Notable Writers Flashcards
(33 cards)
Notable writers in
Asia
North America
Europe
Latin America
Africa
Notable writers in Asia
Tan Twan Eng
Musharraf ali Farooqi
Jeet Thayil
Kim Thuy
Nayomi Munaweera
Notable writers in North America
Jonathan Safran Foer
Sara Gruen
Margaret Atwood
Valeria Luiselli
Carmen Boullosa
Notable writers in Europe (IDZDM)
Ian Mcewan
David Mitchell
Zadie Smith
Delphine de Vigan
Michel Houellebecq
Notable writers in latin America (IGMPR)
Isabel Allende
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mario Vargas Llosa
Patricio Pron
Rodrigo Hasbun
Notable writers in Africa
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Aminatta Forna
Nadine Gordimer
Alain Mabanckou
Ben Okri
(born March15,1959, Minna, Nigeria) is a Nigerian novelist, short-story writer,and poet who used magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in the country of his birth.
• In Arcadia (2002);
• Starbook (2007);
• The Age of Magic (2014); and
• The Freedom Artist (2019)
• An African Elegy (1992), a collection of poems Other volumes
of poetry included Wild (2012), Rise Like Lions:
Poetry for the Many (2018), and A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn (2021).
won the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road (1991)
Nigerian folklore, personal experiences, themes of magic realism spirituality
Ben Okri
(born February 24, 1966, Mouyondzi, Congo [now Republic Congo])
la prolific Francophone Congolese
poet and novelist whose wordplay, philosophical bent, and sometimes sly and often absurd sense of humour resulted in his being known in
France as “the African Samuel
Beckett.”
• won the Association of French-Language Writers’
Literary Grand Prize of Black Africa
Congolese heritage, African
traditions, and experiences of diaspora
Alain Mabanckou
In 2007 Gordimer was awarded the French Legion of Honour
• Experiences of apartheid and social injustice; the complexities of human relationships; her own activism and political beliefs.
Nadine Gordimer
• The Devil that Danced on the Water (2002), Forna’s first book, received wide critical acclaim across the UK and the US. It was broadcast on BBC Radio. It was a runner-up for the UK’s Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction
• Ancestor Stones won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for debut fiction in the US[44] and the LiBeraturpreis in Germany. It was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award.
• The Washington Post selected Ancestor Stones as
Proma hs rs by Vant eat magane as one o.
Africa’s best new writers.
• The Memory of Love, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award 2011
• The Memory of Love was also shortlisted for
International
Dublin
Literary.
Award 2012, the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 and the Warwick Prize for Writing.
• 2014: Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, Fiction (won), valued at $150,000, one of the largest prizes
her personal history and her family’s experiences during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
Aminatta Forna
Purple Hibiscus garnered the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2005 for Best First Book (Africa) and that year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (overall). It was also short-listed for the
2004 Orange Prize for Fiction.
• Half of a Yellow Sun became an international best seller and was awarded the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction in 2007. Eight years later it won the “Best of the Best” Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, a special award for the “best” prizewinner from the previous decade.
Nigerian culture and history socialistical
Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie
In 2017, included in the Bogota 39 list of the most promising young writers in Latin America
personal experiences, Bolivian history, and the complexities of human relationships
Rodrigo Hasbun
• Granta magazine selected him in 2010 as one of the 22 best young writers in Spanish of his generation.
He won the twenty-second Alfaguara Novel Prize in
2019
for
his
work
Mañana tendremos otros
nombres among other prizes.
• the 2008 José Manuel Lara Foundation Award
Patricio Pron
the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images
of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.”
Mario Vargas Llosa
Influenced by Latin American culture, folklore, and history;
• influenced by authors such as
William Faulkner and Virginia
Woolf;
• experiences in journalism and
personal life events.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Personal experiences, family history, politics, and feminism
• Influence of magical realism and Latin American culture
Isabel Allende
Prix Novembre (1998)
• International Dublin Literary Award (2002)
• Prix Goncourt (2010)
• Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2019)
Influence from authors
Michel
Houellebecq
• 2008 Prix des libraires
• 2011 Prix du roman Fnac
• 2015 Prix Renaudot
Delphine de Vigan
Influenced by writers like Toni
Morrison, James Baldwin, and George Orwell, as well as her experiences in London.
• White Teeth (2000)
• The Autograph Man (2002)
Zadie Smith
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
• shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
• In 2012, his metafictional novel Cloud Atlas (again, with multiple narrators), was adapted as a feature film of the
same name.
• Long-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize
Influences from various literary genres and styles incret in then fidenty,
• writers like Italo Calvino and
Gabriel García Márquez
David Mitchell
• 2005- James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction)
• 2005- Saturday
• 2003- Man Booker International Prize (nominee)
• 2002- On Modern British Fiction
• 2002- National Book Critic’s Fiction Award (USA)
• 2001- Atonement
• 2002- Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction)
• 1998- Amsterdam
• 2001- WH Smith Literary Award
• 1997- Enduring Love
• 2001- Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlisted)
- lan Mcewan
• Mexican history and culture
• Feminism and gender studies
• Other writers such as Octavio Paz and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana
- Carmen Boullosa
• 2018: American Book Award for Tell Me How It Ends:
An Essay in 40 Questions
• 2019: MacArthur Fellowship
Literature, Vitock to Prain 60
2020: Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in
• 2020: Folio Prize
• 2021: International Dublin Literary Award
• 2023: Royal Society of Literature International Writer
Valeria Luiselli
• won two Governor General’s Literary Awards, for Poetry or Drama for The Circle Game (1966) and for fiction for The Handmaid’s Tale (1985).
• Golden Booker Prize (2017 for The Handmaid’s Tale)
• In 2000 she won the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin.
• She won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2016 for the spirit of political activism threading her life and works.
Margaret Atwood
