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Anne Enright
Anne Enright (born 1962)

essayist, literary critic, television director, television producer, film director

  • Trinity College Dublin, University of East Anglia

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The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
Actress
The forgotten waltz
The Gathering
Taking pictures
The Granta book of the Irish short story
The Green Road
Making babies
Yesterday's weather
Very Irish Christmas
The Wig My Father Wore
Repeal The 8th
Uea Creative Writing Anthology 2008
Becoming
Como Estas?
No Authority
The Portable Virgin
Here's to Love/Honey(Short Story)
Della/the Bad Sex (Short Story)
Until the Girl Died/(Short Story)
Men and Angels/(Short Story)
Caravan/Natalie/ (Short Story)
Little Sister/Pale (Short Story)
Babies
Felix/Mr Snip Snip (Short Story)
Lost in transition
(She Owns)Every (Short Story)
Green/in the Bed (Short Story)
Historical Letters (Short Story)
Wren, the Wren
Ju hui
ha-Mifgash
Davy Byrnes stories 2014
Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010)

actor, artist, theatre critic

  • Merchant Taylors' Girls' School, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts

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According to Queeney
Master Georgie
Every man for himself
A quiet life
Watson's apology
Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
The Girl In The Polkadot Dress
According to Queenie
Birthday Boys
A Quiet Life
Every man for himself
According to Queeney
Watson's Apology
Quiet Life
Harriet said -
Injury Time
The bottle factory outing
English journey, or, The road to Milton Keynes
Sweet William
An Awfully Big Adventure
The birthday boys
The dressmaker
Another Part Of The Wood
Young Adolf
Forever England
Mum and Mr. Armitage
WINTER'S TALES (26) Twenty-Six
Front row
The secret glass
Sweet William (Flamingo)
The Girl In The Polkadot Dress
Filthy lucre, or, The tragedy of Ernest Ledwhistle and Richard Soleway
A Weekend with Claude
Front Row: Evenings at the Theatre
Winter garden
Watson's apology ; Mum and Mr. Armitage and other stories
Winter Garden
Un'avventura terribilmente complicata
Something happened yesterday
The Dressmaker
Collected stories
Every Man for Himself
A Quiet Life Virago Modern Classics
The Bottle Factory Outing
Harriet Said...
Master Georgie
A Quiet Life (Flamingo)
Weekend with Claude
The dressmaker
Sweet William
Filthy lucre
Injury Time
Novels of Beryl Bainbridge Volume Two
Weekend with Claude
A weekend with Claude
Awfully Big Adventure
Novels of Beryl Bainbridge Volume One
Mum and Mr. Armitage
According to Queeney Hb (Msr)
Bottle Factory Outing
A weekend with Claud
Collected Stories
Selon Queeney
Front Row Signed Edition
Young Adolf (Soundings S.)
Harriet Said
Young Adolf
Le Jardin d'hiver
Another Part of the Wood
Sombre dimanche
Lo ha dicho Harriet
Dressmaker
la fille avec la robe a pois
Unnatural Causes
A quiet life
The Birthday Boys (Bainbridge, Beryl)
Every Man for Himself B D/Bx24
Injury time
Sweet William
Salve-se que puder!
Efendi Georgie
Secret Glass
Master Georgie B D/Bx24
An Awfully Big Adventure (Bainbridge, Beryl)
Front Row Evenings at the Theatre
Every Man for Himself B S/Wx12
Nachtlicht. Der fesselnde Roman vom Untergang der Titanic
LA Costurera/the Dressmaker
The girl in the polka-dot dress
The Dressmaker (Sound)
The Bottle Factory Outing (Soundings)
Master Georgie (Bainbridge, Beryl)
Colin Haycraft, 1929-1994
Winter Garden (Soundings CD Library)
Georgie
Mum and Mr Armitage (Flamingo)
The Birthday Boys (Soundings)
Lo que dijo Harriet
Gillian Rubinstein
Gillian Rubinstein (born 1942)

film critic

  • University of Oxford

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The harsh cry of the heron
Across the Nightingale Floor
Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori)
Brilliance of the moon
Across the nightingale floor
Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori, Book 2)
Grass For His Pillow, Episode 1
Grass For His Pillow, Episode 2
Grass for his pillow
Brilliance of the Moon (Tales of the Otori)
Space demons
Brilliance of the Moon, Episode 2
Galax-arena
Skymaze
Foxspell
The Harsh Cry of the Heron
Under the cat's eye
Heaven's net is wide
Across the nightingale floor
Beyond the Labyrinth
Brilliance of the Moon, Episode 1
The Giant's Tooth
Brilliance of the Moon (Tales of the Otori, Book 3)
Dog in, cat out
Answers to Brut
Flashback
Shinkei
Across Nighingale Floor Pb a Fmt
Across the nightingale floor
Pure Chance
Across the Nightingale Floor
ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR
At Ardilla
Peanut the pony rat
The giant's tooth
Jake And Pete
Sharon keep your hair on
The Pirates' Ship
Le Clan des Otori, tome 1
Melanie and the night animal
Heavens Net Is Wide Lian Hearn
Tales of the Otori Trilogy
AFTER DARK
Heaven's Net Is Wide (The Tales of the Otori Series)
Annie's Brother's Suit and Other Stories
Across The Nightingale Floor, Episode 2
Across the Nightingale Floor, Episode 1
Grass For His Pillow The Way Through The Snow
Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori 2)
The harsh cry of the heron
Prue Theroux
Der Clan der Otori 1. Das Schwert in der Stille
Accros The Nightingale Floor
Terra-Farma
El brillo de la luna
Suelo Del Ruisenor/across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori in Spanish)
Der Clan der Otori
Across The Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori (Library))
Leyendas de Los Otori
Mr. Plunkett's Pool
Across the Nightingale Floor X36 Mxd Dbn (Tales of the Otori Book 1)
El lamento de la garza
Tales of the Otori
Leyenda Otori II - Con La Hierba de Almohada
La red del cielo es amplia
Cesarz Ośmiu Wysp
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

film director, professor, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, journalist, women's rights activist, film critic, theatrical director, human rights activist, historian, opinion journalist

  • University of Paris, Harvard University

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In America
The Volcano Lover
Na América
The Volcano Lover
In America
Illness as metaphor
On photography
Death kit
Regarding the pain of others
Where the Stress Falls
Styles of radical will
At the same time
The benefactor
Against Interpretation
As consciousness is harnessed to flesh
Conversations with Susan Sontag
I, etcetera
Women
AIDS and its metaphors
Under the sign of Saturn
Against interpretation, and other essays
Reborn
Alice in Bed
A Susan Sontag reader
The way we live now
Women
Reborn
Duet for cannibals
Penguin Modern Classic STOCK PACK 5 x 50
Death Kit
Trip to Hanoi
Against Interpretation And Other Essays
Cage-Cunningham-Johns
Essays of the 1960s & 70s
Selected Stories
Yo, etcetera
The best American essays
Antonin Artaud
Sobre la fotografía
Captive Spirit
In Amerika
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Richard Misrach
Sur la photographie
Krankheit als Metapher & Aids und seine Metaphern.
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
Declaración
Obra Imprescindible. Susan Sontag / Susan Sontag
Brother Carl
La maladie comme métaphore
Violent Legacies
Maestros and Monsters
Le sida et ses métaphores
Sulla fotografia. Realtà e immagine nella nostra società
Italy
La Enfermedad y Sus Metaforas y el Sida y Sus Metaforas
Literature Is Freedom
Styles of Radical Will
Susan Sontag
En Amérique
En America
Face of Human Rights
The best American essays 1992
Debriefing
Der Liebhaber des Vulkans
Ich. etc.
Estilos radicales
At The Same Time - Essays & Speeches
Debriefing
Notes on Camp
Ante el Dolor de Los Demás / Regarding the Pain of Others
Against Interpretation, and Other Essays Lib/E
La conciencia uncida a la carne
Aids andits metaphors
Das Leiden anderer betrachten
Sobre La Fotografia
Odrodzona Dzienniki Tom 1 1947-1963
Under the Sign of Saturn
Stories
Machete Season
Women
Bajo El Signo de Saturno
Where the Stress Falls Lib/E
On Women
El Benefactor
Syberbergs Hitler-Film
Bilincin Kapisini Aralamak
Untitled Novel
Der Wohltäter. Roman
On Women
L'amant du volcan
Against Interpretation
Estilos Radicales - B -
ecriture meme
Don Mccullin (signed Edition)
Brother Carl
Baskalarinin Acisina Bakmak
BARTHES
In Amerika
Susan Sontag Reader
AIDS and Its Metaphors
Ruyalarinin Esiri
The Benefactor (Avon, V2114)
El amante del volcan
Later essays
Regarding the Pain of Others
Reborn
Volcano Lover
Sontag on Film
Kunst und Antikunst
In America
Das Leiden anderer betrachten
Aids und seine Metaphern
En América
Saturn Yildizi Altinda
Benefactor
I, Etcetera
Death Kit
O fotografii
Where the Stress Falls
Bilinç Tene Kusaninca
On Photography
Granta: Sobre la marcha. Tomo #7 (Granta: As [You] Go Through Life. Volume #7)
Yeniden Dogan
Ich schreibe, um herauszufinden, was ich denke
Stories
Granta En Español
Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Sanatci
Kunst und Antikunst. 24 literarische Analysen
Yoruma Karsi
Untitled Book on Japan
Under the Sign of Saturn Lib/E
Todesstation
Susan Sontag On Photography
Sobre la fotografia
À la rencontre d'Artaud
Yanardag Sevdalisi
Reborn
AMANTE DEL VOLCAN, EL
Styles of Radical Will
Cap a Amèrica
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Bajo el signo de saturno
Syberbergs Hitler-Film
El benefactor
Moi, etcetera
Style radykalnej woli
Bilinc Tene Kusaninca
Amerika'da
DEATH KIT
Ante el dolor de los demás
Under the Sign of Saturn
Susan Sontag Reader
Estuche de muerte
Notes on Camp
Benefactor
Boyle Yasıyoruz Artık
At the Same Time
Cuestión de énfasis
Sobre la fotografia
Globales Amerika?
On Photography
Gesten radikalen Willens
Amante Del Volcán
Portraits in Life and Death
Ante El Dolor de Los Demas
Styles of Radical Will
Styles of Radical Will
Where the Stress Falls
Sobre la fotografia
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
Fashion Images De Mode No. 4
Przeciw interpretacji i inne eseje
Al mismo tiempo/ At the Same Time
Ben Vesaire
ecriture meme
La enfermedad y sus metáforas | El sida y sus metáforas
El Amante del Volcan
Death Kit
Duet for Cannibals
A Susan Sontag Reader
Zur gleichen Zeit
Place in the World Called Paris
Yeniden Dogan; Günlükler ve Deflerler, 1947-1963
Brother Carl
Choroba jako metafora
Davant el dolor dels altres
Renacida
Davant el dolor dels altres
Under the Sign of Saturn
Summer in Baden-Baden
Metafor Olarak Hastalik - Aids ve Metaforlari
Widok cudzego cierpienia
Against Interpretation
Al mismo tiempo
EL AMANTE DEL VOLCÁN
Contra la interpretación y otros ensayos
Olum Tuneli
Über Fotografie
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Wiedergeboren
I, Etcetera
El benefactor / The Benefactor (Spanish Edition)
Contra La Interpretacion
Im Zeichen des Saturn
Death Kit
Benefactor
Under the Sign of Saturn
Illness As Metaphor
En América (In America)
Fotograf Uzerine
Devant la douleur des autres
On Women
Untitled (Essays on Feminism)
A conversation with Susan Sontag
Camp
L'oeuvre parle
הצילום כראי התקופה
Universal Experience
El Sida y Sus Metaforas
Howard Hodgkin Paintings
El amante del volcán
Sobre la fotografía. - 5. edición
ha-Maḥalah ke-meṭaforah
Yo, Etcetera
Fan quan shi
Smotrim na chuzhie stradani︠i︡a
El Silencio en boca de todos
Poklonnik Vezuvii Ła
Tradities van het nieuwe, of Moeten wij modern zijn?
Don McCullin
Un été à Baden-Baden
Rwwm
Resa till Hanoi
L'Ecriture même
Susan Sontag on Paul Goodman and the Dummy/1 Audio Cassette
Todesstation
Jean Vautrin
Jean Vautrin (1933-2015)

film director, film critic, director

  • Institut des hautes études cinématographiques

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The voice of the people
Quatre soldats français
Maîtresse Kristal et autres bris de guerre
Bloody Mary
Dix-huit tentatives pour devenir un saint
Un monsieur bien mis
Le cri du peuple
J'ai fait un beau voyage - Photo-journal 1955-1958
Canicule
Le Cri du peuple, tome 2
Patchwork
A bulletins rouges
Baby boom
Boro s'en va-t-en guerre
Gipsy blues
Le journal de Louise B
Courage, chacun
L' homme qui assassinait sa vie
Si on s'aimait
Crime-club
La vie ripolin
Tardi en banlieue
Le roi des ordures
Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu
Symphonie Grabuge
La dame de Berlin
Billy-ze-Kick
Das Herz spielt Blues
Groom
Docteur Herman et Mister Vautrin
New York, 100ème rue Est
Romans noirs
Typhon-gazoline
En attendant l'eau chaude, ou, Les dessins d'impatience
La vie badaboum
Groom: Crime-journal d'un enfant du siecle
Groom. Crime-journal d'un enfant du siècle
Le pogo aux yeux rouges
Adieu la vie, adieu l'amour
Un Grand pas vers le Bon Dieu
Cri du peuple
Dix Huit Tentatives Pour Devenir Un Sain
Mister Love
Le Cri du peuple, tome 1
Histoires déglinguées
L'homme qui assassinait sa vie
À bulletins rouges
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel (1952-2022)

essayist, literary critic, film critic

  • University of Sheffield, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Bring Up the Bodies
Wolf Hall
The Mirror and the Light
A Place of Greater Safety
Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies - The Stage Adaptation
The Giant O'Brien
Fludd
Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies
Wolf Hall (adaptation)
Beyond Black
Vacant possession
A Change of Climate
Giving Up the Ghost
An Experiment in Love
Every day is Mother's Day
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Eight months on Ghazzah Street
One Hundred And One
Mantel Pieces
Wolf Hall Trilogy (Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / The Mirror & the Light)
Learning to talk
Memoir of My Former Self
Bring Up the Bodies [adaptation]
Matchbook Classics Box Set
Xwolf Hall Pb
Granta #4
Het boek Henry
Wolf Hall Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set By Hilary Mantel
Learning to Talk
Een veiliger oord 1
Comma
Wolf Hall Picture Book
Science of Flight
Curved Is the Line of Beauty
Woman Who Died of Robespierre
Révolution, Tome 1
Third Floor Rising
Ink in the Blood
King Billy Is a Gentleman
Vacant Possession
Three-Book Edition
Hilary Mantel Collection
School of English
How Shall I Know You?
Mens vs. natuur / Diane Cook ; De moord op Margaret Thatcher / Hilary Mantel
How Shall I Know You?
Complete Stranger
Holbein's Sir Thomas More
Talar-e gorg
Leo Perutz
Leo Perutz (1882-1957)

mathematician, playwright, critic, translator

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The Swedish cavalier
Wohin rollst du, Äpfelchen?
Marques de Bolibar
The Marquis of Bolibar (Der Marques de Bolibar)
Little Apple
Swedish Cavalier
The Swedish cavalier
By night under the stone bridge
Meister des jüngsten Tages
Le cavalier suédois
Saint Peter's Snow: A Novel
Judas des Leonardo
Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke
La nuit sous le pont de pierre
Zwischen neun und neun
Mainacht in Wien
El maestro del juicio final
Master of the Day of Judgment
Zwischen neun und neun
Saint Peter's Snow
Leo Perutz, 1882-1957
El Maestro del Juicio Final
Le marquis de Bolibar
Die dritte Kugel
Master of the Day of Judgement
By Night Under the Stone Bridge
Saint Peter's snow
Der Meister des jüngsten Tages
La troisième balle
Le tour du cadran
Der Judas des Leonardo
Die Geburt des Antichrist
El Judas de Leonardo
Turlupin
Der Marques de Bolibar
Der schwedische Reiter
Mientras Dan Las Nueve (Ancora Y Delfin)
Maestro del Juicio Final, El
La Neige de Saint Pierre
Leonardonun Yahudasi
De noche, bajo el puente de piedra
Wohin rollst du, Äpfelchen ...
Der Meister des Jüngsten Tages
The Virgin's brand
Der Joclas des Leonardo
Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
Sankt-Petri-Schnee
Judas van Leonardo, de
Judas de Leonardo
Où roules-tu, petite pomme?
Dokuzla Dokuz Arasinda
La Troisième Balle
Tempo di spettri
Between nine and nine
Where will you fall?
From nine to nine
Marques de Bolibar, El
Kiyamet Gunu Ustasi
Şeytan Tozu
Leonardo'nun Yahuda'si
Zwischen Neun und Neun
The Marquis de Bolibar
Das Mangobaumwunder. Der Kosak und die Nachtigall
Sankt-Petri-Schnee
Herr erbarme dich meiner
St. Petri-Schnee
Die dritte Kugel
Die dritte Kugel
Der Marques de Bolibar
Le Judas de Léonard
Helena 2022
Le Cavalier suédois
Où roules-tu, petite pomme?
Le Miracle du manguier
De noche baja el puente de piedra
Das Mangobaumwunder
Der Meister DES Jungsten Tages (German Edition)
Seigneur, Ayez Pitie de Moi !
Cosaque et le Rossignol (le)
Der Marques de Bolibar
Der schwedische Reiter
Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke
Die Geburt des Antichrist
Between nine and nine
Derenik Demirchian
Derenik Demirchian (1877-1956)

opinion journalist, literary critic, translator, poet, playwright

  • Gevorkian Theological Seminary, Nersisyan School

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Vardanankʻ
The book of flowers
Girkʻ tsaghkantsʻ
Pardanank
Puypuy mukikě
Patmvatskʻner
Erkeri zhoghovatsu
Antsanotʻ ējer
Vardanank (Khtatsowm)
Vardanank
Erker erku grkʻov
Patmuatskʻner
Banasteghtsutʻiwnner
Patmvatskʻner, piesner
Povesti i rasskazy
Derenik Demirchyan
Erkeri zhoghovatsow
Khrabryĭ Nazar
Rasskazy, miniati︠u︡ry
Povesti i rasskazy
Vo imi︠a︡ zhizni