Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Is an American pianist and composer.His career started with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davi

Is an American pianist and composer.His career started with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in both classical music and jazz, as a group leader and a solo performer

An Australian poet and art critic.where he also tutored.[1] In the late 70s he edited the poetry mag

An Australian poet and art critic.where he also tutored.[1] In the late 70s he edited the poetry magazine Magic Sam and began the small press Sea Cruise Books with Anna Couani.[2] His first book of poems, Four Poems, was published in 1977. In 1982 he moved to Adelaide to work at the Experimental Art Foundation.[1]He has since edited the literary magazine Otis Rush and collaborated with poet John Jenkins on a number of books of poetry. His Selected Poems was published by Penguin in 1992 and he edited Brandl & Schlesinger's Homage to John Forbes. His criticism has appeared in Photofile, Art and Text, Art Monthly and Art & Australia among other periodicals; and Wakefield Press has published his monograph on the contemporary sculptor Michelle Nikou. His latest collection (At The Flash & At The Baci, 2006) has been described as "prov[ing] to us that Ken Bolton is a prime example of a poet breaking new ground in Australian poetry."[3]

Is the pen name of the Senegalese Francophone novelist Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma. The name derives fr

Is the pen name of the Senegalese Francophone novelist Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma. The name derives from the Wolof language, in which it means "one who is unwanted."Bugul was raised in a polygamous environment. Her father was an 85-year-old marabout. After co

A writer and professional historian based in Perth, Western Australia. He has a prolific set of hist

A writer and professional historian based in Perth, Western Australia. He has a prolific set of histories of sporting clubs, localities and government instituitions.His earlier major publication was concerning the history of Subiaco, Western Australia - and he returned for a follow-up history some 20 years later. Tied in with writing and research of the Subiaco book - he also conducted interviews which are now part of the Battye Library oral history collecction.

A Japanese author. He received the Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Summer’s Passage (????,

A Japanese author. He received the Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Summer’s Passage (????, Natsu no nagare?), in 1966 at the age of 23, becoming the youngest winner of the Akutagawa Prize at that moment.

Was a Japanese photojournalist shot dead in Burma during the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests.N

Was a Japanese photojournalist shot dead in Burma during the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests.Nagai continued to take photos as he lay wounded on the ground, later dying from gunshot injuries to the chest. He was the only foreign national killed in the protests.[1]Kenji Nagai grew up in Imabari, Ehime, Japan, and graduated from Imabari Nishi High School. Nagai attended Tokyo Keizai University (??????), and after graduation he studied abroad in the United States for a year. After his return to Japan, Nagai held a part-time job before embarking upon his career as a freelance journalist.[2]

Was a noted Japanese writer, critic, and poet of buraku ancestry. Nakagami died from kidney cancer i

Was a noted Japanese writer, critic, and poet of buraku ancestry. Nakagami died from kidney cancer in 1992 at the age of 46.Many of his works are set in the Kumano region of the Kii Peninsula where he grew up under difficult circumstances. When Nakagami won the Akutagawa Prize in 1975 for The Cape (? Misaki), he became the first author born in the post-war period to win this prize. He is considered one of the most important postwar writers in Japan, and one of the only of prominence to reveal the dark side of a racist Japanese society. A number of Nakagami's short stories have been translated into English and other languages, including The Cape and Snakelust (?? Ja'in). He also won the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for his yet untranslated story Karekinada (??? The Sea of Withered Trees).

Was a Japanese writer.

Was a Japanese writer.

Was the pen-name of a journalist and writer of senryu (short, humorous verse) in late Meiji, Taisho

Was the pen-name of a journalist and writer of senryu (short, humorous verse) in late Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period Japan. His real name was Inoue Koichi.In 1905, Kenkabo founded a poetry group called Ryusonji Senryu Kai, which brought out its own short-lived literary magazine called Senryu. After retiring from working as an employee of the Nihon Shimbun newspaper, Kenkabo continued to manage the senryu columns of the Kokumin Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun newspapers and later resurrected Senryu in 1912, renaming it Taisho Senryu, to mark the beginning of the new Taisho period.

Was an Australian poet and journalist. He is one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly

Was an Australian poet and journalist. He is one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist infuences into Australian poetry.He made his living as a newspaper journalist, mostly for the Sydney Sun, and was a war correspondent during World War II (1939 – 1945). Slessor counted Norman Lindsay, Hugh McCrae and Jack Lindsay among his friends.

Was a prolific Australian journalist, film director, screenwriter, TV personality and novelist best

Was a prolific Australian journalist, film director, screenwriter, TV personality and novelist best known for his works Wake in Fright, which is still in print 45 years after its first publication[1], and the humourous Killer Koala trilogy.After leaving school he worked around Australia in a variety of jobs including laboratory technician, journalist and television documentary-maker and boatshed operator[2].In 1966, with businessman Gordon Barton, Cook founded a new political party, the Liberal Reform Group. Cook was vehemently opposed to the Vietnam War, and stood (unsucessfully) as an LRG candidate for the seat of Parramatta in the 1966 federal election[3].

Is an American author who writes on psychology, philosophy, mysticism, ecology, and spiritual evolut

Is an American author who writes on psychology, philosophy, mysticism, ecology, and spiritual evolution. He has been described as New Age,[1] although his writings are critical of much of the New Age movement.

Was an American author, best known for his debut novel,[1], One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as a

Was an American author, best known for his debut novel,[1], One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as a counter-cultural figure who, some consider, was a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. "I was too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie," Kesey said in a 1999 interview with Robert K. Elder.

Is a public librarian, fantasy author, and game designer, best known for his work with Tunnels & Tro

Is a public librarian, fantasy author, and game designer, best known for his work with Tunnels & Trolls. He has been an active member of The Science Fiction Writers of America since 1989.St. Andre is the original designer of the 'pen-and-paper' role-playing game Tunnels & Trolls which was first released by Flying Buffalo, Inc. in 1975. In addition to writing the game rules

Is a writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China

Is a writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at the cusp of both the Second Sino-Japanese War and subsequent Chinese Civil War. Pai's father was the famous Kuomintang (KMT) general Bai Chongxi (Pai Chung-hsi), whom he later described as a "stern, Confucian father" with "some soft spots in his heart." Pai was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven, during which time he would have to live in a separate house from his siblings (of which he would have a total of nine). He lived with his family in Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing before moving to the British-controlled Hong Kong in 1948 as CPC forces turned the tide of the Chinese Civil War. In 1952, Pai and his family resettled in Taiwan, where the KMT had relocated the Republic of China after Japan's defeat in 1945.

Was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He

Was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry, a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspec

Was an English author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the most famous art historians of hi

Was an English author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the most famous art historians of his generation. In 1969, he was catapulted to international fame as the writer, producer and presenter of the BBC Television series, Civilisation: A Personal View.

Was an American author who was born in Dothan, Alabama. In his fantasy fiction Grimwood combined the

Was an American author who was born in Dothan, Alabama. In his fantasy fiction Grimwood combined themes of life-affirmation and hope with metaphysical concepts, themes found in his best-known novel, the highly popular Replay.

His art and research involve explorations in computational poetics, theorizing the role of encoded p

His art and research involve explorations in computational poetics, theorizing the role of encoded practices in new media, cultural encoding and the development of interactive and generative techniques for the composition, sonification, visualization, and spatialization of media performances and installations.Kenneth is a member of the Computational Poetics research group with Aleksandra Dulic and Martin Gotfrit.

Was an American poet and novelist. Though he denied any direct connection, Patchen's work and ideas

Was an American poet and novelist. Though he denied any direct connection, Patchen's work and ideas regarding the role of artists paralleled those of the Dadaists and Surrealists. Patchen's ambitious body of work also foreshadowed literary art-forms ranging from reading poetry to jazz accompaniment to his late experiments with visual poetry (which he called his "picture poems").

Was an influential and often controversial British theatre critic and writer.Tynan was 12 when World

Was an influential and often controversial British theatre critic and writer.Tynan was 12 when World War II broke out. By the time the war ended, he had earned a scholarship to Oxford. Well before then he had adopted a fairly colourful set of views (and wardrobe items). During school debates he advocated repealing laws against homosexuality and abortion. He also gave a speech on the pleasures of masturbation, entitled "This House Thinks The Present Generation Has Lost The Ability To Entertain Itself."

Was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He was among the first poets in the United S

Was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He was among the first poets in the United States to explore traditional Japanese poetic forms such as haiku. He is regarded as a chief figure in the San Francisco Renaissance.

Was an American poet and longtime scholar who resided in Utah, where he served as Poet Laureate. Bor

Was an American poet and longtime scholar who resided in Utah, where he served as Poet Laureate. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he attended Butler University and Western New Mexico University in the 1960s, then earned a master's degree in English literatu

Was the pen-name of a Japanese author in Showa period Japan. His real name was Asakura Kikuo.Shimaki

Was the pen-name of a Japanese author in Showa period Japan. His real name was Asakura Kikuo.Shimaki Kensaku was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido in 1903. His father died when he was two years old, and he was raised by his mother. He was forced to drop out of elementary school in order to work to support his mother, and managed to continue his education by obtaining odd jobs at a local middle school and library.

After her roles in Show Me Love and Sherdil, Liljeberg began an adult education course in order to g

After her roles in Show Me Love and Sherdil, Liljeberg began an adult education course in order to graduate from high school. While studying, she also starred in the relatively successful arthouse film Bear's Kiss, and voiced a character in the Swedish version of IMAX film T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous. In 2002, she completed the adult education course, and then went on to study medicine at the Karolinska Institute to become a pediatrician. She was still studying there as of 2008.Liljeberg is known to enjoy working with computers, and has been working at a small computer firm for some years while studying. However, she has suggested that this is not something she wants to do in the long-term.