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De Harmonie
De Harmonie is a Dutch publishing company best known today as the publisher of the Harry Potter series of books since the 1990s, though their largest success didn't come until the 2000s and since 14 February 2008 they are located on Herengracht in Amsterdam. The company was founded in 1972 by Jaco Groot and his wife Elisabeth, and publishes 30-40 new titles per year, mostly visually-oriented material such as illustrated children's books, comics and art books, but also poetry and prose. Choices whom to publish are still made by the founders, though from an attic room on the Singel they have come a long way since Harry Potter. Other authors besides J.K. Rowling whose works they have published are Wim de Bie, Jan Blokker, Hugo Brandt Corstius, Arjan Ederveen, Karel Eykman, Jonas Geirnaert, Elma van Haren, Elke Heidenreich, Willem Frederik Hermans, Judith Herzberg, Isol, Freek de Jonge, Kamagurka, Hanco Kolk, Kees van Kooten, Kim van Kooten, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Potter
''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy literature, fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young Magician (fantasy), wizard, Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's struggle against Lord Voldemort, a Black magic, dark wizard who intends to become Immortality, immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic and subjugate all wizards and Muggles (non-magical people). The series was originally published in English by Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and Scholastic Corporation, Scholastic Press in the United States. All versions around the world are printed by Grafica Veneta in Italy. A series of many genres, including fantasy, drama, Coming-of-age story, coming-of-age fiction, and the British school story (which i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanco Kolk
Hanco Kolk (born 11 March 1957, Den Helder) is a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist. He is best known for his collaborations with Peter de Wit, with who he made '' Gilles de Geus'' and ''S1NGLE' Kolk married author Isabelle Rosselin in 2016. Biography Kolk made his debut in the Dutch underground comics magazine ''Tante Leny presenteert!''. In 1980 he was one of the founders of ''Studio Arnhem'', a collective of comics artists and writers. After working anonymous for the magazine ''Donald Duck'' for several years he went to the magazine '' Eppo'', where he made the humoristic historical adventure comics series '' Gilles de Geus'' together with Peter de Wit from 1983 to 2003. Kolk and De Wit often work together and have created comics such as the photo novel ''Mannetje & Mannetje'' (''Sidekicks'' in English; 1988), which was adapted into a TV sketch show for VPRO in 1989 and the gag-a-day comic ''S1NGLE'' (2001), which was also adapted for television as a sitcom on NET 5. The m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Portnoy
Ethel Portnoy (March 8, 1927 – May 25, 2004) was a Dutch writer of prose, who wrote essays, columns, short stories, travel stories and several novels. Biography Ethel Portnoy was born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Bronx in New York City as the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. She took classes in English literature in New York City and learned French in the United States, then departed to Europe in 1950 with a Fulbright for the University of Lyon. She also studied cultural anthropology and archeology in Paris, with Claude Lévi-Strauss amongst others. She married Dutch author Rudy Kousbroek (1929–2010) in 1951. She raised two children and until 1962 she worked at the UNESCO. She worked for Dutch papers and was published in ''Randstad'', in the weeklies ''Haagse Post'' and ''Vrij Nederland'' and also in the ''NRC Handelsblad''. The family moved to The Hague in 1970. In 1978 Portnoy and Hannemieke Stamperius founded the feminist literary journal ''Chrysallis''. Since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Pennac
Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni, born 1 December 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay '' Chagrin d'école''. Daniel Pennacchioni is the fourth and last son of a Corsican and Provençal family. His father was a '' polytechnicien'' who became an officer of the colonial army, reaching the rank of general at retirement and his mother, a housewife, was a self-taught reader. His childhood was spent wherever his father was stationed, in Africa (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Algeria, Equatorial Africa), Southeast Asia (Indochina) and France (including La Colle-sur-Loup). His father's love for poetry gave him a taste for books that he quickly devoured in the family library or at school After studying in Nice he became a teacher. He began to write for children, including his series "La Saga Malaussène", that tells the story of Benjamin Malaussène, a scapegoat, and his family in Belleville, Paris. In a 1997 piece for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carel Peeters
Carel Peeters (born 5 June 1944, in Nijmegen) is one of the leading Dutch literary critics and since 1973 a writer and editor at ''Vrij Nederland''. Peeters grew up in Nijmegen but moved, with his parents, to Amsterdam at age 14. In 1964 he enrolled at the University of Amsterdam to study literature, and began writing for the newspaper ''Het Parool''; he never attained his degree. In 1970 he was hired by ''Elsevier'', where he worked as the assistant of Wim Zaal, and in 1973 moved to ''Vrij Nederland'' (where he still works) and started their literary supplement, which in 1982 earned him an award from the Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, the Dutch trade organization for booksellers and publishers. From 1987 to 1992 he was a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam. Peeters published more than a dozen collections of essays, and was awarded the Dr. Wijnaendts Francken award for essays and literary criticism in 1985, and in 2008 the Jacobson Award, awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Mowll
Joshua Mowll (born 1970) is a British writer of children’s fiction. His award-winning '' The Guild of Specialists trilogy'' has been published in 20 countries worldwide. Mowll's book ''The Great Space Race'' was published in the UK on 2 August 2010 The Guild of Specialists trilogy outline The trilogy was the subject of an international bidding war in 2004. Publishers were sent boxes of artefacts and documents taken from an archive apparently bequeathed to Mowll by his recently deceased great aunt; the archive is said to have provided the material for the three books in The Guild of Specialists trilogy. Walker Books won the auction and ''Operation Red Jericho'' was published in 2005, followed by '' Operation Typhoon Shore'' in 2006, and ''Operation Storm City'' in 2008 (May 2009 in the USA). Mowll's books are unusual for having extensive colour illustrations linked to proper novel length plots. The writer's experience as a graphic artist for one of the UK's national newspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis (born September 15, 1962) is an American filmmaker and novelist. She is known for her films '' Angela'', '' Personal Velocity: Three Portraits'', ''The Ballad of Jack and Rose'', ''The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'', and ''Maggie's Plan'', all of which she wrote and directed, as well as her novels ''The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'' and ''Jacob's Folly''. Miller received the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for ''Personal Velocity'' and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director for ''Angela''. Miller is the daughter of Arthur Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and his third wife Inge Morath, a Magnum photographer. Early life Miller was born in Roxbury, Connecticut, to Arthur Miller, the dramatist, and Austrian-born Inge Morath, a photographer. Her younger brother, Daniel, was born in 1966. Her father was Jewish, whereas her mother was Protestant. For a time during childhood, Miller practiced Catholicism on h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McEwan
Ian Russell McEwan, (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, ''The Times'' featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. His first two novels, ''The Cement Garden'' (1978) and ''The Comfort of Strangers'' (1981), earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s. His novel ''Enduring Love'' was adapted into a film of the same name. He won the Booker Prize with ''Amsterdam'' (1998). His next novel, ''Atonement'', garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film featuring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. His later novels have included '' The Children Act'', ''Nutshell'', and ''Machines Like Me''. He was awarded the 1999 Shakespeare Prize, and the 2011 Jerusalem Prize. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colum McCann
Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in New York. He is a Thomas Hunter Writer in Residence at Hunter College, New York. McCann's work has been published in over 40 languages, and has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''New Yorker'', '' Esquire'', ''Paris Review'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Granta'', as well as other international publications. McCann is the author of seven novels, including ''TransAtlantic'' (2013) and the National Book Award-winning '' Let the Great World Spin'' (2009). He has also written three collections of short stories, including ''Thirteen Ways of Looking'', released in October 2015. Early life McCann was born in 1965 in Dublin and studied journalism in the former College of Commerce in Rathmines, which became part of the Dublin Institute of Technology and which became the Technological University Dublin in 2019. He became a reporter for ''The Irish Press'' Group, and had his own column ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Matsier
Nicolaas Matsier (born Krommenie, 25 May 1945) is a Dutch novelist. Nicolaas Matsier is a pseudonym of Tjit Reinsma. Prizes * 1987: Zilveren Griffel for ''Ida stak een zebra over''. * 1995: Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize for his novel '' Gesloten huis''. * 1995: Mekka Prize for ''Gesloten huis''. Trouw March 14, 1995 * 2005: E. du Perron Prize for ''Het achtenveertigste uur''.Eenvoudig, de duinen Trouw April 11, 2015 Bibliography (selection) * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Leavitt
David Leavitt (; born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist, short story writer, and biographer. Biography Leavitt was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Harold and Gloria Leavitt. Harold was a professor who taught at Stanford University and Gloria was a political activist. Leavitt graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English in 1983. After his first book's success, he spent much of the 1990s living in Italy working and restoring an old house in Semproniano in Tuscany with his partner. He has also taught at Princeton University. While a student at Yale, Leavitt published two stories in The New Yorker, "Territory" and "Out Here", both of which were included in his first collection, ''Family Dancing'' (nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award). Other published fiction includes the short-story collections ''A Place I've Never Been'', ''Arkansas: Three Novellas'' and ''The Marble Quilt'' and the novels ''The Lost Language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jhumpa Lahiri
Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" LahiriMinzesheimer, Bob ''USA Today'', August 19, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-04-13. (born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian. Her debut collection of short-stories ''Interpreter of Maladies'' (1999) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, '' The Namesake'' (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. ''The Namesake'' was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was made into a major motion picture. ''Unaccustomed Earth'' (2008) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, while her second novel, '' The Lowland'' (2013), was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. On January 22, 2015, Lahiri won the US$50,000 DSC Prize for Literature for ''The Lowland'' In these works, Lahiri explored the Indian-immigrant experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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