Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter B

Is a German conductor and composer. Between 2000 and 2001, Boris Böhmann was chairman of the Associ

Is a German conductor and composer. Between 2000 and 2001, Boris Böhmann was chairman of the Association of Church Musicians in the bishopric of Münster. Since 1996, he has been a member of the national committee of the German choir association "Pueri Cantores" and since 1999 also held a position as a member of the presidency committee.

Is Croatian writer and journalist, best known as one of founders of satirical weekly Feral Tribune.H

Is Croatian writer and journalist, best known as one of founders of satirical weekly Feral Tribune.He was one of the members of original VIVA LUDEŽ trio of Split humourists that started working in 1984 and founded the weekly in 1993. Dežulovic wrote for Feral until 1999 when he left for Globus where he writes a regular column.

Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer, in the West best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivag

Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer, in the West best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago. The novel is a tragedy, whose events span through the last period of Tsarist Russia and early days of Soviet Union, and was first translated and published in Italy in 1957.

Was a notable Russian writer. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about pilot Alexei Pe

Was a notable Russian writer. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about pilot Alexei Petrovich Maresiev (or Alexej Petrovich Maresjev).

Croatian composer and conductor. He was the son of Greek noble Konstantin Papandopulo and Croatian o

Croatian composer and conductor. He was the son of Greek noble Konstantin Papandopulo and Croatian opera singer Maja Strozzi-Pecic,

Was a Russian author. Born Boris Andreyevich Vogau in Mozhaisk, he was a major supporter of anti-urb

Was a Russian author. Born Boris Andreyevich Vogau in Mozhaisk, he was a major supporter of anti-urbanism and a critic of mechanized society. These views often brought him into suspicion with Communist critics. His most famous works are The Naked Year, Ma

Is a Brazilian translator, writer and essayist.When he was 8, before leaving USSR due to the antisem

Is a Brazilian translator, writer and essayist.When he was 8, before leaving USSR due to the antisemitism,[1] he saw the filming of the classical scene from the Odessa Steps of the legendary Sergey Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin. But Schnaiderman only understand what he was seeing after watching the movie in the cinema.[1]He became a Brazilian naturalized citizen in 1941[1] and fought in the World War II in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, an experience that inspired him to write the romance Guerra em Surdina ("Muted War"). Due to the way that the Russian culture was seen in the Military dictatorship period in Brazil, his positions against the repression and because he has Soviet passport,[1] Schnaiderman was arrested while he was lecturing.

Was the most famous Soviet compere.

Was the most famous Soviet compere.

Was a Soviet poet. Between 1941-1945 he served in the Red Army (he was a politruk of an infantry pla

Was a Soviet poet. Between 1941-1945 he served in the Red Army (he was a politruk of an infantry platoon), his war experiences colouring much of his poetry.

Was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engin

Was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. Vian's other fiction, published under his real name, featured a highly individual writing style with numerous madeup words, subtle wordplay and surrealistic plots. L'Écume des jours is the most known of these works, and one of the few translated into English.

Was a Russian writer and revolutionary terrorist. As one of the leaders of the Fighting Organisation

Was a Russian writer and revolutionary terrorist. As one of the leaders of the Fighting Organisation of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, he was responsible for the most spectacular assassinations of imperial officials in 1904 and 1905.

Was a composer and writer. Boris Asafiev lived in the Soviet Union where he had a strong musical inf

Was a composer and writer. Boris Asafiev lived in the Soviet Union where he had a strong musical influence.

Is a Russian-born Israeli composer, resident of Karlsruhe, Germany. He emigrated to Israel before th

Is a Russian-born Israeli composer, resident of Karlsruhe, Germany. He emigrated to Israel before the break-up of Soviet Union, and completed his composition studies at the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. Later he moved to Karlsruhe, Germany to study with Wolfgang Rihm in 1997.[2] Around that time, the composer began composing a series of short pieces for string quartet. These were given a performance at ZKM in Karlsruhe in May 2003[citation needed]. In addition to the quartets, his compositions include a chamber opera (Esther de Racine), premiered in Basel in 2006[citation needed], and an opera in Yiddish based on a story by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov[citation needed]. The Baden-Baden Philharmonic has commissioned several works from Yoffe[citation needed], including a pantomime ("Prince Cuckoo") that was later revived in Augsburg[citation needed]. He has received an award from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (2000)[citation needed]. His pieces have been broadcast by Südwestrundfunk, the BBC, and the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, among others[citation needed].

Was a Serbian/Montenegrin writer. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that

Was a Serbian/Montenegrin writer. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his immigration to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade. He is considered one of the most important

Was a composer, conductor, teacher, and leading member of the new generation of twentieth century Uk

Was a composer, conductor, teacher, and leading member of the new generation of twentieth century Ukrainian composers. Borys Lyatoshynsky was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His father, Mykola Leontiyovych Lyatoshynsky, was a history teacher and was an activis

Is a German playwright, novelist and essayist. His father was a chemist. After finishing his seconda

Is a German playwright, novelist and essayist. His father was a chemist. After finishing his secondary education, he studied German, History of the Theatre and Sociology in Koeln and Muenchen, but never finished his dissertation on "Thomas Mann und das Th

Is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des os

Is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements (Murambi: The Book of Remains), is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Was a Dutch writer, poet and television presenter.Büch exhibited pseudologia fantastica, uttering m

Was a Dutch writer, poet and television presenter.Büch exhibited pseudologia fantastica, uttering many complete falsehoods about his life.[2] Tellingly, a 2004 biography has the subtitle (translated) "Report on a mystification".One of these lies was that he was the father of a child that had died at the age of around six. The boy he referred to did exist, but the child was not his and it did not die. This lie formed the basis of his successful novel De kleine blonde dood ("The small blond death").[2]

Bozin Pavlovski has written fourteen novels in Macedonian, out of which ten have been translated in

Bozin Pavlovski has written fourteen novels in Macedonian, out of which ten have been translated in English in collaboration with authors and friends, including James Thomev, Biljana John, Michael Serafinov and his daughter Elena Ciavarella, with supervis

He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1968 to 1972, and has served

He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1968 to 1972, and has served as President of the World Archaeological Congress. He also worked in for UNESCO committees. He received the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2000.He has done excavations in the Indus Valley Civilization with Mortimer Wheeler and other archaeologists. He has had a spectacularly successful and exemplary archaeological career spanning more than half-a-century. He was trained in excavation by the veteran archaeologist, Wheeler at Taxila, Harappa and other famous sites in the forties of the last century. Out of his many pupils Wheeler chose Lal to entrust the excavation of the Early Historic site of Sisupalgarh in Orissa before relinquishing the charge of the Director-General of Archaeology in India in 1947.

Is an active member of the open source software community. He is the author of Vim, a text editor wh

Is an active member of the open source software community. He is the author of Vim, a text editor which is very popular among programmers and users of Free Software.

Born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, son of Dr. Edgar and Mar

Born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, son of Dr. Edgar and Mary Beth (Tuttle) Wilson is the eldest of 3 children. By the age of fourteen, he was contributing articles to two local newspapers (Coraopolis Record and Moon Bulletin) and was published in two national high school anthologies. He was also an avid outdoorsman and active in the Boy Scouts of America, earning the Eagle Scout award (1966) with bronze, silver and gold palms,

Was a Serbian novelist of Aromanian descent, playwright, satirist, essayist and founder of modern rh

Was a Serbian novelist of Aromanian descent, playwright, satirist, essayist and founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil servant.

Was a Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist Mandrágora group.Years later, he started l

Was a Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist Mandrágora group.Years later, he started law studies in Santiago, which he soon abandoned to focus on writing. Through Eduardo Anguita, he met Vicente Huidobro, father of "Creationism" literary movement, which disputed literary inovations with Dada and Surrealism. Influenced by these European currents, Arenas founded with some friends, in 1938, the Surrealist group Mandrágora.

Is an American novelist who writes contemporary multicultural romance novels. She was the first Afri

Is an American novelist who writes contemporary multicultural romance novels. She was the first African-American author to have a novel published as part of the Silhouette Desire line, and has seen many of her novels reach the USAToday Bestseller list.