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Denys
Denys ( uk, Денис) is both a form of the given name Denis and a patronymic surname. Amongst others, it is a transliteration of the common Ukrainian name ''Денис''. Closely related forms are ''Denijs'' and ''Dénys''. Notable people with the name include: Given name Actors, artists, musicians, and writers * Denijs van Alsloot (c.1570–c.1626), Flemish landscape and genre painter * Denys Arcand (born 1941), Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer * Denys Baptiste (born 1969), English jazz musician * Denys Blakeway, British television producer * Denys Bouliane (born 1955), Canadian composer and conductor * Denys Cazet (born 1938), French-American author * Denys Cochin (1851–1922), French writer * Denys Colomb de Daunant (1922–2006), French writer, poet, photographer and filmmaker, * Denys Coop (1920–1981), British cinematographer * Denys Corbet (1826–1909), Channel Islands poet and painter * Denys Cowan (born 1961), African American comic book art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Baptiste
Denys Baptiste (born 1969) is an English jazz musician from London, England, where he was born to St Lucian parents. A graduate of Tomorrow's Warriors, Baptiste plays tenor and soprano saxophone in addition to composing. Baptiste played with Gary Crosby and Nu Troop, before releasing in 1999 his debut album ''Be Where You Are'', which was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize and won the MOBO award for Best Jazz Act 1999. Baptiste's third album ''Let Freedom Ring!'' was nominated for the MOBO award for Best Jazz Act 2004, the BBC Jazz Awards for Best New Work and Best Album 2004, and the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Album 2004. As a soloist, Baptiste has recorded and played with many prominent international musicians, including McCoy Tyner, Ernest Ranglin, Bheki Mseleku, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Michael Bowie, Courtney Pine, Manu Dibango, Steve Williamson, Julian Joseph, Jason Rebello, Lonnie Plaxico, Ralph Moore, Billy Higgins, Jerry Dammers, Jean Carne, Marlena Shaw, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Arcand
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand (; born June 25, 1941) is a French Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His film ''The Barbarian Invasions'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three further times, including two nominations in the same category for ''The Decline of the American Empire'' in 1986 and ''Jesus of Montreal'' in 1989, becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and, subsequently, to have a film win the award. Also for ''The Barbarian Invasions'', he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, losing to Sofia Coppola for '' Lost in Translation''. During his four decades career, he became the most globally recognized director from Quebec, winning many awards from the Cannes Film Festival, including the Best Screenplay Award, the Jury Prize, and many other prestigious awards worldwide. He won three César Awards in 2004 for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Irving
Denys George Irving (1944-1976), was born on 4 January 1944 in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. Biography He grew up in South London and was educated at Dulwich College (1954–1961), where he was awarded the Fawkes Memorial Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford (1962), where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After graduating in 1966 he went on to study at the London School of Economics, and was a graduate student in the Philosophy Ph.D. program at Columbia University, New York. Whilst at Columbia in 1968, Denys was actively involved in student politics, notably during the student demonstrations in May, when he was prominent among a large number of students who occupied Fairweather Hall. It was at Columbia that Denys became interested in artificial intelligence and started working with computers. In December 1968 he wrote to his parents: "I have been working with computers this term and I have made pretty good progress so far and my plan is to try to get accepted by the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Cowan
Denys B. Cowan (born January 30, 1961) is an American comics artist, television producer, media executive and one of the co-founders of Milestone Media. Early life Denys Cowan was first inspired by superheroes as a child from reruns of the 1950s TV show ''Adventures of Superman (TV series), Adventures of Superman'' with George Reeves. He did not yet know what a comic book was, and would not learn about them until the third grade. After Cowan's mother died, he moved in with his grandparents, and attended school in that district, where he met a future fellow comics creator, Derek Dingle, who drew comics with his brother. Dingle showed Cowan his first comic book, an issue of Jack Kirby's ''New Gods''.Cowan, Denys (December 2018). "How I broken into comics with...Denys Cowan", ''DC Nation'' #5, Page 2, DC Comics (Burbank, California). Cowan attended the High School of Art and Design in New York City. One day in the school lunchroom, the 14-year-old Cowan met someone who worked for arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Val Baker
Denys Val Baker (24 October 1917 – 6 July 1984) was a Welsh writer, specialising in short stories, novels, and autobiography. He was also known for his activities as an editor, and promotion of the arts in Cornwall. Early years Born Denys Baker in Poppleton, York, North Riding of Yorkshire on 24 October 1917 where his father, Welsh born Valentine Henry Baker, was stationed as a pilot instructor during World War I. His mother was Dilys Eames, who was from Anglesey in North Wales and had played harp at the National Eisteddfod of 1901. He grew up in Sussex and eventually lived with his parents in Surbiton, then in Surrey, now in Greater London. Val Baker was always proud of being of Celtic ancestry; he considered himself to be more Welsh than English, and this was an influence in his writings. A lifelong pacifist and vegetarian, he registered as a conscientious objector in June 1939, prior to World War II, and volunteered to join a group of some 200 COs sailing to Jersey in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Puech
Denys Puech (3 December 1854, Gavernac, Bozouls, Aveyron – December 1942, Rodez, Aveyron) was a French sculptor. Biography From a family of farmers (his brother was Louis Puech, Député for the Seine Department from 1898 to 1932, and Minister of Public Works from 3 November 1910 to 27 February 1911), he began as an apprentice in the marble workshop of François Mahoux in Rodez. In 1872, after two years training, he pursued an apprenticeship in Paris in the workshop of François Jouffroy then of Alexandre Falguière and Henri Chapu, at the same time following an evening course at the Beaux-Arts. 1881 and 1883 saw his first successes, when he twice won the second prize in the prix de Rome contest, for his ''Tyrtaeus singing the Messanians'' (''Tyrtée chantant les Messéniennes'') and '' Diagoras dying for joy on learning of his two victorious children's triumph at the Olympic Games'' (''Diagoras mourant de joie en apprenant le triomphe de ses deux enfants vainqueurs aux Jeu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Corbet
Denys Corbet (22 May 1826 – 21 April 1909) was a Guernsey poet, naïve painter, and schoolmaster, the second son of Pierre Corbet, a seafarer, and Susanne ('' née'' de Beaucamp). He was born at La Turquie, Vale, Guernsey, Channel Islands and is thought to have lost his parents in childhood. He married, probably in 1852, Mary "Elizabeth" Wellington (1833–1909) and had six children. Corbet wrote, for the most part, in the Dgèrnésiais or Guernsey French language. "Last Poet" Corbet described himself as the ''Le Draïn Rimeux'' (The Last Poet). He is best known for his poems, notably the epic ''L'Touar de Guernesy'', a picaresque tour of the parishes of Guernsey, ''Les Feuilles de la Fôret'' (The Leaves of the Forest, 1871), and ''Les Chànts du drain rimeux, ou Pièces de poësie originale en guernesiais et en français'' (Songs of the Last Rhymer, or Original Pieces of Poetry in Dgèrnésiais and French, 1884).British Library Main CataloguRetrieved 7 August 2016./ref> As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Lasdun
Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, CH, CBE, RA (8 September 1914, Kensington, London – 11 January 2001, Fulham, London) was an eminent English architect, the son of Nathan Lasdun (1879–1920) and Julie ('' née'' Abrahams; 1884–1963). Probably his best known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the Thames, which is a Grade II* listed building and one of the most notable examples of Brutalist design in the United Kingdom. Lasdun studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and was a junior in the practice of Wells Coates. Like other Modernist architects, including Sir Basil Spence and Peter and Alison Smithson, Lasdun was much influenced by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but there was a gentler, more classical influence, too, from the likes of Nicholas Hawksmoor. Lasdun was elected a Royal Academician on 29 May 1991. Family Lasdun's grandfather, the Australia-based tobacconist Louis Abrahams (1852–1903), was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Cochin
Baron Denys Marie Pierre Augustin Cochin (1 September 1851 in Paris – 24 March 1922 in Paris) was a French writer and Catholic right-wing politician. Denys Cochin was the son of Pierre-Suzanne-Augustin Cochin, also a politician and writer. After graduating from the school Louis-le-Grand, he joined the military as a quartermaster in the eight cuirassier, before becoming flag carrier for General Charles Denis Bourbaki. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, he was an attache in the embassy in London for a year. Returning to France in 1872, he undertook studies in chemistry in the laboratory of Louis Pasteur. During World War I, he worked on the development of explosives and chemical weapons. In 1881 he was elected councilman of the 7th arrondissement of Paris. From 1893 to 1919, he represented Paris in the French National Assembly. He was the principal spokesman of the Catholic party defending the religious educational liberties and congregations against the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Desjardins
Denys Desjardins (born 1966 in Montreal, Quebec), is a film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and film historian for more than twenty years. After completing studies in literature, film and communications, he directed several acclaimed films. Career Desjardins received the Quebec Film Critic (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma, or AQCC) award for best short film two years in a row for ''La Dame aux poupées'' (''The Doll Lady'') (1996) and for ''Boris Lehman, filmmaker'' (1997), a portrait of Boris Lehman the Belgian filmmaker for whom life is a reason to make films, and making films is a reason for living. He then joined the National Film Board of Canada, where he directed '' Almanach 1999-2000'' and '' My Eye for a Camera'' – nominated for a Jutra Award for best documentary in 2003 – as well as '' Being Human'' and '' Rebel with a Camera'', which won him the Quebec Film Critic award for best medium-length documentary. Desjardins has also prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Bouliane
Denys Bouliane (born May 8, 1955) is a Canadian composer and conductor. He is a Professor of Composition at McGill University. Early life and education Bouliane was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec. He is a graduate of Laval University (B.Mus 1977 and M.Mus in 1979). He studied music composition in the Neue Musik Theater class of Mauricio Kagel in Cologne followed by studies with György Ligeti until 1985. Career In 1987 Bouliane was awarded the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for ''À propos... et le baron perché''. Bouliane was composer in residence from 1992 - 1995 for l' Orchestre Symphonique de Québec and between 1995 and 1996 for the Heidelberg Philharmonisches Orchester. In 1995 he became Professor of composition at McGill University. In 1997 Bouliane became the director and conductor of the Contemporary Music Ensemble. In the 1990s he organized the festivals Montréal Nouvelles-Musiques and MusiMars. In 2003 Bouliane was composer-in residence at the Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Colomb De Daunant
Albin Théodore Denys Colomb de Daunant (21 November 1922 – 22 March 2006) was a French writer, poet, photographer and filmmaker, best known for his work on the multi-award-winning 1953 short film ''White Mane''. An aristocrat and modern dandy, he was an iconic figure of France's rural Camargue region. Biography The son of Auguste Colomb de Daunant and L. Carenou1, Denys Colomb de Daunant was born into a Protestant family in the Gard department of southern France."Denys Colomb de Daunant", Au Diable Vauvert'' The Colomb de Daunants were major landowners and ran a number of traditional ''Mas (Provençal farmhouse), mas'' and factories. During the Second World War, he had to flee France for having insulted a German officer. He attempted to rejoin the Free French Forces in Morocco, but was captured while crossing the Pyrenees and imprisoned. Returning to the Camargue in 1947, at the age of 25, he purchased the Cacharel ''mas'' in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, where he was to live for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
