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Mirko Bonné
Mirko Bonné (born 9 June 1965) is a German writer and translator. Bonné was born in Tegernsee, Bavaria. In 1975 his family moved to Hamburg, where he attended the Hansa Gymnasium. He graduated from the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Geesthacht in 1986 and worked as a bookshop assistant, taxi driver and nurse. His writing career began in the early 1990s with journalism, moving on to lyric poetry and translations. In his poetry, influenced by John Keats, Keats, Georg Trakl, Trakl and Günter Eich, Eich, he treats the themes of landscape, life, and memory, while his prose, which includes novels about Ernest Shackleton, Shackleton and Albert Camus, Camus, concerns itself with the mechanisms of oppression. He has published travel writing about South America, Russia, China, the United States, Iran, and Antarctica, and translated Sherwood Anderson, Anderson, Emily Dickinson, Dickinson, John Keats, Keats, E. E. Cummings, Cummings, Robert Creeley, Creeley, W. B. Yeats, Yeats, and Gherasim Luca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirko Bonné, 2013 (cropped)
Mirko (Cyrillic script: Мирко) is a masculine given name of South Slavic origin. By Slavic languages, Slavic etymology, the name is composed of the root ''mir'' (meaning peace) and hypocorism, hypocoristic suffix ''-ko'' usual in South Slavic languages, which together means "the peaceful one". Mirko is sometimes used as a short, hypocoristic form of Miroslav (given name), Miroslav in some Slavic languages. The name is widely popular in Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Italy and Germany. An alternative spelling in Italian language, Italian and German language, German is Mirco (other), Mirco. The nationality of those men with the forename Mirko who are from outside the Slavic region is listed next to the name. Notable men with the forename Mirko: *Prince Mirko of Montenegro *Mirko Alilović, Croatian handball player *Mirko Bašić Croatian handball player *Mirko Bellodi, Italian footballer *Mirko Bogović, Croatian po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (, 13 June 186528 January 1939), popularly known as W. B. Yeats, was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th century in literature, 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with John Millington Synge and Augusta, Lady Gregory, Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Seanad Éireann (Irish Free State), Senator of the Irish Free State. A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland. His father practised law and was a successful portrait painter. He was educated in Dublin and London and spent his childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish mythology, Irish legends and the occult. While in London he became part of the Irish literary revi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst-Meister-Preis Für Lyrik
Ernst-Meister-Preis für Lyrik (Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry) is a literary prize of Germany. The prize is endowed with €5,000. The Ernst Meister Prize was founded in 1981 in memory of the Hagen poet and writer Ernst Meister and has been awarded at irregular intervals. Since 2021, the award will be organized every three years by the New Ernst Meister Society for the city of Hagen. The prize honors "the work of authors who express their responsibility for language and poetry in a special way". Recipients * 1981 Christoph Meckel * 1986 Oskar Pastior * 1990 Paul Wühr * 1994 Michael Krüger * 2001 Brigitte Oleschinski (main prize, HP), Jochen Winter (HP), Jürgen Wiersch (Allgemeiner Förderpreis, AF), Helwig Brunner (AF), Sabine Scho (AF) * 2003 Lutz Seiler (HP), Ulf Stolterfoht (Westfälischer Förderpreis, WF), Hendrik Rost (AF) * 2005 Jan Wagner (HP), Nicolai Kobus (WF), Andreas Münzner (AF) * 2008 Monika Rinck (HP), Ulrike Almut Sandig (AF), Mirko Bonné ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Relay Du Roman D'Evasion
Prix was an American power pop band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1975 by Tommy Hoehn and Jon Tiven. The group ended up primarily as a studio project. Its recordings were produced by Tiven along with former Big Star member Chris Bell, who also played guitar and sang backup vocals. Prix is also famous for its use of banjo. Alex Chilton also participated in the recordings, along with session drummer Hilly Michaels. Although the group generated some major record label interest—notably from Mercury Records and Columbia/CBS Records—it ultimately only released a double A-side single on Ork Records in 1977 and a single on Miracle Records in 1978. Its only live performance came at a CBS Records showcase in 1976. In 1977, just as Ork Records released the first single and booked the group at CBGB, Prix broke up due both to Hoehn's unwillingness to remain in New York and to creative differences. In 1978, two of the songs recorded during the Prix sessions were included on ''Losi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berliner Kunstpreis
The ''Berliner Kunstpreis'' (Berlin Art Prize), officially Großer Berliner Kunstpreis, is a prize for the arts by the City of Berlin. It was first awarded in 1948 in several fields of art. Since 1971, it has been awarded by the Academy of Arts (''Akademie der Künste'') on behalf of the Senate of Berlin. Annually one of its six sections, fine arts, architecture, music, literature, performing arts and film and media arts, gives the great prize, endowed with €15,000, whereas the other five sections annually award prizes endowed with €5,000. History The Berlin Art Prize has been awarded since 1948 in commemoration of the March Revolution of 1848. The official name then, ''Berliner Kunstpreis – Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948'' (Berlin Art Prize – 1848/1948 Jubilee Foundation), was used until 1969, the ceremony was held by the Mayor in the Charlottenburg Palace. The prize was planned to be awarded first on 18 March 1948 by the City Berlinale, to commemorate the March Revol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang-Weyrauch-Förderpreis
The Wolfgang Weyrauch Advancement Prize is a literary prize in Hesse, Germany named for writer Wolfgang Weyrauch. Established in 1997, the prize is awarded to young writers for their encouragement and includes a stipend in the amount of €8,000. Literarische März. Retrieved February 9, 2012 Winners * 1979: Anna Jonas * 1981: Renate Fueß and Tina Stotz-Stroheker * 1983: Wolf-Dieter Eigner,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quart Heft Für Kultur Tirol
The quart (symbol: qt) is a unit of volume equal to a quarter of a gallon. Three kinds of quarts are currently used: the liquid quart and dry quart of the US customary system and the of the British imperial system. All are roughly equal to one liter. It is divided into two pints or (in the US) four cups. Historically, the size of a quart has varied with the different values of gallons over time, and in the case of the dry quart, in reference to different commodities. Name The term comes from the Latin (meaning one-quarter) via the French . However, although the French word has the same root, it frequently means something entirely different. In Canadian French in particular, the quart is called , while the pint is called . History Since gallons of various sizes have historically been in use, the corresponding quarts have also existed with various sizes. Definitions and equivalencies Imperial quart The imperial quart is equal to one-quarter of an imperial gallon o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Triste
Bella is a feminine given name. It is a diminutive form of names ending in -bella. ''Bella'' is related to the Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Latin words for beautiful, and to the name Belle, meaning ''beautiful'' in French. It increased in usage following the publication of the ''Twilight'' books by Stephenie Meyer. It is also known for being a nickname to Isabella, Annabella or Arabella. Given name People * Bella Abzug (1920–1998), American politician and prominent figure in the women’s movement * Bella Agossou (born 1981), Beninese actress * Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Soviet/Russian poet, writer, and translator * Bella Alarie (born 1998), American basketball player * Bella Alten (1877–1962), Polish operatic soprano * Bella Alubo (born 1993), Nigerian musician, singer, and songwriter * Bella Andre (fl. 2010), American author * Bella Angara (born 1939), Filipina politician and former governor of Aurora province * Bella Bayliss (born 1977), Scottis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Lew
Emma Lew (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet. Born in Melbourne, Emma Lew studied arts at Melbourne University and worked as a deckhand, shop assistant, proof-reader, and clerical assistant, only beginning to write poetry in 1993. (Thylazine Australian Artists and Writers Directory) Accessed: 3 January 2007 Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas. Her first volume of poems, ''The Wild Reply'', won the 1998 Mary Gilmore Prize and was joint winner of The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned ...
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