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The most famous writers in Åland are Anni Blomqvist, known for her five-volume Stormskärs-Maja series, Sally Salminen, whose best-known work is the 1936 novel Katrina, and Ulla-Lena Lundberg, who has described her native Kökar. Each of these works are set in Åland.
24. Nov. 2023 · Famous quote: “I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”. 4. Brendan Behan (1923–1964) Brendan Behan was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright as well as an activist. He wrote in both Irish and English and was named one of the best Irish writers of all time.
Iván Mándy (1918–1995), author of children's novels. Sándor Márai (1900–1989) Ferenc Molnár (1878–1952), author of The Paul Street Boys. Ferenc Móra (1879–1934) Zsigmond Móricz (1879–1942), foremost novelist of the earlier 20th century. Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1910) Terézia Mora (born 1971), writing in German.
Many of the best Scottish writers have, like Irish writers such as Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Swift, and others, become regarded by the outside world as great “English” writers, although they would probably resist that description: Scotland is a fiercely nationalistic nation, guarding its great public figures against ...
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- Jonathan Swift
- W.B. Yeats
- Molly Keane (1904 – 1996) Pen Name M.J. Farrell
- Oscar Wilde
- Samuel Beckett
- Bram Stoker
- Edna O’Brien Obe
- George Bernard Shaw
- James Joyce
- Seamus Heaney
Birth Place: Dublin, Ireland Notable Works: Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift was a satirical writer, poet, and, strangely enough, cleric who served as Dean of Dublin’s Saint Patrick’s Cathedral during his lifetime. He was a prolific writer who completed several novels, essays, poems, and political papers. He was born in Dublin to a family with mul...
Birth Place: Sandymount, Ireland Notable Works: (poems) an ode to his favorite place in Sligocalled ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree’ and the romantic ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’. William Butler Yeats was a gifted poet and one of the most famous figures in the late-nineteenth-century Irish literary resurgence. He was also one of the founders of the...
Birth Place: Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland Notable Works: Good Behaviour, The Rising Tide, Time After Time Keane was a Jane Austen fan, and her talent, like Austen’s, resided in her ability to create characters. This, combined with her wit and a keen awareness of what was going on beyond the surface of people’s behavior, allowed her to portray...
Birth Place: Dublin, Ireland Notable Works: The Importance of Being Ernest, The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854, and his legacy is still felt throughout the city. The house where he was born is now the academic center of Trinity College Dublin, where he studied. In Dublin, there are also various museums dedicated to Oscar Wi...
Birth Place: Dublin, Ireland Notable Works: (play) Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett appears frequently in lists of “most significant Irish writers”. He wrote a lot of plays since he was so active in theatre and theater, but he also wrote a lot of poems and a few novels. He lived in Paris for the majority of his adult life and wrote in both English ...
Birth Place: Dublin, Ireland Notable Works: Dracula Bram Stoker was born in Clontarf, Dublin, and educated at Trinity College. He worked as a theatre critic before committing his life to assist actorSir Henry Irving, with whom he traveled the world. He also served as the business manager for Irving’s Lyceum Theatre. In his spare time, Bram Stoker p...
Birth Place: Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland Notable Works: The Girl with Green Eyes, August is a Wicked Month, Casualties of Peace Josephine Edna O’Brien DBE is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet, and short-story writer who was born on December 15, 1930. Former Irish President Mary Robinson called her “one of the great creative write...
Birth Place: Dublin, Ireland Notable Works: Pygmalion, Candida, Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw, the Nobel Laureate for Literature, was most known for his realism and support for women’s rights and socialism. Shaw was one of London’s most powerful figures in the early twentieth century. He was a writer, political activist, and journalist. The ...
Birth Place: Dublin, Ireland Notable Works: Dubliners, Ulysses When people think of Irish literature, James Joyce is frequently the first name that comes to mind. Thanks to his distinct modernist style, which revolutionized fiction writing in the early twentieth century, he is unquestionably the most important Irish writer, as well as one of the mo...
Birth Place: Tamniaran, near Castledawson, Northern Ireland Notable Works:Death of a Naturalist, North, Human Chain, Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (translation, 1999) Seamus Justin Heaney, MRIA, was a poet, playwright, and translator, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Heaney was and continues to be regarded as one of Ireland...
The three best known Island books are An tOileánach ( The Islandman) by Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Peig by Peig Sayers, and Fiche Blian ag Fás ( Twenty Years A-Growing) by Muiris Ó Súilleabháin. Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1855-1937) Perhaps the greatest of the Island writers. A farmer and fisherman, he lived all his life on the Island.
24. Apr. 2019 · Sophocles 496 – 406 BCE. A well-educated man from a wealthy family, Sophocles served several roles in Athenian society, including a role as a military commander. He also wrote plays, entering and winning the drama element of the Dionysian festival possibly over 20 times, more than esteemed contemporaries.
