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David Hare at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2018. David Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is known for his theatrical works, including his acclaimed plays Pravda (1985), The Absence of War (1993), Skylight (1995), Amy's View (1997), and The Judas Kiss (1998). He is also known for his works on film and television.
He was particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern. Ray was the author of twenty-two volumes of poetry, including "Hemingway: A Desperate Life" (2011), "When" (2007), "Music of Time: Selected and New Poems" (2006) and The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq Wars (2004 ...
David Mandessi Diop (9 July 1927 – 29 August 1960) [1] was a French West African poet known for his contribution to the Négritude literary movement. [2] His work reflects his anti-colonial stance. [ 3 ]
David Pollock Young (born December 14, 1936) is an American poet, translator, editor, literary critic and professor. His work includes 11 volumes of poetry, translations from Italian, Chinese, German, Czech, Dutch, and Spanish, critical work on Shakespeare, Yeats, and modernist poets, and landmark anthologies of prose poetry and magical realism.
2007 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) (shortlist) for The Hut in Question; 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize (International shortlist) for Selected Poems, 1969–2005; 2011 Costa Book Awards (Poetry), shortlist, Night; 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize (International winner) for Night; 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize (poetry) for Fire Songs
Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010) is a reimagining of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland written by British-American author J.T. Holden. It tells the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (with a "Slight Detour Through the Looking-Glass ") in 19 rhyming poems, each written in the same style as ...
A longtime Wilmington writer has landed on a prestigious list of the best books written this century. John Jeremiah Sullivan, who has lived in Wilmington since the mid-2000s, comes in at No. 81 ...
Slag is a 1970 play by British writer David Hare. Originally presented at the Hampstead Theatre Club, it transferred in a revived production to the Royal Court Theatre, and its notice there won David Hare the Evening Standard award for most promising new playwright. The original cast at the Royal Court were Lynn Redgrave, Anna Massey and Barbara Ferris. Slag is a biting satire in which the ...