He was born in Aracataca because his grandfather killed a man in a gunfight and fled to this new town, taking his daughter, García Márquez’s mother, with him.
At Harvard Longfellow lectured, and directed the Modern Languages department which consisted men teaching in Spanish, French, Italian, and German. When one of them fell ill or need a replacement, Longfellow filled in.
When Shiga declared his intention to marry one of the family’s maids, she was quickly “removed” from the household.
When his poetry book, El cencerro de cristal, didn’t sell Güiraldes threw the unsold copies into a well. His wife, Adelina del Carril, fished them out and now they are sought after collectibles.
Christopher Marlowe (6 February, 1564 – 30 May, 1593) was an English translator, poet and playwright who influenced Shakespeare
Mr. Walcott is the first Caribbean writer to win the Nobel Prize
During her lifetime, she was considered one of Europe’s leading contemporary experimentalists.
At the age of nine, Mr. Warton translated an epigram by Martial (a Roman writer).
When Madame Bovary was serialized in a newspaper, the French government sued the author and publisher on charges of immorality. The government lost.
The name Voltaire, which the author started using in 1718, is an anagram of “AROVET LI,” the Latinized spelling of Arouet and the initial letters of “le jeune” (“the young”). Many saw the adoption of the name, which followed his incarceration at the Bastille, as a formal separation from his family and past.
