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Fred A. Reed
Fred A. Reed (born 1939) is a journalist, author and translator born in the United States who has published and translated several books. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, for his translations of works by Thierry Hentsch and Martine Desjardins, and received six further shortlisted nominations. Books *''Persian postcards: Iran after Khomemi''. Talonbooks. 1994. *''Salonica terminus:Travels into the Balkan Nightmare'' Talonbooks, 1996. *''Anatolia junction: A journey into hidden Turkey''. Talonbooks. 1999. * Massoumeh Ebtekar and Fred A. Reed ''Takeover in Tehran: the inside story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy capture'' Talonbooks. 2000. *''Shattered images: the rise of militant iconoclasm in Syria''. Talonbooks. 2003. * Jean-Daniel Lafond, and Fred A. Reed ''Conversations in Tehran'' Talonbooks, 2006. Translations * Martine Desjardins, translated from French by Fred A. Reed and David Homel David Homel (born 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. Journalistic media include print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels. The appropriate role for journalism varies from countries to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech, freedom of the press as well as slander and libel cases. The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talonbooks
Talonbooks is an independent publisher of Canadian literature based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its repertoire features authors writing in the literary genres of poetry, fiction and drama, as well as non-fiction books in the fields of ethnography, environmental and social issues, cultural studies, and literary criticism. Notable Talonbooks authors include Michel Tremblay, George Ryga, bpNichol, George Bowering, bill bissett, Daphne Marlatt, George F. Walker, M.A.C. Farrant and Mary Meigs. The company started as a magazine called ''Talon'' in 1963. It was run by David Robinson and some of his high-school friends. It later incorporated Jim Brown, who acted as both a writer and editor for the publication. Talon later joined with a small local press called Very Stone House and published its first string of poetry books in 1967. The association with Very Stone House ended a year later, and the Talonbooks imprint started appearing by itself. In 1969, with the addition of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Award For French To English Translation ...
This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for French-to-English translation. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References {{Governor General's Literary Awards * Translation awards Awards established in 1987 1987 establishments in Canada Translation Translation is the communication of the Meaning (linguistic), meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry Hentsch
Thierry Hentsch (August 7, 1944 – July 7, 2005) was a Swiss-Canadian philosopher and political scientist."Obituary: Thierry Hentsch". ''Montreal Gazette'', July 17, 2005. He is most noted for his books ''Raconter et mourir : aux sources narratives de l’imaginaire occidental'', which won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 2003 Governor General's Awards, and ''Le temps aboli: l’Occident et ses grands récits'', which was a nominee in the same category at the 2006 Governor General's Awards. Translator Fred A. Reed was also a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation for his English translations of Hentsch's works, winning at the 1992 Governor General's Awards for ''Imagining the Middle East'' (''L'Orient imaginaire'') and at the 2005 Governor General's Awards for ''Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition'' (''Raconter et mourir''), and was a shortlisted finalist at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massoumeh Ebtekar
Masoumeh Ebtekar ( fa, معصومه ابتکار; born 21 September 1960) was the former Vice President of Iran for Women and Family Affairs, from August 9, 2017, to September 1, 2021. She previously headed Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005, making her the first female member in the cabinet of Iran since 1979 and the third in history. She held the same level of office from 2013 to 2017. She is a full professor at Tarbiat Modares University in the School of Medical Sciences, Immunology Department. Ebtekar was nicknamed "Mary", when she was the spokeswoman of the students who took hostages and occupied the US Embassy in 1979. Later she became the head of the Environment Protection Organization of Iran during the administration of President Mohammad Khatami, and was a city councilwoman of Tehran from 2007 to 2013. Education and family Ebtekar was born in Tehran as Masoumeh, Niloufar Ebtekar in a middle-class family. Her first name translates to "Innocent Water Lily" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Daniel Lafond
Jean-Daniel Lafond (born 18 August 1944) is a French-born Canadian filmmaker, teacher of philosophy, and the husband to the former Governor General Michaëlle Jean, making him the Viceregal Consort of Canada during her service. Biography Lafond was born in France during the liberation of Paris from the Nazis. After attending the class of Michel Foucault and Michel Serres, he taught philosophy from 1971 "while pursuing research in audio-visual training and communications". In 1974 Lafond left France for Quebec and became a Canadian citizen in 1981. After teaching at the Université de Montréal he left the university to focus on film-making, radio and writing. From his first marriage Lafond has two daughters, as well as two grandchildren. With his current wife, former Governor General Michaëlle Jean, he has an adopted daughter. Books * ''Images d'un doux ethnocide'', with Arthur Lamothe, Montréal, Ateliers audio-visuels du Québec, 1979. * ''Vidéo-communication'', with Clair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Homel
David Homel (born 1952) is an American-Canadian writer and literary translator.Ian McGillis"Montreal's David Homel counsels self-forgiveness in new memoir" ''Montreal Gazette'', April 23, 2021. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, winning the award at the 1995 Governor General's Awards for ''Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?'', his translation of Dany Laferrière's ''Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?'', and alongside Fred A. Reed at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for ''Fairy Ring'', their translation of Martine Desjardins' ''Le Cercle de Clara''. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Homel moved to Canada in 1975, first taking a master's at the University of Toronto before settling in Montreal in 1980.Janice Kennedy, "A Novel Love; Two writers live happily ever after - together". ''Montreal Gazette'', November 7, 1988. He is married to children's writer Marie-Louis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulos Matesis
Paulos is a name which can serve as a given name and as a surname. People with the given name *Paulos Faraj Rahho (1942–2008), Iraqi archbishop *Paulos Gregorios, ''born Paul Varghese or Vargīsa Pôla'' (1922–1996), Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church bishop *Paulos Mantovanis (1945–2011), Eastern Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Kyrenia, Cyprus *Paulos Tesfagiorgis, Eritrean human rights activist * Paulos Tzadua (1921–2003), Ethiopian Cardinal People with the surname *Abune Paulos (1935–2012), Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church *Eric Paulos (born 1969), American computer scientist and roboticist * John Allen Paulos (born 1945), American professor of mathematics * Shimun XX Paulos (1885–1920), Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East *Nick Paulos Nicholas Peter Paulos (born February 26, 1992) is a Greek American professional basketball player for Psychiko of the Greek A2 Basket League. Paulos played college basketball at the University of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Births
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to work with Germans. *** The Youth Protection Act was passed on April 30, 1938 and the Working Hours Regulations came into effect. *** The Jews name change decree has gone into effect. ** The rest of the world *** In Spain, it becomes a duty of all young women under 25 to complete compulsory work service for one year. *** First edition of the Vienna New Year's Concert. *** The company of technology and manufacturing scientific instruments Hewlett-Packard, was founded in a garage in Palo Alto, California, by William (Bill) Hewlett and David Packard. This garage is now considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. *** Sydney, in Australia, records temperature of 45 ˚C, the highest record for the city. *** Philipp Etter took over as Swi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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