz, Walter
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Webb, Sidney and Beatrice
Sidney James Webb was born in London into a lower middle-class family; his father was a free-lance accountant and his mother was a shopkeeper. He left school before he was 16, but after attending ...
McEwan, Ian
British novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter whose restrained, refined prose style accentuates the horror of his dark humour and perverse subject matter. |
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