James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943—July 3, 1971) was an American poet, singer, songwriter, writer, and film director. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors, and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in rock music history. He was also the author of several books [...]
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Liefde is business. Copyright - Arnon Grunberg. Nijgh & Van Ditmar
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Liefde is business. Copyright - Arnon Grunberg. Nijgh & Van Ditmar
De top is binnen handbereik
Liefde is business. Copyright - Arnon Grunberg. Nijgh & Van Ditmar
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du mal; (1857;The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his Petits poèmes en prose (1868; “Little Prose Poems”) [...]
Margaret Cho born Moran Cho (December 5, 1968) is a U.S. comedian, fashion designer, author and actress. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those revolving around race and sex. She has also directed and appeared in music videos, and has her own clothing line. [...]
George Gordon Byron, later Noel, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788–19 April 1824) was an Anglo-Scottish poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.
Amongst Byron’s best-known works are the brief poems “She walks in beauty,” and “So, we’ll go no more a-roving,” and the narrative poems Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as [...]
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) Czech-born German-speaking writer whose posthumously published novels express the alienation of 20th century man. His stories, such as The Metamorphosis (1915), and novels, including The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal and bureaucratic world.He was born to a middle-class [...]
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) - French novelist, playwright, existentialist philosopher, and literary critic. In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he declined it stating that “It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself [...]
“Legendary Photographer, painter, and maker of objects and films, Man Ray was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of this century. Born in Philadelphia in 1890, he knew the worlds of Greenwich Village in the avant garde era following the 1913 Armory show; Paris in the 1920’s and 1930’s, where he played a [...]
