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Serif (publisher)
Serif is an independent book publishing house based in London, UK, founded in 1992 by Stephen Hayward (1954–2015), who had previously been an editor with Lawrence & Wishart.Michèle Roberts"Obituary: Stephen Hayward (1954-2015)" ''The Bookseller'', 27 November 2015. The company's list covers the subjects of history, politics, travel, culture and fiction, with book jackets — described as "works of art in themselves"Michael Eaude"Stephen Hayward obituary" ''The Guardian'', 20 November 2015. — designed by Pentagram Berlin. Alongside original titles, reissues feature prominently in Serif's output, including Evelyn Waugh's 1932 account of his travels in Guiana and Brazil, ''92 Days'' (with an afterword by Pauline Melville), George Dangerfield's ''The Strange Death of Liberal England'', Norman Cohn's ''Warrant for Genocide'', Jorge Semprún's ''The Cattle Truck'', works by J. M. Synge, as well as significant cookery books such as '' The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook'' and the Glenfid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OR Books
OR Books is a New York City-based independent publishing house founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson in 2009. The company sells digital and print-on-demand books directly to the customer and focuses on creative promotion through traditional media and the Internet. On its site, OR Books states that it "embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business." Not long after its founding in 2009, OR Books became known for publishing '' Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare'', a parody of Palin's autobiography '' Going Rogue: An American Life''. ''Going Rouge'' became a best-seller as per ''The New York Times''. Since then the company has published books by Julian Assange, Moustafa Bayoumi, Medea Benjamin, Patrick Cockburn, Sue Coe, Simon Critchley, Lisa Dierbeck, Ariel Dorfman, Norman Finkelstein, Laura Flanders, Chris Lehmann, Gordon Lish, Bill McKibben, Eileen Myles, Yoko Ono, Barney Rosset, Douglas Rushkoff, Elissa Shevinsky, Burhan Sönmez, Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Cohn
Norman Rufus Colin Cohn British Academy, FBA (12 January 1915 – 31 July 2007) was a British Academia, academic, historian and writer who spent 14 years as a professorial fellow and as Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex. Life Cohn was born in London, to a German Jewish father and a Catholic mother. He was educated at Gresham's School"Norman Cohn: Historian who drew parallels between apocalyptic medieval movements and Marxism and Nazism", obituary in ''The Guardian'', 9 August 2007. and Christ Church, Oxford. According to the Italian scholar Lorenzo Ferrari, "Cohn grew up feeling ‘a man between all worlds’ with his German-Jewish surname, his mother’s Catholic faith (although she never had him baptised), and his numerous German relatives". He was a scholar and research student at Christ Church between 1933 and 1939, taking a first-class degree in Modern Languages in 1936 (French) and in 1939 (German). He served for six years in the British Army, being commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Rudé
George Rudé (8 February 1910 – 8 January 1993) was a British Marxism, Marxist historian, specializing in the French Revolution and "history from below", especially the importance of crowds in history.George Rudé (1964). ''The Crowd in History. A Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England, 1730–1848''. New York: Wiley & Sons. Early life Born in Oslo, the son of Jens Essendrop Rude, a Norwegian engineer, and Amy Geraldine Elliot, an English woman educated in Germany, Rudé spent his early years in Norway. After World War I, his family moved to England, where he was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge. A specialist in modern languages, he taught at Stowe School, Stowe and St Paul's School (London), St. Paul's schools. After completing university, Rudé took a trip to the Soviet Union with friends. When he returned he was a "committed Communist and anti-Fascist", despite his family's fairly conservative political views. Career In 1935 Rudé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He initially rose to fame with '' Romancero gitano'' (''Gypsy Ballads'', 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. His poetry incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930—documented posthumously in ''Poeta en Nueva York'' (''Poet in New York'', 1942)—-he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, ''Blood Wedding'' (1932), ''Yerma'' (1934), and ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' (1936). García Lorca was gay and suffered from depression after the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chenjerai Hove
Chenjerai Hove (9 February 1956 – 12 July 2015), was a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both English and Shona. "Modernist in their formal construction, but making extensive use of oral conventions, Hove's novels offer an intense examination of the psychic and social costs - to the rural population, especially, of the war of liberation in Zimbabwe." He died on 12 July 2015 while living in exile in Norway, with his death attributed to liver failure. Life The son of a local chief Chenjerai Hove was born in Mazvihwa, near Zvishavane, in what was then Rhodesia. He attended school at Kutama College and Marist Brothers Dete, in the Hwange district of Zimbabwe. After studying in Gweru, he became a teacher and then took degrees at the University of South Africa and the University of Zimbabwe. He also worked as a journalist, and contributed to the anthology ''And Now the Poets Speak''. He published regularly in ''The Zimbabwean'', an opposition newspaper founded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah ( so, Nuuradiin Faarax, ar, نورالدين فارح) (born 24 November 1945) is a Somali novelist. His first novel, ''From a Crooked Rib'', was published in 1970 and has been described as "one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today". He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa. Farah has garnered acclaim as one of the greatest contemporary writers in the world, his prose having earned him accolades including the Premio Cavour in Italy, the Kurt Tucholsky Prize in Germany, the Lettre Ulysses Award in Berlin, and in 1998, the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In the same year, the French edition of his novel ''Gifts'' won the St Malo Literature Festival's prize. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Brenan
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain. Brenan is best known for '' The Spanish Labyrinth'', a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for '' South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village''. He was appointed CBE in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List of 1982. Life Brenan was born in Malta into a well-off Anglo-Irish family, while his father was serving there in the British Army. He was educated at Radley, a boarding school in England, which he hated due to the bullying he endured. His autobiographic works make it clear that he did not enjoy a good relationship with his father, Major Hugh Brenan. At the age of 18, and to spite his father who wanted him to train for an army career at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he set off with an older friend, the occasional photographer and eccentric, John Hope-Johnstone, to wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitrita Banerji
Chitrita Banerji is a historian of Indian cuisine. She specialises in Bengali cuisine, and is also an author, novelist and translator. Her work explores the relationship between memory, history, culture, religion and food. Biography Banerji was born in 1947, and grew up in Calcutta (now Kolkata). She originates from West Bengal, but spent seven years living in Bangladesh (formerly East Bengal). At the age of 20 she went to Harvard University where she did her master's degree in English. She has lived in the USA since 1990. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, traveling back to India regularly. Banerji has written for a number of publications, including ''The New York Times'', ''Gastronomica'', ''Gourmet'' and ''Granta''. Works Banerji is the author of several books: * ''Life and Food in Bengal'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991 (later abridged as ''Bengali Cooking: Seasons & Festivals'', Serif, 1997) * ''The Hour of the Goddess: Memories of Women, Food, and Ritual in Beng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Aylett
Steve Aylett (born 1967 in Bromley, United Kingdom) is an English author of satirical science fiction, fantasy, and slipstream. According to the critic Bill Ectric, "much of Aylett’s work combines the bawdy, action-oriented style of Voltaire with the sedentary, faux cultivated style of Peacock." Stylistically, Aylett is often seen as a difficult writer. As the critic Robert Kiely suggests, his books tend to be "baroque in their density, speed, and finely crafted detail; they are overcrowded, they dazzle and distort and wait for us to catch up with their narrative world." Although Aylett is best known for his novels, and for his transmedial metafiction ''Lint'', he has also created comics, stand-up, performance, music, movies, and art, often working in appropriative and other avant-garde modes. Aylett is also one of the few UK authors associated with the largely US-based Bizarro literary movement. Writing Beerlight Aylett's Beerlight series includes the novels ''The Crime Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cuisine En Dix Minutes
''La cuisine en dix minutes, ou l'Adaptation au rhythme moderne'' (English title: ''French Cooking in Ten Minutes, or, Adapting to the Rhythm of Modern Life'', also ''Cooking in Ten Minutes, or, Adapting to the Rhythm of Modern Life'') by Édouard de Pomiane, published in 1930, was an early and influential title on the subject of convenience cooking. It attempted to render many of the basic techniques of classic French cooking into a quick form for people who did not have time to cook. Compared to modern convenience cookbooks, almost everything is from scratch, though a good number of recipes call for canned vegetables (a modern cook might use frozen vegetables instead) as well as commercially available charcuterie products such as sausages and pâté. De Pomiane also adopts a rather tongue-in-cheek approach to writing and admonishes the reader to limit complexity and plan carefully. The book has been translated into several languages. The first German translation appeared in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard De Pomiane
Édouard Alexandre de Pomiane, sometimes Édouard Pozerski (20 April 1875 – 26 January 1964), was a French scientist, radio broadcaster and food writer. His parents emigrated from Congress Poland in 1863 after the January Uprising, changed their name from ''Pozerski'' to ''de Pomiane'', and became French citizens. De Pomiane worked as a physician at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he gave Félix d'Herelle a place to work on bacteriophages. His best known works that have been translated into English are '' Cooking in Ten Minutes'' and ''Cooking with Pomiane''. His writing was remarkable in its time for its directness (he frequently uses a strange second-person voice, telling you—the reader—what you are seeing and smelling as you follow a recipe) and for his general disdain for upper-class elaborate French cuisine French cuisine () is the cooking traditions and practices from France. It has been influenced over the centuries by the many surrounding cultures of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenfiddich Food And Drink Awards
The Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards were intended to recognize achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting on the subjects of food and drink. The awards had been sponsored since 1972 by William Grant & Sons, a family-owned Scottish distiller that produces Glenfiddich, a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky. In total 12 awards were made annually. In 2008, Glenfiddich decided to discontinue distributing Food and Drink Awards, reviewing their "strategy, scope and potential application in some of Glenfiddich’s key markets outside the UK". See also * Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards The Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards are annual awards given to notable Scottish people. It is sponsored by the Scotch whisky company Glenfiddich, in association with The Scotsman newspaper. Nine awards are given out for art, business, envir ... External linksGlenfiddich website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
