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Anastas Yanakiev
Anastas is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: * Benjamin Anastas (born 1969), American novelist, journalist and critic born in Gloucester, Massachusetts * Jonathan Anastas, Los Angeles-based advertising executive, musician, cofounded Boston hardcore punk bands * Paul Anastas, the Director of Yale University's Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering * Robert Anastas, former hockey coach and teacher at Wayland High School, in Wayland, Massachusetts Given name: * Anastas Al-Karmali (1866–1947), Lebanese Christian priest, known for his contributions to the field of Arabic linguistics * Anastas Avramidhi-Lakçe (1821–1890), Albanian businessman and benefactor * Anastas Byku (died 1878), Albanian publisher and journalist * Anastas Hanania (1899–1995), Jordanian-Palestinian lawyer, judge, official and diplomat * Anastas Ishirkov (1868–1937), Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer * Anastas Janullatos (born 1929), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Anastas
Benjamin Anastas (born 1969) is an American novelist, memoirist, journalist and book reviewer born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He teaches literature and writing at Bennington College and is on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program. Writing career Fiction Anastas started publishing his short fiction while still a graduate student at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. His first novel, ''An Underachiever's Diary'', is a comic send-up of the meritocracy narrated by the underachieving half of a set of identical twins, and is set in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On the jacket of Anastas's second book, ''The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance: A Novel'', Daniel Handler called it "hands down, the best novel of the year". It concerns the disappearance of the pastor of a liberal Congregational church in suburban Boston and was a ''The New York Times'' Notable Book. Journalism and other writings Anastas's fiction, criticism, essays and journalism have appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |