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André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu (Dutch: [ˈɑndreː riˈjøː], French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁjø]; born 1 October 1949) is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.
Gide insisted on the release of Victor Serge, a Soviet writer and a member of the Left Opposition who was prosecuted by the Stalinist regime for his views. [23] [24] As a distinguished writer sympathizing with the cause of Communism, he was invited to speak at Maxim Gorky's funeral and to tour the Soviet Union as a guest of the Soviet Union of ...
Written by Clifford Odets and directed by Odets and Sanford Meisner, the one-act play Waiting for Lefty was performed at the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City and became a theatrical legend. [8] The play reflects a kind of street poetry that brought great acclaim to the group and to Odets as the new voice of social drama in the 1930s. [9]
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Maurice Blanchot (French writer and essayist) Jorge Luis Borges (Argentine short story writer) André Breton (French author) Hermann Broch (Austrian writer) [39] Christine Brooke-Rose (British writer and literary critic) William S. Burroughs (author, poet, essayist) Jim Carroll (avant-garde poet) Louis-Ferdinand Céline (author)
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André; a Tragedy in Five Acts is a play by William Dunlap, first produced at the Park Theatre in New York City on March 30, 1798, by the Old American Company, published in that same year together with a collection of historic documents relating to the case of the title character, Major John André, the British officer who was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780, for his role in the treason of ...
Paul S. Kemp, author of Twilight Falling (set in the world of the Forgotten Realms, and based on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game) Katharine Kerr, (born 1944) author of the Deverry novels and others; Greg Keyes, (born 1963) author of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series; Caitlín R. Kiernan, (born 1964) author of Tales of Pain and Wonder