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A writer, television presenter, organizer and activist from Bangladesh.Sayeed was a professor of Ben

A writer, television presenter, organizer and activist from Bangladesh.Sayeed was a professor of Bengali language in Dhaka College for many years.In mid 70's he started presenting Shaptabarna, a multidimensional TV programme in Bangladesh Television, which attained popularity specially among the young viewers. In 1975, he founded the Bishwa Sahitya Kendra or World Literature Centre to promote the study of literature. It remains one of the most important cultural institutions in the nation.

An Kashmiri poet, translator and critic. He was awarded the Indian Sahitya Akademi Award in 1961 for

An Kashmiri poet, translator and critic. He was awarded the Indian Sahitya Akademi Award in 1961 for his poetry collection Nawroz-i-Saba, the Padma Shri in 2000, and India's highest literary award, the Jnanpith Award (for the year 2004) in 2007. He is the first Kashmiri writer to be awarded the Jnanpith, India's highest literary award.Rehman Rahi began his career as a clerk in the Public Works Department of the Government for a brief period in 1948 and was associated with the Progressive Writers' Association, of which he became the General Secretary. He also edited a few issues of Kwang Posh, the literary journal of the Progressive Writer's Association. He was later a sub-editor in the Urdu daily Khidmat. He did an M.A. in Persian (1952) and in English (1962) from Jammu and Kashmir University where he taught Persian. He was on the editorial board of the Urdu daily Aajkal in Delhi from 1953 to 1955.[1]

Was a Bengali writer.Choudhury was born on 1 March 1929, in Habiganj District, Bangladesh (then part

Was a Bengali writer.Choudhury was born on 1 March 1929, in Habiganj District, Bangladesh (then part of Assam) where his father Azhar Choudhury, a land owner, and his mother Nazmun Nesa Choudhury, a house wife resided.In his contributions to Bengali literature, the writer and philosopher Choudhury depicted a transparent portrait of modern Bangladeshi’s life in abroad. He was a scholar of science, with great intellectual abilities and eloquent of both pen and speech. He had a remarkable openness to modern Western knowledge as well as Eastern knowledge. Choudhury made a lasting contribution to Bengali literature with his novels, travelogue, essays and his introspective autobiographical and epistolary works.

A Kannada daily that publishes from Mangalore and Bangalore.During his career as journalist, he tran

A Kannada daily that publishes from Mangalore and Bangalore.During his career as journalist, he translated many Urdu books into the Kannada language. He was one of the members of the Qur'an translating committee that translated the Qur'an into Kannada - Qur'an Vyakhyana. He has authored a few books in Kannada and English. His most famous English work, Towards Performing Da'wah was published from IIT London.

Was a contemporary Japanese author. He was born in Hiroshima, where his father, a naval officer, was

Was a contemporary Japanese author. He was born in Hiroshima, where his father, a naval officer, was stationed, but spend the majority of his childhood in the seaside town of Kugenuma. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in French literature and worked for a broadcasting company until 1971, when he became a full time writer. His literary career began in 1962 with the publication of The Children's Room, (Kodomobeya), an emotional account of growing up with a mentally retarded older brother. Almost all of his stories are autobiographical and based on events from his own life and the lives of his family. His short story, Peaches, published in 1972, has appeared in several anthologies of short stories. Peaches is a beautiful, mystical tale that finds the author questioning the most fundamental source of his art——his memory.

Was a German/American composer, who is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away! Abraham Holzmann

Was a German/American composer, who is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away! Abraham Holzmann was born in New York City. His parents were Jacob Holzmann, a Hungarian (some sources say German) immigrant and Isabella Holzmann, a native of Louisiana.[1] The young Holzmann learned music in Germany.[2] A review originally published by the New York Herald on Sunday, 13t January 1901 entitled German Composer who Writes American Cakewalk Music describes "[h]is knowledge of bass and counterpoint is thorough, and his standard compositions bear the stamp of harmonic lore, which makes his proclivity for the writing of the popular style of music the more remarkable."[3]

Was a French organist and composer. He studied organ with Charles Widor and Alexandre Guilmant and c

Was a French organist and composer. He studied organ with Charles Widor and Alexandre Guilmant and composition with Jules Massenet. For twenty five years from around 1900 he was organist at the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, in Paris. In 1923 he went to the United States of America, to teach organ at the Eastman School of Music. He returned to France in 1935, to teach organ at the École César Franck and at the Institut Grégorien in Paris.

Was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie Française. He r

Was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie Française. He received a degree from the École Normale Supérieure in 1880, and published his first volume of verse in 1883, The Contempt. After several youthful novels, he moved to ironic analysis of the popular mores of the Belle Époque and achieved popular success. His first semi-autobiographical novel, Monsieur Rabosson of 1884,

Was a Dutch Jewish lawyer, writer and poet. He wrote many plays and novels, focused mainly on Biblic

Was a Dutch Jewish lawyer, writer and poet. He wrote many plays and novels, focused mainly on Biblical characters. His works include Tweestromenland, Kroniek der Jodenvervolging, and Om een lepel soep. Herzberg was a prisoner in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from January 11, 1944 to April 10, 1945.

Is an Argentine writer, born in the city of San Pedro, Buenos Aires. He practised amateur boxing in

Is an Argentine writer, born in the city of San Pedro, Buenos Aires. He practised amateur boxing in his youth. He also directed the literary magazines El Escarabajo de Oro and El Ornitorrinco.

Was a Puerto Rican author who reached great fame throughout Latin America during the 1940s. Some say

Was a Puerto Rican author who reached great fame throughout Latin America during the 1940s. Some say his actual year of birth was 1919, but officially it was always announced as 1916. His book Campo Alegre is a text that has been studied at schools in Austria, Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand as well as all over the Americas.

An Indian novelist writing in English. Dawesar is a Harvard graduate and lives in New York City.

An Indian novelist writing in English. Dawesar is a Harvard graduate and lives in New York City.

An Indian Social activist, is a multi-talented person of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is an actor

An Indian Social activist, is a multi-talented person of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is an actor, painter, quizzer, writer and promising Ghazal singer. He performs Bengali Modern Song and Rabindra Sangeet also. He has done many stage shows individually.

Was a Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet.Nicol left academia in 1969 to b

Was a Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet.Nicol left academia in 1969 to become the Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, which he served as until 1971. In that year, Nicol became the High Commisoner to the United Kingdom, which ended in 1972. In 1972, Nicol became the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations under Austrian Kurt Waldheim, which he served as until 1982. While serving as Under-Secretary General, Nicol also served as head of UNITAR.

Is an Iranian writer and translator.Najafi began his literary activities in 1960s and translated sev

Is an Iranian writer and translator.Najafi began his literary activities in 1960s and translated several books. He co-published a successful literary periodical entitled Jong-e Isfahan. After revolution he published a controversial book on Persian usage entitled Let's Avoid Mistakes.

Was an Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician.Son of Molla Hadi Vakil Qazvini, he composed many poems

Was an Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician.Son of Molla Hadi Vakil Qazvini, he composed many poems about Iran and was called a national poet. Along with his powerful poetry, he also wrote lyrics for numerous songs and played music. He was a revolutionary

Was a German cantor, musician, and composer. His father destined him for the rabbinate; but his love

Was a German cantor, musician, and composer. His father destined him for the rabbinate; but his love for music and the song of the synagogue caused him to choose to become a Cantor (Hazzan). At an early age he emigrated to Germany, and there under the tutelage of eminent ?azanim prepared himself for his sacred calling. He officiated for a time at Pakosh and Schwetz in West Prussia, and at twenty-three (1857) was called to Gothenburg. Well equipped with Hebrew and Talmudic learning, he applied himself to the acquisition of secular knowledge and the science and art of music.

Was a Russian-American novelist and labor leader. He was born in Podberezhye, Lithuania, into a Jewi

Was a Russian-American novelist and labor leader. He was born in Podberezhye, Lithuania, into a Jewish Orthodox family. His grandfather was a rabbi and preacher in Vidz, Vitebsk; and his father was a teacher of Hebrew and Talmud. The family, which was dev

Was a Dutch physician and Calvinist writer. A Jewish convert to Christianity from 1822 onwards, he w

Was a Dutch physician and Calvinist writer. A Jewish convert to Christianity from 1822 onwards, he was part of the Dutch Réveil circle that also included da Costa and Willem de Clercq.During his time at Leiden, where he stayed with his uncle, the well-known physician Immanuel Capadoce, Capadose came more and more under the influence of the well-known speaker - and conservative in the arts - Willem Bilderdijk. Thus the young Capadose - together with men such as Isaac da Costa and the brothers Willem and Dirk van Hogendorp - heard the history course that Bilderdijk gave as private instruction.

English poet, was born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets o

English poet, was born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the seventeenth century with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721.

Was a prominent Polish-Jewish Nazi collaborator in Warsaw Ghetto during Second World War and a "king

Was a prominent Polish-Jewish Nazi collaborator in Warsaw Ghetto during Second World War and a "kingpin" of the ghetto underwold.[1]After the German invasion of Poland, he surfaced in Warsaw as a refugee from Lódz and as a person with connections to Sicherheitsdienst (SD)[7] and became a Nazi collaborator. In December 1940 he founded the Group 13 network, a Jewish Nazi collaborationist organization in Warsaw Ghetto, described by some as the "Jewish Gestapo".[5][7][8]

Was a composer chiefly of church music but also of a few operas, and a teacher who took over the Eco

Was a composer chiefly of church music but also of a few operas, and a teacher who took over the Ecole Choron, duly renamed École Niedermeyer, a school for the study and practice of church music, where several eminent French musicians studied including Gabriel Fauré and André Messager.

Was a Filipino student journalist who gained prominence as an early and visible critic of the martia

Was a Filipino student journalist who gained prominence as an early and visible critic of the martial law government of President Ferdinand Marcos. As editor-in-chief of the Philippine Collegian, Sarmiento melded the University of the Philippines student newspaper into an independent though solitary voice against martial law rule at a time when the mass media was under the control of the Marcos government. His subsequent seven-month imprisonment by the military impaired his health and contributed to his premature death.

Was a Filipino student journalist who gained prominence as an early and visible critic of the martia

Was a Filipino student journalist who gained prominence as an early and visible critic of the martial law government of President Ferdinand Marcos. As editor-in-chief of the Philippine Collegian, Sarmiento melded the University of the Philippines student newspaper into an independent though solitary voice against martial law rule at a time when the mass media was under the control of the Marcos government

Was a Hebrew poet, author, children's author, translator, and editor.Regelson emigrated with his fam

Was a Hebrew poet, author, children's author, translator, and editor.Regelson emigrated with his family to the United States when he was nine years old. He studied at a heder and public schools. He never finished formal studies, but was an autodidact who