21st lit periodical Flashcards
Miguel Syjuco was a grand prize winner of _____ Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel Ilustrado
2008
Who wrote - Ilustrado – with light shading of New York noir and American thriller; tells the story of a young writer’s apprentice tasked with the self-appointed mission of writing an account of his deceased master’s life. The action that follows takes readers on a journey of metacriticism, which does well to entertain while asking some serious questions about the state of Filipino literature as a whole
Miguel Syjuco (Philippines)
works are known for their complex portrayal of the “female psyche”
Bi FeiYu (China)
some of the highest literary awards in China; - also wrote the screenplay for Zhang Yimou’s 1996 film Shanghai Triad
Bi FeiYu (China)
An example of Bi FeiYu’s work
Three Sisters : an intense and invigorating examination of personality and rampant individualism that’s set in the context of high-Communist China in the years of the Cultural Revolution, does well to draw its readers in with a plethora of storylines that touch on vice, sex, Machiavellian power plays and contemporary politics all at the same time. With its focus on female characters and their interactions with male patriarchs in the China all around them, the book continues in the same vein as Feiyu’s other feminist works, while its general success was galvanized in 2010, when it garnered the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Asian Literature
Shin Kyung Sook was amongst the most highly regarded contemporary writers; became the first Korean writer to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in _____ for her novel Please Look After Mother
2012
has won major literary prizes including the Manhae Literature Prize, the Dong-In Literary Award and the Yi Sang Literary Prize
Shin Kyung Sook (South Korea)
prose is especially prized for its focus on exploring the psychological depths of the human mind.
Shin Kyung Sook (South Korea)
An example of Shin Kyung Sook’s work
Please Look After Mother - driven by the guilt of those closest to ‘Mother’, the saintly, sacrificial old woman who has gone missing in the center of Seoul. Alternating in perspective, from first to second to third person, the novel veers from near accusatory to reflective and explores themes of family in the midst of South Korea’s rapid urbanization and modernization of the past decade
Better known as Vinda
Govind Vinayak Karandikar (India)
Indian poet, writer, literary critic and translator of Marathi language
Govind Vinayak Karandikar (India)
Govind Vinayak Karandikar’s work
- The Wheel
Debuted in Eureka at the age of 19
Yosuke Tanaka (Japan)
Has written poems with stylistic diversity and unique sense of humor
Yosuke Tanaka (Japan)
has emerged as the new poetic sensitivity in Japan, and is sure to remain one of the most important figures in 21st – century Japanese poetry
Yosuke Tanaka (Japan)
Who wrote: A Day When the Mountains are Visible and Sweet Ultramarine Dreams
Yosuke Tanaka (Japan)
Yosuke Tanaka was born Tokyo in ______
1969
a famous Japanese author whose works have been translated into several languagescultural soo
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
not only arguably the most experimental Japanese novelist to have been translated into English, but is also the most popular, with sales in the millions worldwide
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
now the most widely-read Japanese novelist of his generation;
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
he has won virtually every prize in Japan has to offer, including its greatest, the “______ Literary Prize”
Yomiuri
influenced by Evan S. Connell’s 1959 debut novel Mrs. Bridge.
James Brendan Patterson (New York)
James Brendan Patterson published his first novel in 1976 called:
The Thomas Berryman Number
has written 147 novels since 1976, had _____ New York Times bestselling novels, and holds The New York Times record for most #1 New York Times bestsellers by a single author, a total of ____, which is also a Guinness World Record.
114 ; 67
awards include the Edgar Award, the BCA Mystery Guild’s Thriller of the Year, the International Thriller of the Year award, and the Children’s Choice Book Award for Author of the Year.
James Brendan Patterson (New York)
the first author to have No. 1 new titles simultaneously on The New York Times adult and children’s bestsellers lists, and to have two books on Novel Tracker’s top-ten list at the same time.
James Brendan Patterson (New York)
born on March 22, 1947, in Newburgh, New York
James Brendan Patterson (New York)
an American novelist, screenwriter, and philanthropist; has published twenty-one novels and two non-fiction books, all of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 115 million copies sold worldwide in more than 50 languages.
Nicholas Sparks (North Carolina)
Works of Nicholas Sparks
The Choice
The Longest Ride
The Best of Me
Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer)
The Lucky One
Message in a Bottle
A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe,
Dear John,
The Last Song
The Notebook
an American author and YouTube content creator
John Green (Indianapolis, Indiana)
John Green won the ____ Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, and his fourth solo novel, The Fault in Our Stars, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012.
2006
also critiqued books for The New York Times Book Review and created original radio essays for NPR’s All Things Considered and WBEZ, Chicago’s public radio station
John Green (Indianapolis, Indiana)
also critiqued books for The New York Times Book Review and created original radio essays for NPR’s All Things Considered and WBEZ, Chicago’s public radio station
John Green (Indianapolis, Indiana)
The Hunger Games is partly inspired by a._____ and b.______
a. the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
b. Suzanne Collins father’s career in the Air Force
was named one of Time magazine’s most influential people of 2010
Suzanne Collins (Hartford, Connecticut)
had become the best-selling Kindle author of all time
Suzanne Collins (Hartford, Connecticut)
Works were able to connect with the masses as his works reflects modern American life which catered to middle class Americans and their struggles
Billy Collins (New York)
was born in New York, New York on March 22, 1941.
Billy Collins (New York)
was Poet Laureate of the United States between 2001 and 2003.
Billy Collins (New York)
born in Yate, Gloucestershire ; a British writer and philanthropist
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Order of HP books
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
Robert Galibraith (pseudonym): also writes crime fiction like Cormoran Strike series: The Cuckoos Calling 2013, The Silkworm (2014), Career of Evil 2015, Lethal White (2018), and Troubled Blood (2020); The Casual Vacancyin 2012 the books for adult readers; and The Ickabogin 2020 for children as the latest
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
named as the world’s first billionaire author according to Forbes and has lived as a “rags to riches” life. In October 2020, was named as the “Most Influential Woman in Britain.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
was also named a runner-up by Time Magazine in its 2007 Person of the Year
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
was also appointed as a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour at the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to Literature and philanthropy
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
An American writer born in Portland, Maine ; of various genre such as horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Many of his books have been adopted into films, televisions, miniseries, and comic books.
Stephen Edwin King (Richard Bachman)
Works of Stephen Edwin King
Rage (9177),
The Long Walk (1979),
Roadwork (1981), and
The Running Man (1982),
Thinner (1984)
has been described as the ‘King of Horror’
Stephen Edwin King (Richard Bachman)
graduated with a degree in English in 1970 but had no luck for teaching position at first and took a job in laundry and continued writing of short stories in spare time. Became an English educator at Hampden Academy in late 1971 and married fellow writer Tabitha Spruce also that year
Stephen Edwin King (Richard Bachman)
Published an online serialized horror novel “The Plant” (2000), also wrote the digital novella “Riding Bullet’ of the same year.
Stephen Edwin King (Richard Bachman)
In August 2003, also began writing a column appearing in Entertainment Weekly called The Pop King which was attributed to Michael Jackson as ‘The King of Pop”; The Cell (2006); Duma Key (2008) and a collection Just After Sunset (2008); Ur (2009); Throttle a novella co-written with his son Joe Hill; a collection of four novellas called The dark, NO Stars (2010)
Stephen Edwin King (Richard Bachman)
Stephen Edwin King was nominated for the ____ World Fantasy Award Best Novel; Mr. Mercedes was an inspired by a true event about a woman driving her car into a McDonald’s restaurant (2013); Finders Keepers second book (2015); End of Watch (2016); The Outsider (2018); The Institute (2019)
2012
- age of four, was able to read
- writing career began in England as journalist
Neil Richard Mackinnon Gaiman
- a British writer who earned critical praise and popular success with richly imagined fantasy tales that frequently features a darkly humorous tone
- is credited with being one of the creators of modern comics, as well as an author whose work crosses genres and reaches audiences of all ages
Neil Richard Mackinnon Gaiman
Neil Richard Mackinnon Gaiman was listed in the Dictionary of ____ ______ as one of the top ten living post-modern writers and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama
Literary Biography
Neil Richard Mackinnon Gaiman’s work
Children’s book:
Coraline (2002)
film (2009)
InterWorld (2007)
with Michael Reaves)
and the two sequels
The Silver Dream, (2013)
Eternity’s Wheel (2015)
Neil Richard Mackinnon Gaiman also received the ____ ___ for his distinguished contribution to literature for children for The Graveyard Book (2008), then an adult novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)
Newbery Medal
an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and television producer
George Raymond Richard Martin (GRRM / George R.R. Martin)
Game of Thrones (2011) was originally inspired from ?
“A Song of Ice and Fire” an epic fantasy novels
GRRM. First story to be nominated for the Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards
“With morning Comes Mistfall”
GRRM. the only short story of Martin that have won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award as the Best Novellete and the Locus Award for best novellete
“Sandkings” (1979)
GRRM. first novel that completed in 1976 and published in 1977
“Dying of the Light”
GRRM. A horror novel that essentially destroyed his career due to unexpected commercial failure, this was considered as his “lost year”
Armagedon Rag (1983)
epic fantasy series, A Song of Fire and said to be inspired by
a.
b.
c.
a. Wars of the Roses
b. The Accursed Kings and c. Ivanhoe
Any work written in Latin or the vernacular between c. 476-1500 CE
Medieval Period (500-1500)
A celebration of ideas of the human mind through action and science
Age of Enlightenment (1700-1800)
Concerned with masses instead of the middle class and the individual instead of the society
Romantic Movement (1798-1870)
an effort to replicate the true nature of reality in a way that novelists had never attempted
Realism (1820-1920)
Characterized by simplicity, truth and tempered emotions
Victorian Period (1837-1901)
Emphasizes the individual existence, freedom and choice
Existentialism (1850)
Identifies the underlying causes for a person’s actions or beliefs
Naturalism (1870-1920)
Writers free to try new concepts like the use of the unreliable narrative
Modernism (1910-1945)
a famous Columbian novelist, short story writer, journalist, screenwriter and a Nobel Prize winner in 1982 for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent’s life and conflicts
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo)
had written the most endearing and memorable stories of magic realism in Latin American fiction: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in time of Cholera, and Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo)
received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1972) and Nobel Prize in Literature awardee (1982).
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo)
a Mexican novelist and essayist
Carlos Fuentes Macias
was described by The New York Times as “one of the most admired writers in the Spanish Speaking World” and an important influence in the Latin American Boom while The Guardian called him “Mexico’s most celebrated novelist
Carlos Fuentes Macias
- literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Belisario Dominguez Medal of Honor (1999) as Mexico’s highest award and was often a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won
- The Death of Artemio Cruz, Aura, Terra Nostra, The Old Gringo and Christopher Unborn
Carlos Fuentes Macias
- a Peruvian Spanish writer whose commitment to social change is evident in his novels, plays, and essays
- awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa
- an unsuccessful candidate for president in Peru year 1990
- wrote about this experience “A Fish in the Water: A Memoir” (1993) and became a citizen of Spain and was awarded the Cervantes Prize of the same year.
Mario Vargas Llosa
“The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto” (1997), The feast of the Goat (2000, filmed 2005), The Way to Paradise (2003) The Bad Girl (2006), The Dream of the Celt (2010), The Discreet Hero (2013) and The Neighborhood (2016)
- made his acting debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid, where he appeared as a duke in Tales of the Plague his stage adaption of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron.
Mario Vargas Llosa
a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist
Julia Alvarez
one of the most significant Latina writers and she has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale
Julia Alvarez
- novels : How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her works as a poet include Homecoming (1984), and The Woman I kept to Myself (2004) and Something to Declare (1998) was her autobiographical compilation as an essayist.
Julia Alvarez
- Won National Medal of Arts (2014) from President Obama
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez’s works are influenced by her experiences as a Dominican in the United States and focuses heavily on issues of ______ and ______
assimilation and identity
- known for works that examine cultural expectations of women both in the Dominican Republic and the United States, and for rigorous investigations of cultural stereotypes
Julia Alvarez
