{"count":17752,"next":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=260","previous":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=258","results":[{"id":13288,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Ted Hughes","bio":"British poet Ted Hughes with full name Edward James Hughes served as poet laureate from 1984 to 1998; people note his work for its symbolism, passion, and dark natural imagery. He, the brother of Gerald Hughes and husband of Sylvia Plath, fathered Frieda Hughes and . Most characteristic verse of this English writer for children without sentimentality emphasizes the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines. The dialect of native west riding area of Yorkshire set the tone of verse of Hughes. At Pembroke College, Cambridge, he found folklore and anthropology of particular interest, a concern a number of his poems reflected. In 1956, he married the American poet Sylvia Plath. The couple made a visit to the United States in 1957, the year of publication of \r\nThe Hawk in the Rain\r\n, his first volume of verse. Other works quickly followed. The couple earlier separated, and following suicide of Plath in 1963, Hughes stopped writing poetry almost completely for almost three years but thereafter published prolifically, often in collaboration with photographers and illustrators, as in \r\nUnder the North Star\r\n (1981). He wrote many volumes for children, including \r\nRemains of Elmet\r\n(1979), in which he recalled the world of his childhood. From 1965, he co-edited the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation in London. \r\nWinter Pollen\r\n (1994) published some of essays of Hughes on subjects of literary and cultural criticism. After decades of silence on the subject of his marriage to Plath, Hughes addressed it in the poems of \r\nBirthday Letters\r\n (1998). ","raw_bio":"British poet Ted Hughes with full name Edward James Hughes served as poet laureate from 1984 to 1998; people note his work for its symbolism, passion, and dark natural imagery. He, the brother of Gerald Hughes and husband of Sylvia Plath, fathered Frieda Hughes and . Most characteristic verse of this English writer for children without sentimentality emphasizes the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines. The dialect of native west riding area of Yorkshire set the tone of verse of Hughes. At Pembroke College, Cambridge, he found folklore and anthropology of particular interest, a concern a number of his poems reflected. In 1956, he married the American poet Sylvia Plath. The couple made a visit to the United States in 1957, the year of publication of \r The Hawk in the Rain\r , his first volume of verse. Other works quickly followed. The couple earlier separated, and following suicide of Plath in 1963, Hughes stopped writing poetry almost completely for almost three years but thereafter published prolifically, often in collaboration with photographers and illustrators, as in \r Under the North Star\r  (1981). He wrote many volumes for children, including \r Remains of Elmet\r (1979), in which he recalled the world of his childhood. From 1965, he co-edited the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation in London. \r Winter Pollen\r  (1994) published some of essays of Hughes on subjects of literary and cultural criticism. After decades of silence on the subject of his marriage to Plath, Hughes addressed it in the poems of \r Birthday Letters\r  (1998). ","slug":"ted-hughes","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/ted-hughes","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T15:40:50.602964","is_has_special_post":true,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13289,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"David R. Slavitt","bio":"David Rytman Slavitt (born 23 March 1935 in White Plains, New York) is a writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books.Slavitt attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where his first writing teacher was Dudley Fitts. He received an undergraduate degree from Yale University (where he studied under Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren and was elected class poet, \"Scholar of the House,\" in 1956), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude), and then a Master's degree in English from Columbia University in 1957Before becoming a full-time free-lance writer in 1965, Slavitt worked at various jobs in the literary field. These included a stint in the personnel office of Reader's Digest in Pleasantville, New York; teaching English at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (1957–1958); and a variety of jobs at Newsweek in New York. Slavitt began there as a mailroom clerk, was promoted to the positions of book reviewer and film critic, and earned the position of associate editor from 1958 to 1963. He edited the movies pages from 1963 to 1965.Okla Elliott, a professor and Illinois Distinguished Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, has written of Slavitt that he \"served as an associate editor at Newsweek until 1965, teaching himself Greek on his 35-minute commute. In his last two years at Newsweek, he had a reputation as an astute, sometime cranky, but always readable 'flicker picker' and gained some notoriety for his film reviews there.\"Slavitt taught as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1977, and at Temple University, in Philadelphia, as associate professor from 1978 to 1980. Slavitt was a lecturer at Columbia University from 1985 to 1986, at Rutgers University in 1987, and at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and other institutions. He has given poetry readings at colleges and universities, at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and at the Library of Congress.His first work, a book of poems titled Suits for the Dead, was published in 1961.In the 1960s, Slavitt was approached by Bernie Geis & Associates to write a big book, a popular book, which he agreed to if he could use a pseudonym. As Henry Sutton, in 1967 he published The Exhibitionist, which sold more than 4 million copies. He followed this with The Voyeur in 1968 and three more novels as Henry Sutton. He has also published popular novels under the names of David Benjamin, Lynn Meyer, and Henry Lazarus.Slavitt has published numerous works in translation, especially classics, from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Spanish and French.Henry S. Taylor, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, has written, \"David Slavitt is among the most accomplished living practitioners\" of writing, \"in both prose and verse; his poems give us a pleasurable, beautiful way of meditating on a bad time. We can't ask much more of literature, and usually we get far less.\"Novelist and poet James Dickey wrote, \"Slavitt has such an easy, tolerant, believable relationship with the ancient world and its authors that making the change-over from that world to ours is less a leap than an enjoyable stroll. The reader feels a continual sense of gratitude.\"Georgia Jones-Davis, a poet and journalist, has said, \"Slavitt is brilliant and he writes with grace, passion and humor.\"Awards and honorsEdgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel for Paperback Thriller, 1976Grant from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1985National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, 1988Literature award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1989Rockefeller Foundation artist's residency, 1989. Slavitt used the time period of the retreat (November 3 - December 12, 1989) to work on a translation of the curse poem Ibis by the Latin poet Ovid.Kevin Kline Award, 2011, for Outstanding New Play or Musical","raw_bio":"David Rytman Slavitt (born 23 March 1935 in White Plains, New York) is a writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books.Slavitt attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where his first writing teacher was Dudley Fitts. He received an undergraduate degree from Yale University (where he studied under Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren and was elected class poet, \"Scholar of the House,\" in 1956), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude), and then a Master's degree in English from Columbia University in 1957Before becoming a full-time free-lance writer in 1965, Slavitt worked at various jobs in the literary field. These included a stint in the personnel office of Reader's Digest in Pleasantville, New York; teaching English at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (1957–1958); and a variety of jobs at Newsweek in New York. Slavitt began there as a mailroom clerk, was promoted to the positions of book reviewer and film critic, and earned the position of associate editor from 1958 to 1963. He edited the movies pages from 1963 to 1965.Okla Elliott, a professor and Illinois Distinguished Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, has written of Slavitt that he \"served as an associate editor at Newsweek until 1965, teaching himself Greek on his 35-minute commute. In his last two years at Newsweek, he had a reputation as an astute, sometime cranky, but always readable 'flicker picker' and gained some notoriety for his film reviews there.\"Slavitt taught as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1977, and at Temple University, in Philadelphia, as associate professor from 1978 to 1980. Slavitt was a lecturer at Columbia University from 1985 to 1986, at Rutgers University in 1987, and at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and other institutions. He has given poetry readings at colleges and universities, at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and at the Library of Congress.His first work, a book of poems titled Suits for the Dead, was published in 1961.In the 1960s, Slavitt was approached by Bernie Geis & Associates to write a big book, a popular book, which he agreed to if he could use a pseudonym. As Henry Sutton, in 1967 he published The Exhibitionist, which sold more than 4 million copies. He followed this with The Voyeur in 1968 and three more novels as Henry Sutton. He has also published popular novels under the names of David Benjamin, Lynn Meyer, and Henry Lazarus.Slavitt has published numerous works in translation, especially classics, from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Spanish and French.Henry S. Taylor, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, has written, \"David Slavitt is among the most accomplished living practitioners\" of writing, \"in both prose and verse; his poems give us a pleasurable, beautiful way of meditating on a bad time. We can't ask much more of literature, and usually we get far less.\"Novelist and poet James Dickey wrote, \"Slavitt has such an easy, tolerant, believable relationship with the ancient world and its authors that making the change-over from that world to ours is less a leap than an enjoyable stroll. The reader feels a continual sense of gratitude.\"Georgia Jones-Davis, a poet and journalist, has said, \"Slavitt is brilliant and he writes with grace, passion and humor.\"Awards and honorsEdgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel for Paperback Thriller, 1976Grant from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1985National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, 1988Literature award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1989Rockefeller Foundation artist's residency, 1989. Slavitt used the time period of the retreat (November 3 - December 12, 1989) to work on a translation of the curse poem Ibis by the Latin poet Ovid.Kevin Kline Award, 2011, for Outstanding New Play or Musical","slug":"david-r-slavitt","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/david-r-slavitt","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:06.926917","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13290,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Simon Goldhill","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"simon-goldhill","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/simon-goldhill","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:06.986672","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13291,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Gail Holst-Warhaft","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"gail-holst-warhaft","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/gail-holst-warhaft","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:07.057220","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13292,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"William Matthews","bio":"William Matthews was an American poet and essayist.Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Matthews attended Berkshire School and later earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University as well as a master's from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.In addition to serving as a Writer-in-Residence at Boston's Emerson College, Matthews held various academic positions at institutions including Cornell University, the University of Washington at Seattle, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Iowa. He served as president of Associated Writing Programs and of the Poetry Society of America. At the time of his death he was a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at City College of New York. A reading series has been named for him at City College of New YorkDuring his 27 years as an author, Matthews received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1980, Matthews was the poet in residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, and in 1997 he was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.Matthews published 11 books of poetry, including Time & Money which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996 and was a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist. Two posthumous collections have been released: Search Party: Collected Poems and After All: Last Poems.Matthews believed that poetry should have subject matter, so as to provide the substance needed for the art to fulfill its function.Williams died of a heart attack, the day after his 55th birthday.","raw_bio":"William Matthews was an American poet and essayist.Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Matthews attended Berkshire School and later earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University as well as a master's from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.In addition to serving as a Writer-in-Residence at Boston's Emerson College, Matthews held various academic positions at institutions including Cornell University, the University of Washington at Seattle, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Iowa. He served as president of Associated Writing Programs and of the Poetry Society of America. At the time of his death he was a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at City College of New York. A reading series has been named for him at City College of New YorkDuring his 27 years as an author, Matthews received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1980, Matthews was the poet in residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, and in 1997 he was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.Matthews published 11 books of poetry, including Time & Money which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996 and was a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist. Two posthumous collections have been released: Search Party: Collected Poems and After All: Last Poems.Matthews believed that poetry should have subject matter, so as to provide the substance needed for the art to fulfill its function.Williams died of a heart attack, the day after his 55th birthday.","slug":"william-matthews","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/william-matthews","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:07.070963","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13293,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Sophocles","bio":"Sophocles (born c. 496 bc, Colonus, near Athens [Greece]—died 406, Athens), (Greek: \r\nΣοφοκλής\r\n; German editions: \r\nSophokles\r\n, Russian: \r\nСофокл\r\n, French editions: \r\nSophocle\r\n) was an ancient Greek tragedy playwright. Not many things are known about his life other than that he was wealthy, well educated and wrote about one hundred and twenty three plays (of which few are extant). One of his best known plays is 'Oedipus the King' (Oedipus Rex).","raw_bio":"Sophocles (born c. 496 bc, Colonus, near Athens [Greece]—died 406, Athens), (Greek: \r Σοφοκλής\r ; German editions: \r Sophokles\r , Russian: \r Софокл\r , French editions: \r Sophocle\r ) was an ancient Greek tragedy playwright. Not many things are known about his life other than that he was wealthy, well educated and wrote about one hundred and twenty three plays (of which few are extant). One of his best known plays is 'Oedipus the King' (Oedipus Rex).","slug":"sophocles","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/sophocles","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:07.109773","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13294,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"David Franklin","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"david-franklin","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/david-franklin","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:07.127491","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13295,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"John Harrison","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"john-harrison","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/john-harrison","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:07.139400","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13296,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Robert Fagles","bio":"Fagles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Charles Fagles, a lawyer, and Vera Voynow Fagles, an architect. He attended Amherst College, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. The following year, he received his master's degree from Yale University. On June 17, 1956, he married Lynne Duchovnay, a teacher, and they had two children. In 1959, Fagles received his Ph.D in English from Yale and for the next year taught English there.From 1960 to 1962, Fagles was an English instructor at Princeton University. In 1962 he was promoted to Assistant Professor, and in 1965 became an Associate Professor of English and comparative literature. Later that year he became director of the comparative literature program. In 1970, he became a full professor, and from 1975 was the department chair. He retired from teaching as the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literaure in 2002, and remained a professor emeritus at Princeton.Between 1961 and 1996, Fagles translated many ancient Greek works. His first translation was of the poetry of Bacchylides, publishing a complete set in 1961. In the 1970s, Fagles began translating much Greek drama, beginning with Aeschylus's The Oresteia. He went on to publish translations of Sophocles's Three Theban Plays (1982) and Homer's Iliad (1990) and Odyssey (1996). In all of the last three, Bernard Knox authored the introduction and notes. Fagles' translations generally emphasize contemporary English phrasing and idiom but are faithful to the original ancient Greek as much as possible.In 1978, Fagles published I, Vincent: Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh. He was the co-editor of Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays (1962) and Pope's Iliad and Odyssey (1967).Fagles died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey on March 26, 2008, from prostate cancer.","raw_bio":"Fagles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Charles Fagles, a lawyer, and Vera Voynow Fagles, an architect. He attended Amherst College, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. The following year, he received his master's degree from Yale University. On June 17, 1956, he married Lynne Duchovnay, a teacher, and they had two children. In 1959, Fagles received his Ph.D in English from Yale and for the next year taught English there.From 1960 to 1962, Fagles was an English instructor at Princeton University. In 1962 he was promoted to Assistant Professor, and in 1965 became an Associate Professor of English and comparative literature. Later that year he became director of the comparative literature program. In 1970, he became a full professor, and from 1975 was the department chair. He retired from teaching as the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literaure in 2002, and remained a professor emeritus at Princeton.Between 1961 and 1996, Fagles translated many ancient Greek works. His first translation was of the poetry of Bacchylides, publishing a complete set in 1961. In the 1970s, Fagles began translating much Greek drama, beginning with Aeschylus's The Oresteia. He went on to publish translations of Sophocles's Three Theban Plays (1982) and Homer's Iliad (1990) and Odyssey (1996). In all of the last three, Bernard Knox authored the introduction and notes. Fagles' translations generally emphasize contemporary English phrasing and idiom but are faithful to the original ancient Greek as much as possible.In 1978, Fagles published I, Vincent: Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh. He was the co-editor of Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays (1962) and Pope's Iliad and Odyssey (1967).Fagles died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey on March 26, 2008, from prostate cancer.","slug":"robert-fagles","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/robert-fagles","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:07.151244","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13297,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Sophocles J. Orfanidis","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"sophocles-j-orfanidis","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/sophocles-j-orfanidis","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:07.163655","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13298,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Armand Schwerner","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"armand-schwerner","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/armand-schwerner","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:07.190966","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":13299,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Aristophanes","bio":"Aristophanes (Greek: Αριστοφάνης; c. 446 BCE – c. 386 BCE) was a playwright of ancient Athens. About 11 of his works are known in full, and they are the only plays of the \"Old Comedy\" style to have survived. They are The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, The Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Peace, Plutus (Wealth), The Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps. These plays have been translated into many languages and continue to be staged or adapted for theatrical productions.Aristophanes satirized the political and social issues of 5th-century-BC Athens, such as the ongoing Peloponnesian War, the structure of the city-state, the role of women in public life, and the influence of philosophers (notably Socrates) in shaping public opinion.  ","raw_bio":"Aristophanes (Greek: Αριστοφάνης; c. 446 BCE – c. 386 BCE) was a playwright of ancient Athens. About 11 of his works are known in full, and they are the only plays of the \"Old Comedy\" style to have survived. They are The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, The Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Peace, Plutus (Wealth), The Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps. These plays have been translated into many languages and continue to be staged or adapted for theatrical productions.Aristophanes satirized the political and social issues of 5th-century-BC Athens, such as the ongoing Peloponnesian War, the structure of the city-state, the role of women in public life, and the influence of philosophers (notably Socrates) in shaping public opinion.  ","slug":"aristophanes","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/aristophanes","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:07.263852","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2}],"description":"<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 24px;\"> The Great Poets and Writers in Indian and World History! </p>","image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_description/black.jpg"}