Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter M

A modern Bangladeshi author and novelist.

A modern Bangladeshi author and novelist.

Was a Japanese author and doctor.He was born in Ito, Shizuoka as Masao Ota (????). He translated Ger

Was a Japanese author and doctor.He was born in Ito, Shizuoka as Masao Ota (????). He translated German literature with “Gathering of Pan” (????) and studied documents of Japanese Christianity in 16th century. He wrote some plays called “????” (Kirisitan Mono), depicted Kirishitan, Christian in feudal Japan.

Is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. She is a member of that nation'

Is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. She is a member of that nation's third generation of such composers.Ghoneim studied piano with E. Puglisi and composition with Gamal Abdel-Rahim at the Cairo Conservatoire beginning in 1

Was an American poet.Van Duyn was born in 1921 in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in the small town of E

Was an American poet.Van Duyn was born in 1921 in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in the small town of Eldora, Iowa (pop. 3,200) where she read voraciously in the town library and wrote poems secretly in notebooks from her grade school years to her high school years. Van Duyn earned a B.A. degree from Northern Iowa University in 1942, and an M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1943, the year she married Jarvis Thurston. She and Thurston studied in the Ph.D. program at Iowa. In 1946 she was hired as an instructor at the University of Louisville when her husband became an assistant professor there. Together they began Perspective: A Quarterly of Literature in 1947 and shifted that journal to Washington University in St. Louis when they moved there in 1950. Van Duyn was a lecturer in the University College adult education program until her retirement in 1990. In 1983, a year after she had published her fifth book of poems, she was named an adjunct Professor in the English Department and became the "Visiting Hurst Professor" in 1987, the year she was invited to be a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Is a German vocalist - born Sabine Bredy in Hamburg to Polish parents, 1960. In 1982 she first colla

Is a German vocalist - born Sabine Bredy in Hamburg to Polish parents, 1960. In 1982 she first collaborated with FM Einheit, Marc Chung, and Alex Hacke, all of Einstürzende Neubauten. As "Mona Mur und die Mieter (the tenants)" they recorded the 12" Jeszcze Polska. This gained National and International attention, taking NME's Single of the Week slot and getting airplay by John Peel. The group decided to disband soon after this release.

Is a German sports journalist.[1] In 1989 she passed her Abitur at the Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium i

Is a German sports journalist.[1] In 1989 she passed her Abitur at the Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium in Hamburg. She studied English and German literature at the University of Hamburg during which she worked as a junior in the editorial office of the magazi

Was an English award-winning author notable in Australian literature for her critically acclaimed no

Was an English award-winning author notable in Australian literature for her critically acclaimed novels based upon the alienated characters and the nature of loneliness and entrapment. She wrote 15 novels and 4 short story collections, and won many awards during her career. She was also a teacher of creative writing whose students went on to win many awards.

Is an award-winning Australian journalist

Is an award-winning Australian journalist

Is an Iranian writer. Most of her stories are set in south of Iran and its settings are from nature

Is an Iranian writer. Most of her stories are set in south of Iran and its settings are from nature and people of Iran's south.

Was a French composer and violist.It is speculated by various scholars that Monsieur de Sainte-Colom

Was a French composer and violist.It is speculated by various scholars that Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe was of Lyonnaise or Burgundian petty nobility; and also the selfsame 'Jean de Sainte-Colombe' noted as the father of 'Monsieur de Saint Colombe le fils'. This assumption was erroneous as proved by subsequent research taken on by Jonathan Dunford in Paris [1

Was a Malayalam author who is known for his work Aphante Makal which had great social relevance in p

Was a Malayalam author who is known for his work Aphante Makal which had great social relevance in pre-independent Kerala society.

Was a Canadian author, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called hi

Was a Canadian author, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history.[1] His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version, and the Jacob Two-Two children's stories. Richler's uncompromising opinions on contemporary Canada easily matched, and sometimes exceeded, the satirical sting of his fiction.

Is an Israeli artist, author, poet and psychologist.As an artist he is engaged in plastic arts, cera

Is an Israeli artist, author, poet and psychologist.As an artist he is engaged in plastic arts, ceramics and photography. His photographs were exhibited at such places as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In addition he treasured exhibitions for many other Israeli artists.

A contemporary Australian poet, novelist and academic.Morgan Yasbincek lives in Western Australia an

A contemporary Australian poet, novelist and academic.Morgan Yasbincek lives in Western Australia and has completed a PhD at Murdoch University, where she tutored creative writing and has also had a residency at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Her writing, in both poetry and prose, deals with everyday concerns refracted through the lens of contemporary literary theory. Her first collection of poems, Night Reversing, won both the Anne Elder and the Mary Gilmore Awards for poetry.

Was a Japanese author and daughter of famed novelist Mori Ogai. Born in Hongo, Tokyo, she began a mo

Was a Japanese author and daughter of famed novelist Mori Ogai. Born in Hongo, Tokyo, she began a movement of writing about gay male passion (tanbi shousetsu) in 1961 with A Lovers' Forest ?????? koibito tachi no mori, (which won the Tamuka Toshiyo Prize) and its sequels I Don't Go on Sundays (1961) and The Bed of Dead Leaves (1962). Mori Mari was greatly influenced by her father and in A Lover's Forest, the older man can be seen as imbued with the same virtues and honor as she saw in her father. New York University (NYU) Professor Keith Vincent has called her a "Japanese Electra," referring to the Electra complex counterpart put forth by Carl Jung to Sigmund Freud's Oedipal complex.

Was an Edo period Japanese author of popular fiction who also wrote a number of works in the field o

Was an Edo period Japanese author of popular fiction who also wrote a number of works in the field of rangaku (Western studies). He wrote under many pen names, including Manzotei, Shinra Manzo (or, conventionally, Shinra Bansho), and Tenjiku Rojin ("old man from India"). The latter constituted an allusion to the pen name Tenjiku Ronin ("masterless samurai from India"), used by Hiraga Gennai, to whom Churyo was the principal literary successor. Churyo co-authored several plays with Gennai early in his career, and went on to write in almost all of the many genres of popular fiction that were collectively known as gesaku. He also wrote kyoka, or comic poetry, under the pen name Taketsue no Sugaru. Churyo was the younger brother of Katsuragawa Hoshu, a shogunal physician and leading scholar of rangaku.

Is a German composer and pianist. Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 a

Is a German composer and pianist. Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt (with Wolfgang Wagenhaeuser and Claus Kühnl), at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt (with Leonard Hokanson) and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (with Wilhelm Killmayer). Later he continued his piano studies with Raymund Havenith and Dieter Lallinger, and his composition studies with Hans-Jürgen von Bose in Munich. In 1992 he spent a year in London as a post-graduate composition student with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Was a German music theorist, teacher and composer. Hauptmann was born at Dresden, and studied violin

Was a German music theorist, teacher and composer. Hauptmann was born at Dresden, and studied violin under Scholz, piano under Franz Lanska, composition under Grosse and Francesco Morlacchi, the rival of Carl Maria von Weber. Afterwards, he completed his education as a violinist and composer under Louis Spohr, and till 1821 held various appointments in private families, varying his musical occupations with mathematical and other studies bearing chiefly on acoustics and kindred subjects.

Was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate (1959), Th

Was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate (1959), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963), and The Clowns of God (1981). His books were published in 27 languages and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. Each new book he wrote after he became an established writer sold more than 1 million copies.[1]His works often were focused on international politics and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in international affairs. One of his most famous works, The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963), envisioned the election and career of a Slavic Pope, 15 years before the historic election of Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II.

An Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work f

An Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focuses on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men (often writers) of Lurie's generation, who are invariably jazz fans.Lurie was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Arie and Esther Lurie. His first novel was the comic Rappaport (Hodder and Stoughton, 1966) and focused with a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend Friedlander. The characters, transplanted to London, were further chronicled in Rappaport's Revenge (1973). Lurie's self-exile from Australia to Europe, the UK and Northern Africa provides much of the material for his fiction. His second novel was The London Jungle Adventures of Charlie Hope (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968). Flying Home (1978) was named by the National Book Council as one of the ten best Australian books of the decade. Subsequent novels are Seven Books for Grossman (1983), really a novella parodying the styles of various authors; and Madness (1991), about a writer dealing with a mentally unstable girlfriend.

Is an American composer of Danish ancestry. He is a long-time professor of Composition at the Univer

Is an American composer of Danish ancestry. He is a long-time professor of Composition at the University of Southern California (USC) Thornton School of Music, and served as chairman of its Composition Department between 1990 and 2002.

Is a Danish-born, Singapore-based bird photographer, author and publisher. Strange was born in Copen

Is a Danish-born, Singapore-based bird photographer, author and publisher. Strange was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, worked in the offshore oil industry in the North Sea and Asia as a field service engineer, and retired in 1986 as a field service supervisor.Before and after this, Strange was an active bird photographer, writer and editor. He has authored many books, especially about rainforest birds in the South-east Asian region. He is currently managing director of Draco Publishing and Distribution Pte Ltd, as well as editor of Nature Watch, the official magazine of Nature Society (Singapore).

Is an author, and a survivor of the Israeli destroyer named "Eilat".His chilling story about the per

Is an author, and a survivor of the Israeli destroyer named "Eilat".His chilling story about the personal trauma, desperation, loneliness and anxiety in those tragic night hours, are brought together in a book, written by Moshe Levy, called "The 48th Soul."

Was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure. He was one of the most importa

Was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure. He was one of the most important Israeli writers of modern times.In the Israeli War of Independence he served in Palmach. He began his political career as a member of the movement Hashomer Hatzair, in which he filled a leadership role. He was one of the editors of their official newspaper Al Ha-Homa from 1939 to 1941.

Is a prominent Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editor. He is working on a project calle

Is a prominent Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editor. He is working on a project called Rationality and Spirituality. His most important book, that is about spirituality and wisdom, is A Way to Freedom.