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Was a Kazakh writer, political activist, and environmental scientist. He is famous for advocating th

Was a Kazakh writer, political activist, and environmental scientist. He is famous for advocating the idea that Kazakhs should learn Russian culture and simultaneously preserve Kazakh customs and law.

Was a Kazakh writer, political activist and environmental scientist. He is famous for advocating the

Was a Kazakh writer, political activist and environmental scientist. He is famous for advocating the idea that Kazakhs should learn Russian culture and simultaneously preserve Kazakh customs and law.

Was a prominent Persian archeologist, Iranologist and a world expert on Achaemenid archeology.Alirez

Was a prominent Persian archeologist, Iranologist and a world expert on Achaemenid archeology.Alireza Shapour Shahbazi was a lecturer in Achaemenid archeology and Iranology at Harvard University. He was also a full professor of Archeology at Shiraz University and founded Achaemenid research Foundation in 1973.

A contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist.Croggon has also writte

A contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist.Croggon has also written libretti for Michael Smetanin's operas Gauguin and The Burrow which premiered respectively at the 2000, Melbourne Festival and Perth Festival, produced by ChamberMade[2] Other poems by her have been set to music by Smetanin, Christine McCombe, Margaret Legge-Wilkinson and Andreé Greenwell. Her plays have been produced by the Melbourne Festival, The Red Shed Company (Adelaide) and ABC Radio.

Was a British born American journalist and broadcaster.Born in Salford, in Lancashire, England, to a

Was a British born American journalist and broadcaster.Born in Salford, in Lancashire, England, to a Methodist father and an Irish mother, as Alfred Cooke, he legally added the name "Alistair" at age 22. He was educated at Blackpool Grammar School and was awarded a scholarship to study at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he gained an honours degree (2:1) in English. He was heavily involved in the arts of the college, becoming the editor of The Granta, the student magazine, and setting up the Mummers, the first co-sex theatre group, from which he notably rejected a young James Mason, telling him to stick to architecture.

Was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which

Was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare. He also used the pseudonym Ian Stuart.

An Iraqi father and Syrian mother who both came from Tikrit and Alia grew up in the capital Baghdad.

An Iraqi father and Syrian mother who both came from Tikrit and Alia grew up in the capital Baghdad. She is an Iraqi novelist, author and journalist living in exile in Paris, France. She holds an Naguib Mahfouz Award in Arabic Literature.[1] She is most n

Is a Cypriot composer and singer born in Nicosia on 19 September 1969. His artistic family, with a p

Is a Cypriot composer and singer born in Nicosia on 19 September 1969. His artistic family, with a painter father and poet brother was a source of inspiration for him.

Is a poet and professor of Arabic language in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akh

Is a poet and professor of Arabic language in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.[1] Previously he taught at the School of Arts and Humanities in Meknès. He also taught at the Centers for Teacher Training at Errachidia, Rabat, and Meknès. He earned his Doctorat d’état at the School of Arts and Humanities in Meknès, and his D.E.S and D.E.A in the School of Arts and Humanities in Rabat.

An Australian writer. He was born in Scotland, but moved with his family to Australia when he was se

An Australian writer. He was born in Scotland, but moved with his family to Australia when he was seven. He began work as a journalist working on papers such as the Melbourne Sun, Telegraph and the Australian Women's Weekly having studied journalism at Melbourne University. Turning to literature his books include Adrift, Little Brother and The China Coin. Writing predominantly children's literature he has recently authored his first adult novel. He lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two children.

Is an American historical novelist and naturalist.Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in

Is an American historical novelist and naturalist.Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in the Chicago, Illinois area, but has been a long-time resident of Bellefontaine, Ohio, near where he attended university. As a young man, he hitch-hiked around the United States, living off the land and learning about wildlife. He began writing about nature and American history at the age of thirteen, eventually becoming an author of numerous distinguished books for children and adults. Seven of his books have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. One of his novels tells how the Great Auk went extinct.

Was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher. His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist

Was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher. His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, which was edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914.He shot himself in November 1926, reportedly after hearing of George Bernard Sh

Is a South African writer, journalist and political commentator. He was the editor of The Rand Daily

Is a South African writer, journalist and political commentator. He was the editor of The Rand Daily Mail when it broke Muldergate, the story of how the apartheid government secretly funded information projects.Sparks later wrote a number of critically-acclaimed books on South Africa's transition from apartheid, including Tomorrow is Another Country (1996), The Mind of South Africa (1991), and more recently Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa (University of Chicago Press 2006). Sparks founded the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in South Africa and was its executive director from 1992 to 1997.

Was a Portuguese Romanticist poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and Liberal politician and a fre

Was a Portuguese Romanticist poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and Liberal politician and a freemason.João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett was born João Leitão da Silva in Porto as the son of António Bernardo da Silva Garrett (1740-1834),

Was an Estonian composer most known for his patriotic melodies, several of which became a staple of

Was an Estonian composer most known for his patriotic melodies, several of which became a staple of the Singing Revolution.

Was a Czech composer, musical theorist and teacher. He is primarily known for his microtonal composi

Was a Czech composer, musical theorist and teacher. He is primarily known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones.

Was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a secondary-school teacher u

Was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a secondary-school teacher until his retirement in 1909. He wrote a series of historical novels imbued with faith in his nation and in progress toward freedom and justice.

Was a Czech explorer, orientalist and writer.His unhealthy lifestyle caused him a serious lung disea

Was a Czech explorer, orientalist and writer.His unhealthy lifestyle caused him a serious lung disease. Musil took up bible study in a newly opened religious institute in Jerusalem but left in disappointment after 14 months. He travelled to Beirut and other places in the Arab world. Musil kept on coming back to the Arab world until 1917 and collected a huge body of scientific material.

Was a Czech composer and musical pedagogue.During 1867–1970 Provazník was a singer at the Church

Was a Czech composer and musical pedagogue.During 1867–1970 Provazník was a singer at the Church of St. Margaret in the Brevnov Monastery, obtaining a basic musical and literary education there (his teacher was a well known composer Bolard) Later, Provazník studied organ music at a music school in Prague. From 1882 he served as the director of organ choir in Blatná, from 1886 at the same position in Rychnov nad Knežnou.[1] For twenty years he taught singing at the gymnasium in Rychnov nad Knežnou and until 1926 he led the local singing club "Dalibor".[1] His son, Anatol Provazník, was an organist and a composer.

Was a Polish writer.Felinski was a representative of the classicism typical of the time after Stanis

Was a Polish writer.Felinski was a representative of the classicism typical of the time after Stanislaw Poniatowski’s reign. One of his major works was the tragedy Barbara Radziwillówna (1817), regarded as a masterpiece of classicist poetics; he translated Dellile’s poem entitled The Landlord or the French Landowners. He often spoke about Polish orthography, entering into a polemic on the subject with Jan Sniadecki, who advocated traditional spelling.

Is an Polish-born Israeli children books author and illustrator. She was born in Poland and hid thro

Is an Polish-born Israeli children books author and illustrator. She was born in Poland and hid throughout the Holocaust, in 1949 she moved to Israel.

Was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.

Was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.

Was a French printer, bibliographer, and author; born in Paris, 1809, died at Neuilly-sur-Seine, 188

Was a French printer, bibliographer, and author; born in Paris, 1809, died at Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1889. He first worked as a practical printer, then wrote for various typographical and bibliographical reviews, and subsequently was appointed secretary and proof-reader to the Count de Clarac, keeper of the Museum of Antiquities in the Louvre. Alkan was a prolific writer and the author of many books, pamphlets, and articles, which deal with the art and history of printing and illustrating as well as with bibliography

Was a French writer, historian, critic, and journalist. Disfigured by syphilis and addicted to opium

Was a French writer, historian, critic, and journalist. Disfigured by syphilis and addicted to opium in an effort to make his life bearable, Rabbe is today remembered for his Album d’un pessimiste in which he writes of the pointlessness of existence. It was published posthumously in 1835. He is also thought to have penned a novel,

Was a French writer and journalist born in Montreuil-Bellay, a small meadows commune of Angers. Utop

Was a French writer and journalist born in Montreuil-Bellay, a small meadows commune of Angers. Utopian socialist and a disciple of Charles Fourier, he was anglophobic and anti-semitic. He was at one time editor-in-chief of the newspaper La Paix, and his studies of natural history served as a vehicle for his political ideas.