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Stella Díaz Varín
Stella Díaz Varín (11 August 1926 – 13 June 2006), also known as ''La Colorina'' ("The Redhead"), was a Chilean poet of the Generation of '50. Her unprecedented deep and philosophical style, as well as her controversial personality, marked a before and after in Chilean poetry. Biography Stella Díaz Varín was born on 11 August 1926 in La Serena, Chile, into a middle-class family. Her mother was a descendant of a highborn family of French origin that had fallen on hard times. Her father was an anarchist clockmaker who fostered in Díaz Varín her political ideals. Their economic situation and her father's ideas, together with her passionate readings, moved her from a very young age to write and publish poems and articles in local newspapers. In a public act in 1946, she read a poem in front of the Chilean president Gabriel González Videla which was dedicated to him. After this, the President helped her to settle in Santiago, a desire she had been nourishing since her fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Book Council
The National Book Council (), is a Malta, Maltese public entity dedicated to the promotion of the book industry in Malta. The council organises the Malta Book Festival (), The Literary Contest of Novels for Youth (Maltese: ''Konkors ta' Kitba Letteratura għaż-Żgħażagħ'') and other national and regional events, workshops, seminars and contests. It also confers the National Book Prize (), administers Public Lending Rights, and is Malta's registration agent for ISBN registration agency, ISBN and ISMN. History The National Book Council (NBC) was established by the Government of Malta in 2001 through subsidiary Legislation 605.12, operating under the remit of the Ministry for Education. Since its inception, the NBC has played a pivotal role in nurturing and developing the Maltese book industry, and in fostering Malta's literary culture by supporting authors, publishers, and readers through various initiatives, contests, and events. The NBC, therefore, acts as both a regula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Lihn
Enrique Lihn Carrasco (3 September 1929 – 10 July 1988) was a Chileans, Chilean writer, Literary criticism, literary critic, and cartoonist, mostly known as a poet, but who also wrote Essay, essays, Short story, short stories, Novel, novels, Play (theatre), plays, and Comic book, comic books. Biography Early life Son of Enrique Lihn Doll and María Carrasco Délano, Enrique Lihn completed his primary education at Saint George's College, Santiago, Saint George's College and later attended Santiago's Liceo Alemán. Lihn displayed an early aptitude for reading and was well-versed in Spanish poetry, Spanish, French poetry, French, Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon, and Latin American poetry from a young age. In 1942, at the age of thirteen, he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile, initially intending to study visual arts.Lihn 2008 Vial, Juan Manuel, «Por arte del birlibirloque», pages. 9-16 Although Lihn initially pursued painting at the university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From La Serena
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 Births
In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the last country to officially adopt the Gregorian Calendar, which ended the 344-year calendrical switch around the world that took place in October, 1582 by virtue of the Papal Bull made by Pope Gregory XIII. Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Ibn Saud is crowned ruler of the Kingdom of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne as Bảo Đại, the last monarch of the Nguyễn dynasty of the Kingdom of Vietnam. * January 16 – A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting. * January 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech". It features futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyberware, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. Much of cyberpunk is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when writers like Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner (novelist), John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison examined the impact of technology, drug culture, and the sexual revolution while avoiding the utopian tendencies of earlier science fiction. Comics exploring cyberpunk themes began appearing as early as Judge Dredd, first published in 1977. Released in 1984, William Gibson's influential debut novel ''Neuromancer'' helped solidify cyberpunk as a genre, drawing influence from punk subculture and early hacker culture. Frank Miller's ''Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized by members of the Silent Generation in the 1950s, better known as Beatniks. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of economic materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration. Allen Ginsberg's '' Howl'' (1956), William S. Burroughs' ''Naked Lunch'' (1959), and Jack Kerouac's ''On the Road'' (1957) are among the best-known examples of Beat literature.Charters (1992) ''The Portable Beat Reader''. Both ''Howl'' and ''Naked Lunch'' were the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to liberalize publishing in the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punk Literature
Punk literature (also called punk lit and, rarely, punklit) is literature related to the punk subculture. The attitude and ideologies of punk rock gave rise to distinctive characteristics in the writing it manifested. It has influenced the transgressional fiction literary genre, the cyberpunk genre and their derivatives. Journalism The punk rock subculture has had its own underground press in the form of punk zines, which are punk-related print magazines produced independently and distributed on a small scale. Many regional punk scenes have had at least one punk zine, which features news, gossip, social commentary, music reviews and interviews with punk rock bands. Notable punk zines include '' Maximum RocknRoll'', ''Punk Planet'', ''Cometbus'', '' Girl Germs'', '' Kill Your Pet Puppy'', '' J.D.s'', '' Sniffin' Glue'', '' Absolutely Zippo'', ''Suburban Rebels'' and '' Punk Magazine''. Notable punk journalists and magazine contributors include Mykel Board, John Holmstrom, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German Americans, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column ''Notes of a Dirty Old Man'' in the LA underground newspaper ''Open City (newspaper), Open City''. Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books during the course of his career. Some of these works include his ''Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Flores
Pamela commonly refers to: * ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', a novel written by Samuel Richardson in 1740 * Pamela (name), a given name and, rarely, a surname. Pamela may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Pamela Spence, a Turkish pop-rock singer, known by her stage name "Pamela" *"Pamela Pamela", a song recorded by Wayne Fontana that reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart in 1967 * "Pamela" (song), a 1988 hit song for the band Toto *"Pamella", a song by Remmy Ongala from the album ''Songs for the Poor Man'' *"Pamela Wan", a song composed by Vhong Navarro in 2004, inspired by the movie ''Otso-Otso Pamela-Mela-Wan'' Other entertainment and media * ''Pamela'' (film), a 1945 French film *'' Pamela, A Love Story'', an upcoming 2023 Netflix documentary about Pamela Anderson *''Una donna da guardare'', a 1990 Italian erotic movie *'' P.A.M.E.L.A.'', a first-person survival video game Other * MSC ''Pamela'', a container ship launched in 2005 * ''Pamela'' (butterf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
