Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is a composer and jazz pianist.It began life as part of the Genesis Opera Project 2 (GOP2), supporte

Is a composer and jazz pianist.It began life as part of the Genesis Opera Project 2 (GOP2), supported by the [Genesis Foundation], The Original Chinese Conjuror, with a libretto by Lee Warren, was one of the six projects chosen for development out of the 200-plus proposals. Although it was not selected as one of the three projects to be fully developed following a workshop performance of a selection of scenes in 2003, it attracted the attention of various opera companies, and it was eventually commissioned by Aldeburgh Almeida Opera (with the support of Genesis Foundation) for the 2006 Aldeburgh Festival and the Almeida Opera Season.

Was an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola.

Was an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She is considered by one commentator to be one of the most important British composers in the interwar period between World War I and World War II;[1] she has also been described as the most distinguished British female composer of her generation.[2]

Born in San Pedro, California, Fransway was the oldest of six children born to Horace Robert Davis a

Born in San Pedro, California, Fransway was the oldest of six children born to Horace Robert Davis and Vernita Ethel Webster Davis. She attended Sacramento and Atascadero public schools

Was a Sri Lankan academic, journalist, poet, writer, playwright and writer of screenplays.Reginald S

Was a Sri Lankan academic, journalist, poet, writer, playwright and writer of screenplays.Reginald Siriwardena (known as 'Reggie' until the 1980s) was born in the Colombo suburb of Ratmalana to middle-class Sinhalese Buddhist parents. His Macaulay-quoting father sent him for his schooling first to St Thomas', Mt Lavinia where he found the Anglican elite colonial atmosphere uncomfortable. In his poem 'Colonial Cameo', he remembers the day his mother, who only spoke Sinhala, took him to school and said 'goodbye' in that tongue, to the amusement of his English-speaking classmates:

Is a Colombian writer.an Andean state in the Republic of Colombia, South America. She was initiated

Is a Colombian writer.an Andean state in the Republic of Colombia, South America. She was initiated into metaphysics at a very young age, when she realized that she could see peoples auras, and decipher their meanings. She also developed healing powers which she has used since then to heal people around the world. She has taught metaphysics in Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, United States, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, France and other countries.

Is a Russian poet and writer who has published twenty books of poetry, essays, and prose. Derieva cu

Is a Russian poet and writer who has published twenty books of poetry, essays, and prose. Derieva currently lives in Sweden.Derieva's work has been translated into several languages, including English, Swedish, Arabic, French, and Italian. A compact disc

Is a Brazilian author living in the United States. She is known for her prose fiction concerning urb

Is a Brazilian author living in the United States. She is known for her prose fiction concerning urbanism, transnational migration, and animal rights. Before becoming a writer, she had worked with film, video and television. She earned the Jabuti prize for literature (1995) with her debut collection of short stories Arca sem Noé - Histórias do Edifício Copan, which was translated by Adria Frizzi and REYoung as Stories From the Copan Building, and included in the volume First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix (University of Texas Press). The most substantial segment in this volume is the title piece, a novel of discovery translated by David Coles and volume editor Charles A. Perrone. Analysts have underlined wit and irony in her style. Rheda's work has interested scholars of Inter-American literature, Latin American literature, literature of Brazil, women writers, post-humanism, and veganism. The inspiration for the title of her most recent novel, Humana festa, is a line of an early vegetarian poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Who generally went by the name Hugh Hickling, was a British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law acad

Who generally went by the name Hugh Hickling, was a British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author.Educated at the University of Nottingham, Hickling joined the Colonial Legal Service and served in a variety of appointments. One of these was the Commissioner of Law Revision of Malaysia, in which capacity he drafted the Internal Security Act 1960 providing for the detention of persons without trial for, among other things, acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of Malaysia. Hickling later said that he did not expect the law to be used against political opponents or those dedicated to non-violent activities; however, he stopped short of calling for its repeal. After retiring as a civil servant, Hickling became a law academic, taking up teaching positions in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom, and writing books and law journal articles. Throughout his career he also authored novels and short stories.

Is an Egyptian blogger who rose to fame in 2008 when Dar al Shorouk, one of the most prominent Egypt

Is an Egyptian blogger who rose to fame in 2008 when Dar al Shorouk, one of the most prominent Egyptian publishing houses, published a collection of her blog posts in book form. She is an active blogger since November 2004.A graduate of Faculty of Arts (Kolleyyat al Aadaab) with a major in English [1], Bassam started to blog back in 2004, taking it "as a challenge", in her own words, when a friend of hers teased her online for not having a blog. Having a look at his, she realized that a blog is where an individual writes about his or her everyday routine, and she said to herself "It's no big deal, I too can do that". That very day she created a blog. [2]

Is a well-known journalist and author in Germany.[1] Until 1970, Reimar Oltmanns was involved in var

Is a well-known journalist and author in Germany.[1] Until 1970, Reimar Oltmanns was involved in various capacities with the Lower Saxony Young Democrats; afterwards he became President of this youth organisation, closely linked at this time to the FDP. H

Was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, g

Was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.Arenas was born in the countryside, in the northern part of the Province of Oriente, Cuba, and later moved to the city of Holgu

Is a conservative Brazilian journalist and columnist for Veja.[1]

Is a conservative Brazilian journalist and columnist for Veja.[1]

Was a German composer. He was born in Vélez, Santander and went to school in Breslau. In 1944 he be

Was a German composer. He was born in Vélez, Santander and went to school in Breslau. In 1944 he began his military service. After World War II he met Karl Amadeus Hartmann. From 1949 to 1953 he studied composition with Karl Höller at the Munich Academy for Musical Arts. In 1954 Paul Dessau took him to East Germany, where Bredemeyer became a master student of Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the Berlin Academy of the Arts.

Was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas, and in 1745 Jo

Was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas, and in 1745 Johann Adolph Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann (also related to the Hamburg Opera), but his work was largely forgotten for many decades. In 1694, he became court-composer to the duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, though he had probably come to the court already as early as 1692 to study its renowned operas, which had been going on since 1691, when the city had built a 1200-seater opera-house. Keiser put on his first opera Procris und Cephalus there and, the same year, his opera Basilius was put on at Hamburg and, as the musicologist Johann Mattheson noted, "received with great success and applause."

Was a German composer. The son of a chemical manufacturer, Schwarz-Schilling embarked upon his music

Was a German composer. The son of a chemical manufacturer, Schwarz-Schilling embarked upon his musical studies in 1922, first in Munich and later in Cologne, with several extended breaks in Italy. From 1927 to 1929, he studied under Heinrich Kaminski, who also taught Carl Orff. In 1938, he obtained a teaching position at the Musikhochschule in Berlin (now the Berlin University of the Arts).

Is a German conductor, pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. In 1982 he created a se

Is a German conductor, pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. In 1982 he created a sensation with Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly at the Komische Oper Berlin, and was immediately engaged there. He worked with directors and choreographers such as Harry Kupfer, Joachim Herz and Tom Schilling. In 1989 he became principal conductor and Artistic director of the opera house of Görlitz.

Is a Dutch television host, mc, radio dj, journalist and writer. He writes and interviews in English

Is a Dutch television host, mc, radio dj, journalist and writer. He writes and interviews in English, Spanish and Dutch and is also known as Q-Bah. He's had #1 hits in the Netherlands, Surinam and Curaçao. Next to his musical succes, Q-Bah's also known for his entertaining interviews with urban superstars, when they come to Holland. During the Gumball 3000 Q-Bah was the first reporter to talk to Xzibit on camera,

Is a Dutch author, poet and columnist

Is a Dutch author, poet and columnist

Was a noted Chinese composer of the early 20th century.Ren studied in Paris beginning in 1919, and t

Was a noted Chinese composer of the early 20th century.Ren studied in Paris beginning in 1919, and there acquired the techniques of music composition. As a consequence, his works are influenced by Western music, particularly in their harmonic accompaniment. Among his best known compositions are "Fishermen's Song" (???, Yú Guang Qu), which was used as the theme song for a film, and "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" (????, Cai Yún Zhui Yuè). He also invited the musician Huang Yijun (???) to compose "The Flowers are Blooming and the Moon is Full" (????), which was included on a 1935 recording Ren Guang supervised.

Is a Japanese journalist and politician who is currently a member of the upper house of the Diet of

Is a Japanese journalist and politician who is currently a member of the upper house of the Diet of Japan.

Is a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete

Is a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. She started working as a journalist for a magazine called Panorama and she published her first novel (Buitenstaanders) in 1983. Her sister's suicide has had a great influence on her books.

Was a German-Dutch writer, journalist and columnist.Following the Battle of the Netherlands, when Na

Was a German-Dutch writer, journalist and columnist.Following the Battle of the Netherlands, when Nazi Germany invaded and conquered the Netherlands in 1940, Rubinstein's father was arrested. He was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp near the end of World War II. This event was a determining factor in Rubinstein's life and work - she is said to have spent the rest of her life searching for a father-figure, and her bond with German-British sociologist Norbert Elias has been explained by some as proof for this.

Was an influential Filipino historian. He was a known leftist historian of the Philippines. He is th

Was an influential Filipino historian. He was a known leftist historian of the Philippines. He is the father-in-law of political commentator Randy David.

Is a French writer, born in 1946 in Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France. He

Is a French writer, born in 1946 in Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France. He spent some time studying in England and traveling in the US, particularly New York and California (he taught for a semester in a college in Arkansas). He quickly began to circulate among writers (Louis Aragon, Roland Barthes, Marguerite Duras, etc.) and visual artists (the Warhol circle, the New York School, Gilbert and George, etc.). He also circulated in gay communities and is an outspoken defender of gay rights,

Is a French composer. At the École Normale in Paris, Renaud Gagneux studied piano with Alfred Corto

Is a French composer. At the École Normale in Paris, Renaud Gagneux studied piano with Alfred Cortot and composition with Henri Dutilleux. In 1966 he went to Cologne to study composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen, then with André Jolivet and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory, where he won first prize in composition in 1972 (Weid 2001). In 1972 he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales de l'ORTF. His numerous prizes include the Sacem Grand Prix for chamber music (1977),