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Mladen Urem
Mladen Urem (born 16 April 1964) is a literary critic, author and editor. Urem was born in Rijeka, Croatia, where he received his BSc in radiology from the Medical School in Rijeka and also a B. A. in the Croatian language and literature from the Faculty of Philosophy. During 1980–82, he was a singer and a guitarist with a new-wave & punk rock group Istočni izlaz (The Eastern Exit). His name appears in ''The Little Encyclopaedia of Croatian Pop and Rock Music'' (1994). He was the literary editor of the ''Val'' journal (''The Wave'', 1985–1989), founder and editor-in-chief of the ''Rival'' literary magazine (1988–2000) and also of the ''Biblioteka Val'' — an original titles series (since 1987). He co-founded the philological magazine ''Fluminensia'' (1989), founded and served as the editor-in-chief in the ''Sušačka revija'' culture magazine (1993–1995) and as the editor-in-chief of the journal called ''Dometi'' (1996). In the war-edition of the ''Rival'' (1-4/1991), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rijeka
Rijeka ( , , ; also known as Fiume hu, Fiume, it, Fiume ; local Chakavian: ''Reka''; german: Sankt Veit am Flaum; sl, Reka) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and in 2021 had a population of 108,622 inhabitants. Historically, because of its strategic position and its excellent deep-water port, the city was fiercely contested, especially between the Holy Roman Empire, Italy and Croatia, changing rulers and demographics many times over centuries. According to the 2011 census data, the majority of its citizens are Croats, along with small numbers of Serbs, Bosniaks and Italians. Rijeka is the main city and county seat of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The city's economy largely depends on shipbuilding (shipyards "3. Maj" and "Viktor Lenac Shipyard") and maritime transport. Rijeka hosts the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 12 ** Zanzibar Revolution: The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Lucy Angela Hughes-Hallett (born 7 December 1951) is a British cultural historian, biographer and novelist. In November 2013, she won the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction for her biography of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, ''The Pike''. The book also won the 2013 Costa Book Award (Biography) and the Duff Cooper Prize. Biography Lucy Hughes-Hallett has written three works of nonfiction: ''Cleopatra'', ''Heroes'' and ''The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio''. She has also written a novel, ''Peculiar Ground'', set partly in the 1660s and partly during the Cold War. In her collection of short stories, ''Fabulous'', she reimagines stories from classical mythology, the Bible, and folklore, setting them in modern Britain. Hughes-Hallett was a Vogue Talent Contest prizewinner in 1973 and subsequently worked for five years as a feature writer on the magazine. In 1978 she won the Catherine Pakenham Award for Young Female Journalists for a profile of Roald Dahl. Since then she has wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bingham (writer)
Robert Worth Bingham IV (March 14, 1966 – November 28, 1999) was an American writer and a founding editor of the '' Open City Magazine''. Early life A member of a wealthy family from Louisville, Kentucky, his great-grandfather was the politician and newspaper publisher Robert Worth Bingham, and his grandfather, Barry Bingham, Sr., went into the family newspaper businesses as an editor and publisher. Bingham's father, Robert Worth Bingham III (known by his middle name), who also worked in the family business and was expected to take over, was killed aged 34 in a car accident while on vacation at Cape Cod in 1966, when his son was only three months old. Bingham graduated from Brown University in 1988. He then received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. Career After graduating from Columbia, his fiction and non-fiction appeared in ''The New Yorker'', and he worked for two years as a reporter for the '' Cambodia Daily''. He wrote the short story collection ''Pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Phillips (editor)
William Phillips (November 14, 1907 – September 13, 2002) was an American editor, writer and public intellectual who co-founded ''Partisan Review''. Together with co-editor Philip Rahv, Phillips made Partisan Review into one of the foremost journals of politics, literature, and the arts, particularly from the 1930s through the 1950s. In all, Phillips headed up the publication for six decades. He was the last surviving member of the first generation of The New York Intellectuals, which The Guardian described as "that brilliant and cantankerous group who 'argued the world' for decades." Life Phillips was born in New York City. His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine. Taken back to Russia from ages 1 to 4, he was raised in East Bronx. Phillips earned a B.A. from City College, which he called "the poor boy's steppingstone to the world." There he studied philosophy and came to admire the modernist movement in literature. He also took graduate literature courses and ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Treisman
Deborah Treisman (born 1970) is the Fiction Editor for ''The New Yorker''. Treisman also hosts craft conversations with ''The New Yorker'' short fiction contributors discussing their favorite stories from the magazine's archives in the ''Fiction'' podcast, and authors reading their own recently-published work in ''The Writer's Voice'' podcast''.'' Early life and education Treisman was born in Oxford, England and spent her first years in England. She grew up in a family of scholars. Her mother was the noted cognitive psychologist Anne Treisman. Her stepfather, Daniel Kahneman, won a Nobel prize in economic science. When Treisman was eight, her family relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia. Treisman submitted her own writing to ''The New Yorker'' at the age of 11. Her submission was rejected. She began her studies at the University of California at Berkeley at the age of 16 and went on to earn her degree in Comparative Literature. Career In 2003, Treisman took the helm of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
