The semester has come to an end and I know you are busy with your final projects. I am waiving the quiz for this week, and I'd like you to pick a contemporary British author and comment on him/her. Make sure that nobody else picks the same writer.
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Hey, I chose Nadeem Aslam
ReplyDeleteHi Brenda... tell the class what you liked about Nadeem.
ReplyDeleteWhat I liked about Nadeen Aslam is that He write about issues in which are inroled cultural, religious and political onflicts,and actually those conflicts are the center of his first novel "season Of the Rainbirds". also what I like about him is that He take a lot of time to write his novels, for example in his second novel "Maps for lost lovers" he took over a decade to complete, which it means that he take lot of time to write detaily.
ReplyDeleteHowever I liked that he made what is not expected of an oriental immigrant. He moved to UK when he was 14, long after He studied Biochemistry at the University of Manchester, but left to become a writer, actually one the best writer, and currently winner of many Literature awards in the UK.
ReplyDeleteI choose Doris Lessing
ReplyDeleteHey people I´m going to talk about James Robertson
ReplyDeletehello...i choose P. D. James
ReplyDeleteWhat a like about Doris is that her works are about social issues that goes from racism, feminism, taboos and so on and what most call my attention is that some books are autobiographical.
ReplyDeleteBesides that, that really like me about she is that her works challenge the society or ideals of different people and countries and as a consequence her works had been banned in different places but her attitude to face and overpass those troubles is simply admirable.
ReplyDeleteThe golden notebook is a great book in which Doris writes about the cold war and how the women had to struggled with sex, love, politics and so on.Doris won in 2007 the literature Nobel prize for the golden notebook
ReplyDeleteHello everyone! I'm going to talk about J.K. Rowling
ReplyDeleteJ.K. Rowling.
ReplyDeleteA british author best known as the creator of Harry Potter's series. What I like the most, and truely makes me feel impressed is her monumental fantasy when she starts writing a book. It's extraordinary what she has done with the Potter's book, especially becuase these have gained a lot worldwide attention. Her critics have clearly pointed out this aspect urgumenting that most of the elements that she includes have been taken from the imaginary world of her own children.
Another important things is that, since the genre in which she feels confortable writing is children, she has been awared on her services in literarure for them. Besides that, she is very generous helping and supporting causes in order to protect children around the world.
sorry Paty! I arleady post about her!
ReplyDeleteOk gelmis, No problem!! I'm going to pick another one.
ReplyDeleteI pick Margaret Drabble. She is a novelists, a critic and a biographer. She was born in 1939. Some of her novels include information about woman's freedom and independence. She comes from a family of writers won a scholarship to study in Newnham College, Cambridge. With Her novel The Millstone, she won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize.Some other prizes that she has received are, the CBE in 1980 and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973. The characters in her books are similar to normal British people because she gives that special personality to all of them. She's now working with different institutions related to literature. Her latest novel, The Seven Sisters was written in 2002.
ReplyDeleteI am going to talk little about Phyllis Dorothy James better known as P. D. James. is a British writer of detective novels who was born in Oxford on August 3, 1920. She was considered one of the great ladies of the crime, she published her first book 'cover its face' in 1963, and because of her works, she received a recognition in 1991 for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), in which she works as principal. Her most famous creation is the detective and poet Adam Dalgliesh, starring in several of her books. P.D. James also recreates to perfection urban environments and the state machinery, especially that related to criminal investigation, as it was thirty years working for the British Civil Service.
ReplyDeleteSome of her works are: criminal Impulse (1963), unnatural deaths (1967) Shroud for a Nightingale (1971), Death of a coroner (1977) and Intrigue and desires (1990).
Esther Freud is a British novelist. There are many things that I like about her. One of these is her upward career trajectory. To begin with, she trained as an actress at the drama centre. She is also the writer of various productions for stage and television. Furthermore, she is a co-founder of the women's theatre company 'Norfolk Broads'. In 1993, Esther was named as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists 2' by Granta magazine. However, what I like the most about her is the way she writes her novels. It seems that all her novels are based on real stories. What I believe is that she places the novels in the right place and date according to the events that were happening in those places where she wrote her novels. Maybe, the key about her writing is because she studied drama. Among her works includes:
ReplyDeleteHideous Kinky (1991)
Peerless Flats (1993)
Gaglow (1997)
The Wild (2000)
The Sea House (2003)
Love Falls (2007)
Her first novel, "Hideous Kinky" was made into a film in 1998. In this novel she talks about the childhood of two children (Esther and her elder sister) accompanying their mother in her search for freedom and adventure in 1960s Morocco.
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ReplyDeleteIan Whybrow
ReplyDeleteIan Whybrow was born in Gillingham; however, he grew up in Honk Kong. He has written hundreds of books for children, that´s why he is considered the children´s author. His books have been translated into many languages and some of his stories have been broadcasted on radio. In the last two decades, he has won many awards and prizes. The last one was in 2005, he won an award for having written the best book of the year, it was titled “The Noisy Way to Bed”. Nowadays, Ian is a full-time writer.
Paul Muldoon….
ReplyDeletePaul Muldoon was born in Portadown, County Armagh in 1951. I got interested in this writer because he was taught by the great Seamus Heaney (winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1995) at Queen's University, Belfast.
Muldoon published his first work in 1973 while he was in the University (he was only 22 years old)and he was congratulated personally by his mentor (Heaney)who considered to him as the new generation of modern writers.
According to him, his best work is actually the first one which is called "New weather." I
Another point that called my attention about him is the fact that Muldoon has worked in some of the most important universities like Oxford and Princetown as a professor of poetry. Who wouldn't like to work in those universities?
He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War." (http://www.paulmuldoon.net/biography.php4)
Muldoon has won several prizes like the T.S. Elliot, the pullitzer, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters prize,the Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, and the Irish Times.
He is considered in the same level and category of Seamus Heaney (for me, that is one of the best honor that he can hear because as I mentioned before, Seamus is his mentor)
Finally, Muldoon nowadays lives with his wife Jean Hanff Korelitz, which is a novelist, in The United States and he works as editor of poetry for "New Yorker" magazine.
I will make my comments on Sujata Bhatt
ReplyDeleteMy favorite author is Clive Staples Lewis. He is an Irish born british author who is more commonly known as C. S. Lewis. He is widely known for writing The Chronicles of Narnia series. He was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings, and together they founded a informal Oxford literary groups called "inklings". What I like about him is the passion he portrays in his books. I think it is a result of the many things he experienced in his life, such as serving in the British Army during WWI
ReplyDeleteJames Robertson was born in 1958 in Scotland, he has written some novels like: close, the fanatic, Joseph Knight and won the Saltire Society Book of the Year in 2003 and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award. His last novel is And The Land Lay Still.
ReplyDeleteI want to talk about Michael scott. He was born in Irish and he is considered as one of the most succesful writers in Ireland. He has writen one hundred titles of a vast number of genres including Fantasy,horror, Science Fiction and Folklore.He is also considered one of the authorities on the folklore of the Celtic lands, a feature he develops in most of his books. Especially in his last publictaions, where he mixed fantasy and folklore in the story of The Alchemyst However, getting his books is hard work since they are barely known in countries like El Salvador.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to check the plot of the alchemyst, I recomend this book a lot, very educative in the celtic folklore and it has an atractive story.
http://www.dillonscott.com/young-adult-books/the-alchemyst.htm
" He has written for the stage and screen and also created and scripted documentaries and drama for television."
"he Irish Times recently called him, "The King of Fantasy in these Isles."
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ReplyDeleteI will talk about Candia McWillian.
ReplyDeleteCandia Mc William is a Scottish writer who born in Edinburg in 1955. She studied in Cambridge University between 1973 and 1976. She is a fiction writer, she uses an elegant and mysterious language, adding to that a little bit of humor to the stories in her works.
ReplyDeleteHer works include.
Three novels:
A case of knives (1988)
A little stranger (1989)
Debatable land (1994)
Short story:
Wait till I tell you (1997)
A case of knives is her first and most famous novel. It is divided into four parts; all the parts are told by a different character and in a different style. In the story no one of the characters is what he or she appears. The novel is a study of how people experiment with human flex. The “vegan carnivore” is the character in charge of the horror in the novel; she is the one who makes suffer the other characters while she enjoys the massacre.
ReplyDeleteSalman Rushday
ReplyDeleteHe is British Indian novelist and essayist. What called my attention about him was that he was condemned to death by leading Iranian Muslim clerics in 1989 for allegedly having blasphemed Islam in his novel The Satanic Verses. He first achieved fame with his second novel
He is also the writer of Midnight’s Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Midnight’s Children won a public vote to be named the Best of the Booker, the best novel to win the Booker Prize in the award’s 40-year history” in June 2007
His most recent work is The Enchantress of Florence, published in June 2008. In July 2008
I chose this writer because he has even put his life in danger for publishing controversial topics like Pakistan political problems.
ReplyDeleteI choose bejnamin zephaniah because I liked the fact that he is a jamaican poet, he moved to london really young at only 14 years old and he published his first poem in 1980, he is a really prepared man because he holds a honorary doctorate in arts and humanities, he is also a doctor in letters, in 1985 he published the dread affair which attacks the britidh legal system, he also published poetry for childrens one of those was funky chickens (1996) he also has published music recording in which we can mention belly of the beast (1996) he also has appeared in plays like dread poets society, his last award was an honorary doctorate by london southbank university. (samuel)
ReplyDeleteWell i'm going to talk about Julia Golding who is a children books writer. She was born in 1969 and grew up near Epping Forest. Now she lives in Oxford and is full-time writer.
ReplyDeleteAmong her works are Her first book, The Diamond of Drury Lane (2006),Cat Among the Pigeons (2006); Den of Thieves (2007); Cat o Nine Tails (2007): and Black Heart of Jamaica (2008). The sixth book in the series, Cat's Cradle, is due to be published in 2009 among others. The prices that she had won are:The Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, and the Nestlé Children's Book Prize in 2006.
She call my attention because she is one of the few writers that her works are for children that for me it the audience more difficult for write because it requires a lot of imagination.
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