Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Was a writer of the medieval era who strongly challenged misogyny and stereotypes that were prevalen

Was a writer of the medieval era who strongly challenged misogyny and stereotypes that were prevalent in the male-dominated realm of the arts. Pizan completed forty-one pieces during her thirty-year career (1399–1429).

Is a French sociologist, feminist, writer and journalist. She was a co-founder of the review Nouvell

Is a French sociologist, feminist, writer and journalist. She was a co-founder of the review Nouvelles questions féministes (New Feminist Issues) with Simone de Beauvoir in 1977.[1][2][3]. Delphy studied sociology at University of Paris and started working for Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris from 1966. She became a professor at University of Paris. Delphy's works are mostly on feminism and class-struggle issues.[1] Delphy is one of the feminists who opposed the law which prohibited the Muslim scarf at the school in France, 2004.[2] She is openly lesbian.[4] She was a member of the Gouines rouges.[5]

Is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television. She graduated fr

Is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television. She graduated from Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 1965. She worked for American television and collaborated on 60 Minutes, the CBS News Magazine. Back in France, she worked on Europe 1, a national radio station where she was in charge of morning news.

Was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church

Was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, from 1998 until his death.

He belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who be

He belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi.

Is a German organist, conductor, composer, musicologist, and music educator. He has toured extensive

Is a German organist, conductor, composer, musicologist, and music educator. He has toured extensively as an organist, appearing in concerts and recitals throughout Europe and in the United States. He is the author of several publications on the topics of liturgy and hymnology. He has also written extensively on sacred music from the 16th through the 18th centuries, and has been instrumental in publishing many forgotten works from that period.[1]

He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig (now Gdansk) and in Warsaw By the age

He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig (now Gdansk) and in Warsaw By the age of 20 he was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz. He then spent a year in Copenhagen to study singing with Agostino Fontana. After his appointment as assistant kapellmeister in Dresden in 1655, Bernhard made two sojourns to Italy to further his musical education. When he was 35, he moved to Hamburg to work as the director of music for the Johanneum and for civic musical events. The next ten years were a golden time in the musical tradition of Hamburg: Bernhard and his good friend Matthias Weckmann performed together and directed the latest compositions from Italy and Vienna, as well as composing an important collection of music in finely-wrought counterpoint.

Was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi,

Was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi, and represented a transitional phase in German Lutheran music from the polyphonic Renaissance style to the early Baroque. Demantius was a hugely prolific composer, though many of his works have been lost. Stylistically he was a successor to Lassus, who was also working in Germany during the first part of Demantius's life. He wrote most of his music before the Thirty Years' War; it is probable that the hardships of the war, including lack of performing musicians, made it difficult to compose and publish.[2]

Was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music who lived and worked at the same time

Was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music who lived and worked at the same time as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel. In 1705 Graupner left Leipzig to play the harpsichord in the orchestra of the Hamburg Opera under the direction of Reinhard Keiser, alongside a young violinist named Handel. In addition to playing the harpsichord, Graupner composed six operas in Hamburg, some of them in collaboration with Keiser, a popular composer of operas in Germany.

Is a German cellist and composer. Having studied with Antonio Janigro, Antonio Meneses, Anner Bylsma

Is a German cellist and composer. Having studied with Antonio Janigro, Antonio Meneses, Anner Bylsma and Hidemi Suzuki, he developed special interest in early music interpretation on period instruments. Founder of the group German Baroque, he performed with Taka Kitazato, Hidemi Suzuki, Corrado Bolsi, Linde Brunmayr. The composer Christoph Theinert was influenced by Heitor Villa Lobos, Lukas Foss, Steve Reich, Egberto Gismonti, Giovanni Sollima, Jean Michel Jarre and Philip Glass. He records for the label Ancient Music Edition. As a soloist he regularly works with his brother, the conductor Markus Theinert.

Is a German journalist working as the editor and as a United States correspondent in Washington D.C.

Is a German journalist working as the editor and as a United States correspondent in Washington D.C. for the daily Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Before that, he was the director of the commentary section. Christoph von Marschall was born in 1959 in F

Was a composer of the 18th century, most noted for his operatic works. After many years at the Habsb

Was a composer of the 18th century, most noted for his operatic works. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century.

He is a French comics writer and editor. His real name is Christophe Pelinq. He has also worked as "

He is a French comics writer and editor. His real name is Christophe Pelinq. He has also worked as "Scotch Arleston".[1] In his early childhood, Christophe Arleston lived in Madagascar, Macon and Paris before returning to Aix-en-Provence. He studied journalism at Marseille. He started his career by working as a journalist and later in communications. He started writing radio drama for France Inter.

Christophe Bertrand started his career in the systems integration and software business, and moved t

Christophe Bertrand started his career in the systems integration and software business, and moved to the storage industry 15 years ago, with a focus on product management and product marketing. He has authored many articles on Disaster Recovery and data protection technologies, and has spoken at many Business Continuity, analyst and storage industry events. He is currently the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Hitachi Data Systems where he spearheads efforts to expand HDS's storage products and solutions.

Is a French political scientist. Doctor of political sciences and public law, he is a professor at t

Is a French political scientist. Doctor of political sciences and public law, he is a professor at the Université de Caen, after having been on the staff of the Université de Bourgogne. After a thesis on the political thought of Julius Evola, he focused his research on electoral studies, the question of decentralisation and on political parties in France.

Is a French writer and translator. He is one of the leading promoters of contemporary American liter

Is a French writer and translator. He is one of the leading promoters of contemporary American literature in France. His translations in French include works by William T. Vollmann, Thomas Pynchon and Mark Z. Danielewski, amongst many others.

Was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. His music displayed a variety of stylist

Was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. His music displayed a variety of stylistic innovations and was considerably different from his contemporaries' works. A provincial composer, Moyreau did not achieve much fame during his lifetime and is almost completely forgotten today. His most known and most frequently performed piece is Les Cloches d'Orléans, an organ composition that imitates the bells of Orléans Cathedral.

Is a French pianist and composer. His mother was the actress Catherine Léry Fuchsmann, and his fath

Is a French pianist and composer. His mother was the actress Catherine Léry Fuchsmann, and his father was a film-maker and journalist. He started to compose at the age of 10 and although mainly self-taught as a composer, he later consulted with the musicologist Vladimir Chinayev and the composer Victoria Borisova-Ollas. Also influential was Alain Poirier’s analysis course at Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (1993–5).

Is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especi

Is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.His plays have been performed nationwide, including on Broadway and Off-Broadway.[3] His works include Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Beyond Therapy, Baby With the Bathwater, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, Titanic

Is an Emmy Award-winning writer, Grammy Award-winning composer/musician, director, and comic actor.

Is an Emmy Award-winning writer, Grammy Award-winning composer/musician, director, and comic actor. He is most widely known for having written, directed and starred in several "mockumentary" films of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, films that feature a repertory-like ensemble cast.

Was the son of the artist, illustrator and cartoonist Thomas Derrick. He was educated at Douai Schoo

Was the son of the artist, illustrator and cartoonist Thomas Derrick. He was educated at Douai School 1934-39, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1940 and 1945-47, his studies being interrupted by service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. From 1953 to 1965 he was on the administrative staff of the University of London, as well as working as a publisher's reader. Thereafter he worked independently as a literary adviser to various publishers, as a book reviewer, and as a writer and lecturer. He died on 2 October 2007 at the age of 86.

Was an Australian poet and scholar.Brennan was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, to a brew

Was an Australian poet and scholar.Brennan was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, to a brewer,[1] and was educated at St Aloysius' College and St Ignatius' College, Riverview.He entered the University of Sydney in 1888 taking up studies in the Cl

Was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Office

Was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature.His novel The Year of Living Dangerously, set in Jakarta during the fall of the Sukarno regime, was made into a film directed by Peter Weir and starring Sigourney Weaver, Mel Gibson and Linda Hunt.The book was loosely inspired by his brother's (Philip Koch) experience as an Australian journalist in Indonesia during that period.

Is an American photojournalist, best known for his war photographs.Most of Morris' work has concentr

Is an American photojournalist, best known for his war photographs.Most of Morris' work has concentrated on war. Some of the wars he photographed were the US invasion of Iraq, the drug war in Colombia, the Persian Gulf war, the wars in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yugoslavia, and Chechnya - more than 18 foreign conflicts. He documented the presidency of George W. Bush for Time, and is a founding member of the VII Photo Agency.

Is a British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread A

Is a British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards, in 1996 and in 1997. A contemporary of Martin Amis, he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He is one of the exponents of Martian poetry which em