Born in Italy in 1880, Guillaume Apollinaire was a poet, writer and critic who settled in France and is known as one of the founding fathers of surrealism. Although his father was not known, his mother was from Polish royalty and he was brought up speaking French, Italian and Polish. As a teenager, he moved from Rome to Paris and soon ...
Born in 1788 in Bulacan, Francisco Balagtas is rightly seen as one of the literary greats of the Philippines, a prolific romantic poet known for his epic Florante at Laura. Born into a life of poverty, from a young age he was hungry for knowledge and, after attending school in Bigaa, went to Manila where he became a servant to a ...
Joy Goswami is one of the best BengaLi Poets around and writes in the Bengali language. He is a well published writer of the ‘post-Jibananda Das era’, having some 25 poetry collections behind him. In addition to this he has also written ten novels, one of them written completely in verse. He has also written a book of essays. He runs ...
Fantasy writer and poet George MacDonald was born Aberdeenshire in 1824 and was considered a strong influence on such literary greats as Lewis Carroll and J.R.R. Tolkien. From strong farming stock, MacDonald grew up in a staunchly Calvinist atmosphere, and, although he disagreed with its doctrines, it is something that influenced his writings and convinced him to become a ...
American poet Erin Belieu was born in 1967 in Nebraska and won an MA at Boston and an MFA at Ohio before going on to teach at various universities and colleges across the States, including as a professor for creative writing. Her works have covered such diverse issues as gender divides and meaning, the idea of love, and how our history ...
