Aime Fernand Cesaire

S-a născut în 1913 la Laurain, în Martinica. Studii la liceul Louis le Grand și la Ecole Normale Superieure. Activist pentru renasterea culturala a negrilor, care, în spațiul cultural de limbă franceză, s-a numit "Negritude". Membru al partidului comunist francez și apoi întemeitor al partidului progresist din Martinica. Membru in paralmentul francez și primar în orașul Fort-de-France din Martinica. Impreuna cu Damas si Senghor a intemeiat revista L'etudiant noir. In Martinica, impreuna cu Rene Menil, a inițiat revista Tropiques. Opere poetice: Cahier d'un retours au pazs natal, 1939 Les armes miraculeuses, 1946 Soleil cou coupe, 1948 Corps perdu, 1950 Ferrements, 1960 Cadastre, 1961 Moi laminaire, 1982 La poesie, 1994 A scris și drame. Cea mai cunoscută e La tragedie du roi Cristophe, 1964. De asemenea a mai scris și eseuri politice.

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Édouard Glissant

Edouard Glissant (born in Sainte-Marie, Martinique in 1928) is a French writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as being one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary. He studied at the Lycée Schoelcher, named after the abolitionist Victor Schoelcher, where the poet Aimé Césaire had studied and had come back to as a teacher. Césaire had met Léon Damas there; later in Paris they would join with Léopold Senghor, a poet and the future first president of Senegal, to formulate and promote the conecpt of négritude. Césaire did not teach Glissant, but did serve as an inspiration to him; another student at the school at that time was Franz Fanon. Glissant left Martinique in 1946 for Paris, where he received his PhD, having studied ethnography at the Musée de l'Homme and History and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He established, with Paul Niger, the separatist Front Antillo-Guyanais pour l'Autonomie party in 1959, as a result of which Charles...

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Mario Luzi

Mario Luzi è nato il 20 ottobre 1914 a Firenze. Docente di letteratura francese all'Università di Firenze. Il 14 ottobre 2004 è stato nominato senatore a vita dal presidente della Repubblica Italiana (Ciampi). E' morto a Firenze il 28 febbraio 2005. Ha esordito come poeta nel 1935 con la prima raccolta La barca, cui fece seguito Avvento notturno (1940), testo esemplare dell'ermetismo fiorentino. La sua produzione poetica successiva fu foltissima, a scandire le tappe di un itinerario poetico tra i più ricchi e coerenti del XX secolo italiano: Un brindisi (1946), Quaderno gotico (1947), Primizie del deserto (1952), Onore del vero (1957), Il giusto della vita (1960) comprendente tutte le poesie composte fino a quell'anno, Nel magma (1963), Dal fondo delle campagne (1965), Su fondamenti invisibili (1971), Al fuoco della controversia (1978), Per il battesimo dei nostri frammenti (1985), Frasi e incisi di un canto salutare (1990), Viaggio terrestre e celeste di Simone Martini (1994). Tema...

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Martin Luther King

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Martin Booth

Martin Booth (7 September 1944 - 12 February 2004) was a prolific British novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press Booth was born in Lancashire, but was brought up mainly in Hong Kong, which he left in 1964. Paper Pennies and Other Poems (1967) Supplication to the Himalayas. A Poem and Sketch (1968) In the Yenan Caves (1969) A Winnowing of Silence (1971) (poems) Pilgrims and Petitions (1971) The Crying Embers (1971) (poems) On the Death of Archdeacon Broix (1971) James Elroy Flecker, Unpublished Poems and Drafts (1971) (editor) White (1971) In Her Hands (1973) (poem) Teller: Four Poems (1973) Brevities (1974) (poems) Hands Twining Grasses (1974) (poems) Spawning The Os (1974) Yogh (1974) (poems) Snath (1975) Two Boys and a Girl, Playing in a Churchyard (1975) (poem) Stalks of Jade: Renderings of early Chinese erotic verse (1976) Horse and Rider, a poem (1976) The Book of Cats (1977) (editor with George MacBeth) Extending...

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