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Ágnes Lehóczky
Ágnes Lehóczky is a Hungarian-British poet, academic, and translator born in Budapest in 1976. Biography Early life and education Lehóczky completed her master's degree in English and Hungarian Literature at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary in 2001 and completed a Master of Arts with distinction in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2006. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Critical and Creative Writing, also from the University of East Anglia, which she obtained in July 2011. Lehóczky is Senior lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield, Co-Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield, and Contributing Advisor to Blackbox Manifold literary journal. Career Lehóczky has published five poetry collections and several Pamphlet, pamphlets in English language, English, co-edited three major international poetry Anthology, anthologies in the United Kingdom, and is the author of an academic monograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary lies within the drainage basin of the Danube, Danube River and is dominated by great lowland plains. It has a population of 9.6 million, consisting mostly of ethnic Hungarians, Hungarians (Magyars) and a significant Romani people in Hungary, Romani minority. Hungarian language, Hungarian is the Languages of Hungary, official language, and among Languages of Europe, the few in Europe outside the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Budapest is the country's capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, largest city, and the dominant cultural and economic centre. Prior to the foundation of the Hungarian state, various peoples settled in the territory of present-day Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamphlet
A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a Hardcover, hard cover or Bookbinding, binding). Pamphlets may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths, called a ''leaflet'' or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and Saddle stitch stapler, saddle stapled at the crease to make a simple book. In the "International Standardization of Statistics Relating to Book Production and Periodicals", UNESCO defines a pamphlet as "a non-periodical printed publication of 5 to 48 pages, excluding covers, published in a specific country and available to the public," while a book is "a non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages, excluding covers." These definitions are intended solely for UNESCO's book production statistics. Etymology The word ''pamphlet'' for a small work (''opuscule'') issued by itself without covers came into Middle English as or , generalized from a twelfth-century Elegiac c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Centre For Writing
The National Centre for Writing, formerly Writers' Centre Norwich, is a literature development agency and national centre for writing based in Norwich, England. It led the successful bid for Norwich to be granted the UNESCO City of Literature title in 2012. In April 2015, the organisation moved into the historic building Dragon Hall, Norwich. References External links * Academic organisations based in the United Kingdom Organisations based in Norwich Writers' centres and houses, Norwich {{lit-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrid Alben
Astrid Alben is a Dutch-born British poet, editor, experimental writer, and translator. She is the author of several poetry collections, and her poems have been translated into a number of languages, including Chinese, Maltese, Slovene and Romanian. Alben often appears at literary festivals throughout Europe, including the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival. Between 2002 and 2018, Alben was the co-founder and artistic director of the arts and sciences initiative PARS (Atlas of Creative Thinking). In this, she curated site-specific events that combined theatre, art installations and scientific experiments, using spaces such as the Serpentine Galleries and Central Saint Martins in London, as well as the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. She was elected chair of Poetry London magazine in 2021 and is Commissioning Editor for Literature in Translation for Prototype Publishing. Biography Alben was born in Loosdrecht, the Netherlands, and was raised in Lagos, Nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Szirtes
George Szirtes (; born 29 November 1948) is a British poet and translator from the Hungarian language into English. Originally from Hungary, he has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life after coming to the country as a refugee at the age of eight. Szirtes was a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Life Born in Budapest on 29 November 1948, Szirtes came to England as a refugee in 1956 aged 8. After a few days in an army camp followed by three months in an off-season boarding house on the Kent coast, along with other Hungarian refugees, his family moved to London, where he was brought up and went to school, then studied fine art in London and Leeds. Among his teachers at Leeds was the poet Martin Bell. His poems began appearing in national magazines in 1973, and his first book, ''The Slant Door'', was published in 1979. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize the following year. He has won a variety of prizes for his work, most recently the 2004 T. S. Eliot Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval ( , born 11 July 1980) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter, record producer, and novelist. She has released nine solo albums, two under the alias Rockettothesky and seven under her own name. In 2015, Hval released her fifth studio album, ''Apocalypse, Girl'', to widespread critical acclaim on the label Sacred Bones. She followed with several well-received solo albums on Sacred Bones and later 4AD Records. Under the name Lost Girls, Hval has released two full-length collaborative studio albums – ''Menneskekollektivet'' (2021) and ''Selvutsletter'' (2023) – with her husband and musical partner Håvard Volden. After initially studying literature and working as a freelance columnist and writer, Jenny Hval has published four novels, ''Perlebryggeriet (Pearl Brewery)'' (2009, translated into English as ''Paradise Rot, Paradise Rot: A Novel''), ''Inn i ansiktet (Into the Face)'' (2012), ''Å hate Gud (To Hate God)'' (2018, translated into English as ''Girls Against God'') a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoë Skoulding
Zoë Skoulding FLSW is a poet, living in Wales, whose work encompasses translation, editing, sound-based vocal performance, literary criticism and teaching creative writing. Her poetry has been widely anthologised, translated into over 25 languages and presented at numerous international festivals. Career Skoulding is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University, where her research explores urban space, sound, ecopoetics, contemporary experimental poetry and translation. She has been involved in several collaborative poetry translation projects, including ''Metropoetica'', and has translated from French the selected poems of Luxembourg poet Jean Portante. In 2018 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors for the achievement and distinction of her body of work and her contribution to poetry. Her collection ''Footnotes to Water'' won the poetry category in the Wales Book of the Year awards, 2020. As Editor of ''Poetry Wales'' from 2008 to 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry O%27Connor (musician) , Canadian judge
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Terry O'Connor may refer to: * Terry O'Connor (politician) (born 1940), Canada politician * Terry O'Connor (musician) (1897–1983), Irish musician and teacher * Terry O'Connor (rugby league) (born 1971), English rugby player and commentator See also * Tere O'Connor (born 1958), American choreographer * Terence O'Connor (1891–1940), British politician * Terrence O'Connor Terrence O'Connor is a judge who served on the Tax Court of Canada The Tax Court of Canada (TCC; ), established in 1983 by the ''Tax Court of Canada Act'', is a federal superior court which deals with matters involving companies or individua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Riley
Denise Riley (born 1948, Carlisle) is an English poet and philosopher. Life Riley lives in London. She was educated for a year at Somerville College, Oxford, and graduated from New Hall, Cambridge. She was, until recently, Professor of Literature with Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and is currently A. D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University. Her visiting positions also included a writer in Residence at the Tate Gallery in London and visiting fellow at Birkbeck College in the University of London. She was formerly a Writer in Residence at Tate Gallery London, and has held fellowships at Brown University and at Birkbeck, University of London. Among her poetry publications are '' Penguin Modern Poets 10'', with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair (1996). Work Her poetry interrogates self-hood within the lyrical mode. Her critical writings are on motherhood, women in history, "identity", and philosophy of language. Her poetry collections include ''Marx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Language
Hungarian, or Magyar (, ), is an Ugric language of the Uralic language family spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighboring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by Hungarians, Hungarian communities in southern Slovakia, western Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast, Transcarpathia), central and western Romania (Transylvania), northern Serbia (Vojvodina), northern Croatia, northeastern Slovenia (Prekmurje), and eastern Austria (Burgenland). It is also spoken by Hungarian diaspora communities worldwide, especially in North America (particularly the Hungarian Americans, United States and Canada) and Israel. With 14 million speakers, it is the Uralic family's most widely spoken language. Classification Hungarian is a member of the Uralic language family. Linguistic connections between Hungarian and other Uralic languages were noticed in the 1670s, and the family's existenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in place of, Denotation, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, Phonaesthetics#Euphony and cacophony, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm (via metre (poetry), metre), and sound symbolism, to produce musical or other artistic effects. They also frequently organize these effects into :Poetic forms, poetic structures, which may be strict or loose, conventional or invented by the poet. Poetic structures vary dramatically by language and cultural convention, but they often use Metre (poetry), rhythmic metre (patterns of syllable stress or syllable weight, syllable (mora) weight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ágnes Nemes Nagy
Ágnes Nemes Nagy (January 3, 1922 – August 23, 1991) was a Hungary, Hungarian poet, writer, educator, and translator. She was born in Budapest and earned a teaching diploma from the University of Budapest. From 1945 to 1953, she was employed by the education journal ''Köznevelés''; from 1953 to 1957, she taught high school. After 1957, she devoted herself to writing. Following World War II, Nemes Nagy worked on a literary periodical ''Újhold'' (New Moon); the editor was critic Balázs Lengyel (critic), Balázs Lengyel, who she later married. The magazine was eventually banned by the government of the time. In 1946, Nemes Nagy published her first volume of poetry ''Kettős világban'' (In a dual world). In 1948, she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize. During the 1950s, her own work was suppressed and she worked as a translator, translating the works of Molière, Jean Racine, Racine, Pierre Corneille, Corneille, Bertolt Brecht and others. Selected works * ''Szárazvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
