Peter Hamill

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Peter Hamill

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Peter Hammill

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Peter Hammill

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Pete Brown

(b 25 Dec. \'40, London) Poet, lyricist, singer, producer, percussionist. Active on London jazz-poetry scene early \'60s, then worked with Cream, writing lyrics for hits \'Sunshine Of Your Love\', \'White Room\', \'I Feel Free\', \'Politician\' etc which he said would pay the rent for the rest of his life. After Cream split \'68 he continued to work with Jack Bruce (see his entry), also his own Jazz Poetry \'66, A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The Dark \'69 (as Pete Brown and His Battered Ornaments, Chris Spedding on guitar), Things May Come And Things May Go, But The Art School Dance Goes On Forever \'72, and Thousands On A Raft \'70 (as Pete Brown and Piblokto, with Jim Mullen). He worked with other groups; an album of demos by Back To The Front was later issued. He co-led Bond and Brown with Graham Bond \'72 (see Bond\'s entry); was part-time A&R and producer for Deram \'73--5; well-received poetry album The Not Forgotten Association \'73 had backing incl. Viv Stanshall on tuba....

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Peter Beagle

Prozator, eseist, scenarist si cântăreț, Peter Beagle s-a născut în 1939 în Manhattan și a crescut în Bronx. Ca adolescent citea imens și scria poeme și povestiri. În 1955 a fost remarcat de editorul lui Seventeen Magazine și a câștigat, în urma unui concurs literar, o bursă de patru ani la Universitatea din Pittsburgh. In anii ’70, după ce a urmat cursurile unui atelier de creative writing la prestigioasa Stanford University, a hoinărit de a lungul și de a latul Statelor Unite pe un scuter. Tot în această perioada începe să scrie scenarii, fără să-și abandoneze vocația de cântăreț de muzica folk („Cântatul si spălatul vaselor sunt singurele lucruri pe care le-am făcut pentru bani“, avea el să declare). Și-a câștigat existența ca scriitor liber profesionist, cunoscând succesul în 1968, o data cu apariția cărții „Ultima licornă”, roman fantastic devenit clasic și tradus în peste douăzeci de limbi. A mai publicat volumele de povestiri „Rinocerii care citau din Nietzsche... și alte...

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Peter Weiss

Peter Ulrich Weiss (November 8, 1916 – May 10, 1982) was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his play Marat/Sade and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Weiss was born in Nowawes (now part of Potsdam-Babelsberg), Brandenburg, to a Hungarian Jewish father and Christian mother. At age three he moved with his family to Bremen, and then during his adolescence to Berlin where Weiss began training for a career as a visual artist. In 1934 he emigrated with his family to Chislehurst, near London, England, where he studied photography at the Polytechnic School of Photography, and then in 1937-1938 attended the Prague Art Academy. After the German occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938, his family moved to Sweden, and Weiss himself removed to Switzerland. In 1939 he again emigrated to Stockholm, Sweden, where he lived for the rest of his life. He became a Swedish citizen in 1946. Weiss was married three times: to the painter Helga...

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Peter Altenberg

Peter Altenberg, *09.03.1859, Wien; †08.01.1919, Wien Scriitor si poet vienez. Printre opere se numără: Wie ich es sehe (Cum văd lucrurile), Prodromos, Bilderbögen des kleinen Lebens (Foi ilustrate ale vieţii mărunte).

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