Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter N

Is one of the most famous living composers in Greece. His talent is well known to the Greek audience

Is one of the most famous living composers in Greece. His talent is well known to the Greek audience and his passion for music has created great and memorial songs in Greek discography.

Was a Greek poet and writer; currently one of the most popular poets in Greece, who, used his travel

Was a Greek poet and writer; currently one of the most popular poets in Greece, who, used his travels around the world as a sailor, and the idealised life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people outside the boundaries of reality.

Was one of the most important Greek composers of 20th-century music. A member of the Second Viennese

Was one of the most important Greek composers of 20th-century music. A member of the Second Viennese School, he drew his influences from both the classical repertoire and the Greek tradition.

Was a Bangladeshi educationist, littérateur and social worker. She is well known for her outstandin

Was a Bangladeshi educationist, littérateur and social worker. She is well known for her outstanding scholarship on Bangla literature but even more so for her depiction of raped and tortured women in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War in her book Ami Virangona Bolchhi (I, the heroine, speak).

Is a Filipino composer and chorister. Alcala graduated BS Development Communication from the Univers

Is a Filipino composer and chorister. Alcala graduated BS Development Communication from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (BSDC 1999) prior to his admission in 2001 to the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Music (BM 2007) where he graduated magna cum laude. His major composition teachers were Josefino ‘Chino’ Toledo and Ram?n P. Santos. He also had lessons with Jonas Baes and Christine Muyco.

Is an Iranian playwright and theatre director.1994: Banu in the mirror city (performed in the same y

Is an Iranian playwright and theatre director.1994: Banu in the mirror city (performed in the same year under direction of Mohsen Hosseini in Frankfurt am Main) 1995: Marjan, Mani and a few small problems 1996: The last game 1997: No Man's Land 2000: The blue dreams of the gray women 2005: Come dance with me (Daughters of the Sun) 2006: The Voice of Silence

Was a Swedish poet.Nils Ferlin was born in Karlstad, Värmland, where his father worked at the Nya W

Was a Swedish poet.Nils Ferlin was born in Karlstad, Värmland, where his father worked at the Nya Wermlands-Tidningen newspaper. 1908 the family moved to Filipstad and the father started his own paper. Unfortunately the father died one year later and the family was forced to move from their adequate residence to more simple living conditions at the industry district to still manage to stay in school which he graduated from at the age of sixteen.

Is a Finnish broadcast journalist, writer and politician. Torvalds is the son of the poet Ole Torval

Is a Finnish broadcast journalist, writer and politician. Torvalds is the son of the poet Ole Torvalds, and the father of the computer programmer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel fame. [1]Torvalds was active in the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) since he was a college student in the 1960s. He was elected to the Central Committee of the SKP in 1982.[2] His political beliefs developed after learning of the atrocities committed against communist sympathizers in Finland. In his son Linus' book, he is reported as having lost enthusiasm for Communism.

Was an Argentine Thomist writer and fascist politician.A native of Córdoba, Argentina, de Anquín s

Was an Argentine Thomist writer and fascist politician.A native of Córdoba, Argentina, de Anquín studied law at National University of Cordoba.[1] With his studies in Argentina completed he travelled to Germany to study philospohy under Ernst Cassirer.[2] Whilst in Europe he developed his interest in politics and became a follower of the ideas of Charles Maurras after coming into contact with his work.[1] Soon de Anquín sought to develop his own political ideas by seeking to combine Thomism with Hegelianism, leading him to call for a national syndicalist state.[3]

Was a Russian and Soviet poet, writer, historian and ethnographer. The original (Swedish) spelling o

Was a Russian and Soviet poet, writer, historian and ethnographer. The original (Swedish) spelling of the family name is Hagen-Thorn. She was born in St. Petersburg to a noble (dvoryan) family of baron Ivan Eduardovich Gagen-Torn, physician, Russified Swede. She graduated from the Petrograd Institute of Geography and post-graduate course of the Petrograd University (1924). She was a lecturer, worked in the Museum of Ethnography and was secretary of the magazine Soviet Ethnography (1934).

An Indian English language writer.He started writing small articles and composing poems in Manipuri

An Indian English language writer.He started writing small articles and composing poems in Manipuri and English language since his school days . He is currently involved in writing for science particularly physics, social issues, humanity, peace and green world, philosophical, argumentative opinions etc. and composing poems in the two languages. He also writes in The Hindu , Times of India and E-pao.

Was an Italian composer best known for his work on film scores, notably the films of Federico Fellin

Was an Italian composer best known for his work on film scores, notably the films of Federico Fellini. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy.

Was a French composer of the Renaissance, probably associated with the French royal chapel. Although

Was a French composer of the Renaissance, probably associated with the French royal chapel. Although a substantial amount of his music has survived in several sources, his actual name is not known with certainty.

Was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of pioneers of ‘Nayi Kahani’ (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature[1], wherein his first collection of stories, ‘Parinde’ (Birds) is considered its first signature[2].In his career spanning five decades and various forms of literature, like story, travelogue and essays, he penned five novels, eight short-story collections and nine books of non fiction, including essays and travelogues [

An Indian writer. Noted for a passionate personal style, she writes poems in Punjabi, and sometimes

An Indian writer. Noted for a passionate personal style, she writes poems in Punjabi, and sometimes transcreates them in English.she is an established presence in the field of Punjabi poetry and short fiction. A senior journalist with thirty years of experience, she has worked with leading Indian newspapers and journals. She has published one volume of poems – Ik Nadi Sanwali Jahi (A Stream Somewhat Dark) – for which she was awarded the Delhi Punjabi Akademi Award in 2000. Her poetry has been translated into English, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu and featured in various anthologies. In 2004, she co-edited with Ajeet Cour an anthology of SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) poetry entitled Our Voices.

Was a haikai-no-renga poet of the early Tokugawa period. He founded the Danrin (which translates as

Was a haikai-no-renga poet of the early Tokugawa period. He founded the Danrin (which translates as 'talkative forest') school of haikai poetry, which aimed to move away from the serious 'bookishness' popular in Japanese poetry at the time and become more

Was a Jewish cantor and composer. He was cantor in Balti (Beltsy), Bessarabia, and was generally kno

Was a Jewish cantor and composer. He was cantor in Balti (Beltsy), Bessarabia, and was generally known as ‘Nisn Beltzer’. Later he was cantor at Kishinev (Bessarabia) and from 1877 at Berdyczów (now in Ukraine).In his childhood he had an accident which da

Was a poet, playwright, editor and art critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's

Was a poet, playwright, editor and art critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian writing in English.Ezekiel's first book, A Time to Change, appeared in 1952. He published another volume of poems

Was a French novelist, and journalist for Le Nouvel Observateur.[1]

Was a French novelist, and journalist for Le Nouvel Observateur.[1]

Was a Christian, agricultural economist, author, educator, diplomat, and politician during Meiji and

Was a Christian, agricultural economist, author, educator, diplomat, and politician during Meiji and Taisho period Japan.In 1883, Nitobe entered Tokyo Imperial University for further studies in English literature and in economics. Disappointed by the level of research in Tokyo, he quit the university and sought study opportunities in the United States.In 1884, Nitobe traveled to the United States where he stayed for three years, and studied economics and political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. While in Baltimore he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) [1]. It was through a Quaker community in Philadelphia that he met Mary Patterson Elkinton, whom he eventually married. He also influenced the establishment of the Friends School in Tokyo.

Is a Cuban poet and novelist.Nivaria Tejera, the daughter of a Cuban mother and a Spanish father, wa

Is a Cuban poet and novelist.Nivaria Tejera, the daughter of a Cuban mother and a Spanish father, was born in Cuba in 1929. Before she was two, she moved with her parents to Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, where her father was taken prisoner at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was not freed until 1944.

Is Croatian singer, model, socialite and writer. Nives was born in Zagreb, as Nives Zeljkovic.Nives

Is Croatian singer, model, socialite and writer. Nives was born in Zagreb, as Nives Zeljkovic.Nives recently wrote an autobiography, Gola Istina (Naked Truth), where she describes her life before her marriage to the Croatian football footballer, Dino Drpic.

A male Japanese light novel and game scenario author from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. He is well-know

A male Japanese light novel and game scenario author from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. He is well-known for being the author of the Zero no Tsukaima light novels.

A Japanese author.Takagi was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, graduated from the Junior College of Toky

A Japanese author.Takagi was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, graduated from the Junior College of Tokyo Woman's Christian University (now Tokyo Woman's Christian University), and first published in 1980 with Sono hosoki michi (That Narrow Road). It was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, as were her subsequent stories Tôsugiru tomo (A Distant Friend, 1981), Oikaze (A Following Wind, 1982), and Hikari idaku tomo yo (To a Friend Embracing the Light, 1983), which won the prize. Other works include Ginga no shizuku (Drops Falling from the Milky Way, 1993) and Tsuta moe (The Burning Vine, 1994).

Was a Japanese writer. He is most readily associated with other writers of his generation, such as S

Was a Japanese writer. He is most readily associated with other writers of his generation, such as Shotaro Yasuoka, who describe the effects of Japan's defeat in World War II on the country's psyche.From an early age, Kojima read a wide variety of literature, both Japanese and Western, and such writers as Nikolai Gogol, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoevsky had a strong influence on his work. Alongside his writing, he had a long career as a professor of English literature at Meiji University in Tokyo, writing translations and criticism of many major American writers. [1]