Jose Saramago

José Saramago (n. 16 noiembrie 1922 Azinhaga ) este un scriitor portughez. În 1998 a primit Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură. Saramago reușește să construiască pe teme deseori suprarealiste (de exemplu desprindera peninsulei iberice de continentul european), romane cu o acțiune și cu protagoniști foarte din realitate! Romanul Ensaio sobre a cegueira ( Eseu asupra Orbirii sau Orașul Orbilor ) conține în detaliu aspectele pshihologice și sociologice ale comportamentului uman, într-o anumită situație. O parte din romanele lui descriu diferite epoci istorice ale Portugaliei, însă nu sunt în primul rând romane istorice, ci caracterizări, uneori ironice, alteori triste, de destine umane. Saramago afirmă despre sine că este ateu și comunist. Josè Saramago s-a născut în 1922 într-un sat din provincia Ribatejo, unde apare în registrul de nașteri ca José de Sousa Saramago. În 1924 pleacă cu părinții José de Souse și Maria da Piedale la Lisabona. Aici moare fratele lui, Francisco. Deoarece...

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Jose Eduardo Mendes Camargo

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (n. 30 decembrie 1865 Bombay, India - d. 18 ianuarie 1936) poet și prozator britanic, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în anul 1907. Este celebru prin povestirea sa pentru copii "Cartea Junglei" (1894), romanul indian de spionaj "Kim" (1901), poemele "Gunga Din" (1892) și "If— " (1895), numeroase schițe și nuvele. În 1934 i s-a acordat, alături de William Butler Yeats, Premiul Gothenburg pentru Poezie. În timpul vieții, a fost considerat, îndeobște, poet și i s-a oferit un titlu nobiliar și postul de poet laureat – ambele refuzate de Kipling. Kipling s-a născut la Bombay, India. Tatăl său a fost John Lockwood Kipling, profesor Școala de artă Jeejeebhoy, iar mama sa, Alice Macdonald. Se spune că părinții săi s-au cunoscut la Lacul Rudyard din Staffordshire, în Anglia, aceasta fiind originea prenumelui lui Kipling. În copilărie a fost trimis în Anglia unde a fost crescut de o femeie numită doamna Holloway. Se presupune că lipsurile și proasta îngrijire...

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José Maria de Heredia

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José Asunción Silva

Nascut la Bogota, oras in care s-a si sinucis in 1896, Jose Asuncion Silva are o biografie plina de neprevazut si contardictii. Jurnalist, afacerist- falimentand afacerile de familie, secretar de legatie, sunt cateva repere din biografia poetului, caruia marea i-a inghit manuscrise, cu ocazia naufragiului vaporului Amerique, petrecut in 1895. Engleză José Asunción Silva (November 27, 1865 in Bogotá – May 23, 1896 in Bogotá) was a Colombian poet. He is considered one of the founders of Spanish-American Modernism. Born into a wealthy and cultured Bogotá family, Silva led a carefree life, traveling to England, Switzerland, and France in his early adulthood. However, with the death of his father and the increasing financial struggles his family experienced thereafter, Silva was forced to return to Colombia. Incapable of paying his family's enormous debts, Silva accepted a diplomatic position in Caracas. While there, he was encouraged by fellow writers to pursue his poetry. In 1895,...

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Joseph Louis Vance

Louis Joseph Vance was born on September 19, 1879 in New York, New York (although some sources say Washington, DC). He was an American fiction writer of short stories, novels and screenplays. Vance was the son of Wilson and Lillie Beall Vance. Originally, Vance wanted to become an artist and illustrator and attended the Art Students League and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Vance married Nance Elizabeth Hodges in 1898. They had one son, Wilson Beall Vance who was born the following year. Vance was 26 years old when his first book,Terence O\'Rourke,Gentlema Adventurer was published in 1905. Vance was a \"hack\" writer for many years producing hundreds of short stories and some adventure novels until he published a group of three mystery novels which promoted him to best-selling author status. The novels were: The Brass Bowl (1907) about a beautiful young girl, who in order to help her grieving father,becomes a burglar and meets a professional burglar who resembles the identical twin...

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Joseph Jacobs

Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 - 30 January 1916) was a literary and Jewish historian. He was a writer for the Jewish Encyclopaedia and a notable folklorist, creating several noteworthy collections of fairy tales. Jacobs was born in Sydney,Australia, the son of John and Sarah Jacobs. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, where he won a scholarship for classics, mathematics and chemistry. He did not complete his studies in Sydney, but left for England at the age of 18 and entered St John's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1876, and in 1877 studied at the University of Berlin. He was secretary of the Society of Hebrew Literature from 1878 to 1884, and in 1882 came into prominence as the writer of a series of articles in The Times on the persecution of Jews in Russia. This led to the formation of the mansion house fund and committee, of which Jacobs was secretary from 1882 to 1900. During these years he gave much time to anthropological studies...

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José Lezama Lima

José Lezama Lima (19 decembrie, 1910 în Havana, Cuba - 8 august, 1976 în Havana, Cuba) a fost un romancier ți poet cubanez. Born in the Columbia Military Encampment close to Havana in the city of Marianao where his father was a colonel, Lezama lived through the most turbulent times of Cuba's history, fighting first against the Machado dictatorship, and later surviving the Castro regime. A gay man himself,[1] his literary output includes the semi-autobiographical, baroque novel Paradiso (1966), the story of a young man and his struggles with his mysterious illness, the death of his father, and his developing homosexuality and poetic sensibilities. Lima also edited several anthologies of Cuban poetry and the magazines Verbum and Orígenes, presiding as the patriarch of Cuban letters for most of his later years. In addition to his poems and novels, Lezama wrote many essays on figures of world literature like Mallarmé, Valéry, Góngora and Rimbaud as well as on Latin American baroque...

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