Authors photos [Archive] - World Literature Forum

saliotthomas

18-Oct-2009, 15:27

I like nice photos of authors and very seldom i'm desapointed by the physique of an writer be it in good or bad.
I think a face tells a lot about the personne.
Look at Dan Brown,the kind of face turning a non-violent to a slapping frenzy.He must have had an hard time in school.

Here we go with Bukohttp://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp96mzXm5x1qzxy1so1_500.jpg

Jayaprakash

18-Oct-2009, 16:45

http://ambientehotel.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/climbers1.jpg

M. John Harrison, always given to scaling heights not meant for everyone.

saliotthomas

22-Oct-2009, 17:42

Cool one Jayaprakash.

Talking about Chatwin ,this one was with the art of travel.

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00083/chatwin_corbis_83272s.jpg

And this one of Theroux.(In a french train)

http://eltercerhombre.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/paul-theroux1.jpg?w=540&h=397

ferns_dad

22-Oct-2009, 20:01

2 of my favorites

(photo too big for page: click here (http://www.johnminihan.com/resources/images/bacon/large/Francis%20Bacon%20and%20William%20Burroughs,%20Lon don%201989%20%282%29.jpg) to see it)

miercuri

22-Oct-2009, 22:01

I absolutely love this picture of Carson McCullers :)
http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/uploads/1986_96.jpg

also Zadie Smith is gorgeous:
http://193.235.159.34/foton/abfoton/L%C3%A5guppl%C3%B6sta/zadie_smith2005pres.jpg

Jayaprakash

23-Oct-2009, 02:58

I see your Carson McCullers and raise you Jane Bowles:

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/0bdad0db7f2bae1a_landing

Oh heck, here's Djuna Barnes too:

http://www.sleepinanestofflames.com/Web%20pictures/Djuna_Barnes_by_B_Abbott.jpg

There's something a little overly slick about that Smith pic. Was she doing a shoot for GQ?

Jayaprakash

23-Oct-2009, 03:03

I like this photo of RK Narayan.

http://www.outlookindia.com/images/rk_narayan_20070820.jpg

Jayaprakash

23-Oct-2009, 03:07

Here is William Burroughs again. He loved guns, famously shot his wife dead with one and was frequently photographed with them.

http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/books/gallery/2009/jan/06/william-burroughs-royal-academy-art/burro3-8073.jpg

beelzebubbles

23-Oct-2009, 03:21

Try this site.

The Inge Morath Foundation (http://www.ingemorath.org/artist/slideshow.asp?Portfolio_ID=007)

Lots of pics of celebs and writers. Inge Morath is wonderful photographer.

Unfortunately, they keep monkeying with the site and you can't enlarge the photos anymore which is a shame as they are quite detailed. Morath has a genius for using place to comment on the character of her subjects.

Definitely, check out her work with Sol Steinberg if you can find it. Delightful and whimsical.

Jayaprakash

23-Oct-2009, 03:30

Some very good picks there. I love the Vincent Price one, wish it wasn't so dinky though.

Notice how everyone's posted b&w pics?

beelzebubbles

23-Oct-2009, 03:44

Glad you like them. My favorites are of Philip Roth, Norman Mailer and a slightly goofy one of Pablo Neruda.

http://www.topnews.in/files/Philip_Roth.jpg

Notice how everyone's posted b&w pics?

You know I had to be the iconclast! ;)

Mirabell

23-Oct-2009, 10:19

from one old man in color to a few b/w old men with actual talent:

Ezra Pound

http://thisrecording.com/storage/Pound.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1247855800511

Mirabell

23-Oct-2009, 10:19

http://thisrecording.com/storage/pkdwithcat.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=12488366 12540

Philip K. Dick

Mirabell

23-Oct-2009, 10:22

http://2ndphilolog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/adorno.jpg

Theodor W. Adorno

Mirabell

23-Oct-2009, 10:26

http://thisrecording.com/storage/berryman.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1247856462 352

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/3047770391_6c303c53d8.jpg

John Berryman

saliotthomas

23-Oct-2009, 13:26

Great pics,i really like the Janes Bowles in Tanger.

here some more

http://www.nuitblanche.com/imageElement/10752.GIF

I was very sorry the thread one Mishima did have photos,(and the rest actually)so here are some of the man.

http://transientwriting.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/mishima3.jpg

http://sensitivitytothings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/mishima2.jpg

This is specialy for Clarissa,he does look like Redford :D

http://www.ullamontan.com/foton/portratt_int_forfattare/jean-marie_le_clezio_l.jpg

And finishing with Huber Selby in the French cover of the demon

http://hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/selby-demon.jpg

Daniel del Real

23-Oct-2009, 17:18

A little tribute to the master of them all

http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/2158911/2159086/2159087/070206_CL_JorgeLuisBorgesEX.jpg

Here a picture with Italo Calvino:

http://www.internetculturale.it/upload/immagini/borges1.jpg

with Derrida

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~jcarlyon/d_borges.jpg

Borges and S?bato:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Ratti-Videla-Sabato-Borges-Castellani.jpg

Finally, with J.G. Ballard

http://www.ballardian.com/images/borges_y_ballard.jpg

ferns_dad

23-Oct-2009, 18:28

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DCBQ3nptxo0/Sbf4nWCqo0I/AAAAAAAABt4/bli4E1Fe1vI/s320/faulkner_pic.jpg

Jayaprakash

24-Oct-2009, 03:19

Javier Marias:

http://parrafeando.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/marias.jpg

More topless authors - WH Auden, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/02/26/books/spender-span.jpg

Sarah Hall is a new-ish author whose books I admire a lot:

http://www.bookgroup.info/graphics/authors/SarahHall.jpg

This is one of my favourite pictures of Joyce Carol Oates:

http://www.reaaward.org/assets/images/Joycecaroloates001.jpg

Asimov was one of my first favourite authors:

http://illbethejudgeofthat.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/asimov2.jpg

But Samuel Delany radically rewired my notions of what SF could be:

http://fc2.org/delany/delany.jpg

Some woman who has earned the right to call her books whatever the hell she wants to:

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/international/photosvideos/photos/margaret-atwood.jpg

ferns_dad

24-Oct-2009, 19:04

http://www.poetryconnection.net/images/Herman-Melville.jpg

ferns_dad

24-Oct-2009, 19:08

http://www.amdg.ie/images/gallerydecember-2008/sartre_01.jpg

miercuri

24-Oct-2009, 21:55

J
Some woman who has earned the right to call her books whatever the hell she wants to:

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/international/photosvideos/photos/margaret-atwood.jpg
Mrs Atwood is fierce!

Eric

25-Oct-2009, 00:17

Well, let's do a few authors (names under the photos):

http://www.ristikivi.net/img/1.jpg

Karl Ristikivi

*

http://metabolism.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/mare_kandre.jpg

Mare Kandre

*

http://img-fan.theonering.net/middleearthtours/images/edelfeldt.jpg

Inger Edelfeldt

*

http://users.telenet.be/gaston.d.haese/woestijne.jpg

Karel van de Woestijne

*

http://www.librarything.com/picsizes/ac/e0/8dfa0139aa1721a77103fed1586c6570.jpg

Charles Morgan

*

http://klassikaraadio.err.ee/images/files/Jaan_Kross1.jpg

Jaan Kross

*

http://beeld.boekboek.nl/DeBezigeBij/internet/auteursfoto's/aui_vestdijk_s_32585.jpg

Simon Vestdijk

*

http://2008.ostergotland.info/BildMapp/KA/1kinda/persongalleri/Walter-Ljungquist177.jpg

Never heard of them? Hard luck. I don't do glamour shots. These are authors not film stars.

stephendedalus

25-Oct-2009, 00:43

http://www.michaelchabon.com/Michael_Chabon/Photos_2_files/DSC_0357.jpg

I dig this photo of Michael Chabon.

Mirabell

25-Oct-2009, 00:59

Well, let's do a few authors

Yes, let's. ;)

Funhouse

25-Oct-2009, 01:33

http://chartroose.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/paul_auster_2031.gif
Paul Auster

http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/barth/wp-content/uploads/barth-funhouse.jpg
John Barth

http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/books/gallery/2008/sep/02/1/Salman-Rushdie-9127.jpg
Salman Rushdie

Funhouse

25-Oct-2009, 01:37

The many expressions of Patrick White (such a happy man):

http://bandofthebes.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341cc27e53ef01156fb7601f970c-600wi

http://www.portrait.gov.au/collection/0/404/lg_Patrick%20White%20-%20William%20Yang.jpg

http://antipodeanowl.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/patrick-white.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/11/02/260_patrickwhite.jpg

saliotthomas

25-Oct-2009, 15:00

And now the dark side.....

If this is not a pure a..h..e face,i'll be damned.

http://www.southwestern.edu/studentlife/orgs/megaphone/wp-content/themes/tma/images/posts/dan_brown.jpg

this one look nice but beware it's Clive cussler

http://www.cusslerbooks.com/images/clive_cussler_int.gif

Wilbur and his new daughter...hummm...wait...wife from Kazacstan

http://www.wilbursmithbooks.com/img/shared/WS_Wilbur_and_Niso_2.jpg

And the brain,(watch the very author like photo thumb-on-chin an' all) Paolo

http://universofantastico.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/paulo-coelho_foto3.jpg

ferns_dad

25-Oct-2009, 17:36

http://home.roadrunner.com/~dylanology/images/celine.jpg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2009/9/4/1252080850609/The-novelist-JM-Coetzee-001.jpg

http://www.liv.ac.uk/~magedera/Genet1.jpg

http://www.nigeldennis.com/stock/images/mammals/species/genet/25604.jpg

Eric

25-Oct-2009, 19:53

I think the meerkat or whatever it is looks rather sweet, and C?line looks like Bukowski. But who's the man with the rubber face and the big chin?

I can't stand the creepy looks of that Australian citizen whose photo is the second one. Sends shudders up, or down, your spine. He really looks pathologically weird. You don't even need to give him ET eyes and ears, like Funhouse's Mrs Manoly has, to make him look sinister.

Vonnegut looks as if he's just shat himself. And Truelove Capote's also doing an ET lookalike, pulling at his mask. Here's my avatar in younger days:

http://www.wsp.krakow.pl/apismo/nr9/kultura/gombr2.jpg

And older ones:

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/1/2685/z2685281X.jpg (http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/radom/5,35232,5780966.html?i=5)

Igu Soni

25-Oct-2009, 20:34

I can't stand the creepy looks of that Australian citizen whose photo is the second one. Sends shudders up, or down, your spine. He really looks pathologically weird. You don't even need to give him ET eyes and ears, like Funhouse's Mrs Manoly has, to make him look sinister.
Are we talking bout Coetzee here?

Mirabell

25-Oct-2009, 20:53

But who's the man with the rubber face and the big chin?

genet, no?

Bjorn

25-Oct-2009, 21:50

I always thought this photo of (then) horror writer Poppy Z Brite was rather fitting:
http://www.poppyzbrite.com/errata/pzb1.gif

And you have to admire a writer who can carry off a big afro...
http://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/wole_soyinka.jpg

...or a big hat, for that matter.
http://www.nndb.com/people/962/000043833/terry-pratchett-crop.jpg

But of course, nobody beats this:
http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00163/Pynchon_163442a.jpg

ferns_dad

25-Oct-2009, 22:02

Genet and genet cat

Liam

25-Oct-2009, 23:12

My god, look at all the freaks!!!

:p:p:p

~ L

Liam

25-Oct-2009, 23:15

Probably my favorite "author's photo" EVER:

http://wunderbred.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/virginia_woolf.jpg

L.

Liam

25-Oct-2009, 23:27

And if you can guess who this lady is, you're my new best friend (it's a rare photo of her):

http://i045.radikal.ru/0904/1d/7cfc137dfbce.jpg

~ L.

Jayaprakash

26-Oct-2009, 03:37

Naiyer Masud, a writer of dark, surreal Urdu short stories:

http://www.urdustudies.com/auinfo/auphotos/masudN.jpg

Saadat Hasan Manto, another excellent Urdu writer:

http://aawaaz.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/manto-720874.jpg

OV Vijayan, one of the most significant Malayalam authors:

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/03/31/images/2005033106451101.jpg

Bruno Schulz, whose work would fit well with Masud's:

http://www.berlin.polemb.net/gallery/nasze_obrazy/kultura/Literatura/Bruno_Schulz.jpg

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Krzhizhi.jpg/180px-Krzhizhi.jpg

Suitably dignified, Theodor Storm:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Theodor_Storm_1886.JPG

Francis Wyndham, very under-productive, very worthwhile:

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00046/wyndham_lathigra_46050t.jpg

Cordwainer Smith, king of science fiction:

http://www.fantascienza.com/magazine/imgbank/ARTICOLI/cordwainer-smith_1.jpg

Gene Wolfe, maker of myths:

http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/wolfe.jpg

Another SF giant, RA Lafferty:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/0/1667.jpg

MR James:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/james/mr/portrait.jpg

saliotthomas

26-Oct-2009, 17:02

A young Chester Himes

http://trashotron.com/agony/images/2004/04-columns/08-09-04-2/himes-young.jpg

Romain Gary And wife Seberg.

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/maurice.villard/images/Romain%20Gary02.jpg

The beauty and the smurf

http://www.theamericanmind.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/rushdie-wife.jpg

also hanghovered Gaiman and new girl friend.

http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/bookshelves_of_doom/images/2007/08/28/neil_gaiman.jpg

and Irving or Clooney?

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2005/bioimages/irving.jpg

Bjorn,who said you need to be black t have an Afro?

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/aspects/assets/ejt1002/public_html/projet/AZ/Perec.jpg

Not a big fan of Duras but this one is cool. Yoda.

http://nogoodforme.filmstills.org/images/marguerite-duras-writer-paris-may-21-1993-richard-avedon.jpg

And to finish Thomas Mcguane(yeah) ,Tennessee Willams and someone?

http://www.kwls.org/lit/kwls_blog/McGuane_Louies.jpg

Eric

26-Oct-2009, 17:45

Some writers are certainly funny-looking buggers (like Jean Gannet, if that is he). Do you think they write great tomes of wisdom and entertainment to compensate for their appearance?

I think that Liam's fur-hatted lady is Marina Tsvetaeva. What gives it away (if it is she) is the "ts" letter in Cyrillic. There aren't too many Russian writers whose names begin with "ts". Can I now be your best friend?

As for Perec, he had nearly as much of an Afro on his chin.

Bruno Schulz looks like an emaciated Gordon Brown (though I prefer the former's stories).

Duras: say no more.

Igu Soni: yes, Coetzee. I just can't stand the look of him, with that wry mouth and doleful-killer eyes. He looks like a psychopath, although I'm sure he's very cuddly, really.

Daniel del Real

26-Oct-2009, 18:21

Masters of modern narrative:

Kenzaburo Oe:

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/535/747/20090131/dyn010_original_238_300_pjpeg_2535747_0114370b8ca3 8d110d7c7f327759ae64.jpg

Haruki Murakami:

http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/haruki-murakami-163912.jpg

Orhan Pamuk:

http://lemondegala.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/orhan-pamuk.jpg

J.M. Coetzee

http://slowmuse.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/image0011.jpg

Finally a really young and hippie Roberto Bola?o:

http://bullmurph.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bolano_roberto_250_buffer__v20857165_.jpg (http://bullmurph.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bolano_roberto_250_buffer__v20857165_.jpg)

ferns_dad

26-Oct-2009, 20:05

http://www.themodernword.com/SCRIPTorium/kelman.jpg

http://www.themodernword.com/SCRIPTorium/Robbe-Grillet.jpg

Liam

26-Oct-2009, 20:35

I think that Liam's fur-hatted lady is Marina Tsvetaeva.
DING!!!

Eric wins the Best Friend of the Year Award--

;)

L.

miercuri

26-Oct-2009, 22:41

Probably my favorite "author's photo" EVER:

http://wunderbred.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/virginia_woolf.jpg

L.

One of mine too. :)

Romain Gary And wife Seberg.

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/maurice.villard/images/Romain%20Gary02.jpg

This is lovely, right click+save!

Finally a really young and hippie Roberto Bola?o:

http://bullmurph.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bolano_roberto_250_buffer__v20857165_.jpg (http://bullmurph.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bolano_roberto_250_buffer__v20857165_.jpg)
Awesome! I had absolutely no idea what he looked like and this is definitely not how I pictured him.

Here are my two favourite Mirceas

Mircea Cărtărescu
http://fotopoeziemuzica.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/mircea_cartarescu_by_cosmin_bumbutz.jpg

and Mircea Eliade
http://www.clubmistic.ro/pozearticole/userfiles/image/mircea-eliade.jpg

Diotima

26-Oct-2009, 23:10

Arthur Rimbaud

http://i34.tinypic.com/9kavm9.jpg

Paul Verlaine

http://i37.tinypic.com/2eutxmq.jpg

Diotima

26-Oct-2009, 23:17

S.Gontard-Diotimahttp://i34.tinypic.com/2pynpxu.jpg

Holderlinhttp://i34.tinypic.com/ayrd5c.jpg

Diotima

26-Oct-2009, 23:18

Paul Austerhttp://i33.tinypic.com/315d5k5.jpg

Jayaprakash

27-Oct-2009, 03:31

It's true, Padma Lakshmi does look like a Smurf.

Jane Yolen, another spinner of myths:

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2003/bioimages/yolen.jpg

The brilliant Alan Moore, who needs no introduction (and no barber):

http://dailypop.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/alanmoore.jpg

This bloke's written a couple of pretty good novels:

http://anhedoniapoetry.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/nick_cave_02.jpg

A toast from Bohumil Hrabal:

http://www.twistedspoon.com/images/hrabal.jpg

A few hard-boiled gents. Georges Simenon:

http://robertarood.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/simenon_georges.gif

Dashiell Hammett:

http://www.lib.umd.edu/RARE/IMG/HardBoiled/hammet.jpg

Raymond Chandler:

http://4.media.tumblr.com/T4oL9c0wZera7g2b87RP4A6ho1_400.jpg

Jayaprakash

27-Oct-2009, 04:01

Great writers of the weird:

Arthur Machen:

http://www.madlion.co.uk/images/ArthurMachen.JPG

Algernon Blackwood:

http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/dliterature/authors/blackwood/gallery/ab2a.jpg

Lord Dunsany:

http://alangullette.com/lit/dunsany/dunsany.jpg

HP Lovecraft:

http://alangullette.com/lit/hpl/hpl2.jpg

Clark Ashton Smith:

http://alangullette.com/lit/smith/casyoung.jpg

Fritz Leiber:

http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/FrtizLeiber.jpg

Thomas Ligotti:

http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/999img/ligotti.jpg

Jeff VanderMeer:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YhrLAYLQ8So/SMcx4VN99HI/AAAAAAAAEeg/gjxrhw0OK9A/s400/Jeff+Vandermeer.jpg

China Mieville:

http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/images/china.gif

miercuri

27-Oct-2009, 09:12

Has no one posted Graham Swift?
http://www.bombsite.com/images/attachments/0002/8388/Swift_01_body.jpg

and here is Raymond Radiguet
http://www.alalettre.com/pics/radiguet.jpg
I also stumbled upon a Modigliani portrait of Radiguet
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_f9oFJleDnOw/SUIltc6PNNI/AAAAAAAABFY/umjLE3aCUzI/s400/427px-Raymond_Radiguet_by_Modigliani,_1915,_private_coll ection.jpg

saliotthomas

27-Oct-2009, 13:00

A few more

Graham Green

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2004/10/17/books/greene3.450.jpg

Pelecanoshttp://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2008/08/07/PelecanosGREY460.jpg

Lethem

http://briccommunitymedia.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/jonathan_lethem.jpg?w=450&h=444

Thomas Bernhard

http://18.media.tumblr.com/CCi4G8DeEq7a05xvJ0xuryNIo1_500.jpg

ok i'm not being fair.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/authphoto_330/2147_bernhard_thomas.jpg

Prevert

http://pierre-michel.fr/lexique/2009/avril/images_avril/jacques-prevert-1955.jpg

Simone and the smurf.

http://8.media.tumblr.com/7f5j0qCEPpu9m76twETlWBmEo1_400.jpg

Eric

27-Oct-2009, 13:58

I must say that the last few batches look a bit more normal. Graham Swift looks like a gay icon while still wearing clothes, so I dread to think what Thomas Bernhard is trying to show us all. Looks like Putin without the poo. Lovecraft looks a bit creepy but his craft was creepy too.

In Diotima's large gallery, Arthur Rambo looks to be a bit of a lip-biting thug.

I didn't guess it was Tsvetaeva till I saw the "ts". A fur hat does point to Russia, but the slight popeyed effect could have been anyone. We do indeed usually have one clich?ed photo of her when she was somewhat older, with a silly haircut; and mostly ones with more schnozzle:

http://villatelesio.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/300px-tsvetaeva.jpg

http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/images/tsvetaeva/tsvetaeva-photo-1.jpg

Her coiffures were rather plain, I feel. And who's this beardless wonder:

http://www.quotesandsayings.com/quotes/dh-lawrence/dh-lawrence-quotes.jpg

And this balding chappie:

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/thomas_hardy.jpg

And this Scots poet in his Tam O'Shanter:

http://www.nrcboeken.nl/files/imagecache/schrijver_groot_560/files/images/auteur/afbeelding1/August_Strindberg_photographic_selfportrait_1.jpg

And this connoisseur of boys with scissors:
http://bibliotecaetsitupm.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/224201portrait-of-andre-gide-1891-92-posters.jpg
And this chubby cheeked chappie:

http://www.freepedia.co.uk/The%20Web%20Site%20Backup/Journalists/JpriestleyJ.jpg

And this unemployed opera singer:

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/english/about-us/Staff/Motion/photo03.jpg

Finally, Old Monkeyface in the Year of Revolutions (a kind of Andrew Marr earalike):

http://flag.blackened.net/tolstoy/lt_1848.jpg

Diotima

27-Oct-2009, 18:52

Edgar Poe

http://i36.tinypic.com/213j4ma.jpg

Green_Lovecraft

http://i38.tinypic.com/3146kpc.jpg

Diotima

27-Oct-2009, 18:55

Guy De Maupassant

http://i36.tinypic.com/fuyk36.jpg

Daniel del Real

27-Oct-2009, 21:13

Here's one of the most photogenic authors (he's got tons of great pictures)
Julio Cortazar (and his cat):

http://atomikaztex.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/cortazar.jpg

Onetti:

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/fotos/20090216/notas/na28fo01.jpg

S?bato:

http://sabato90.com.ar/sabato_junto%20a%20la%20estatua%20de%20ceres_en%20 su%20casa500.jpg

A really young Octavio Paz

http://www.revistadelauniversidad.unam.mx/5108/volpi/imgs/51volpi06.jpg

Juan Rulfo:

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/img/2009/10/Cul/rulfojnnt.jpg

Galatea92

27-Oct-2009, 21:54

Simone and the smurf.

http://8.media.tumblr.com/7f5j0qCEPpu9m76twETlWBmEo1_400.jpg

With Sartre played by Tim Roth and Simone de Beauvoir by Liv Tyler.

miercuri

27-Oct-2009, 23:20

Here's one of the most photogenic authors (he's got tons of great pictures)
Julio Cortazar (and his cat):

http://atomikaztex.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/cortazar.jpg

S?bato:

http://sabato90.com.ar/sabato_junto%20a%20la%20estatua%20de%20ceres_en%20 su%20casa500.jpg

These two are great pictures! And Cortozar gets extra points for kitteh!

I googled for authors with cats and found this Guardian article: Authors' mews: writers and their cats | Books | guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/nov/12/writers-and-cats)
Take a look!
Here is Jack Kerouac + feline companion
http://laist.com/attachments/tony/jackkwithcat.jpg

Daniel del Real

27-Oct-2009, 23:36

Murakami makes a constant reference to cats in all his books.
Cortazar loved cats. One was named Theodore W. Adorno, and I think is this one in the picture.

http://actualidadliteratura.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/julio-cortazar.jpg

Peeping Tom

28-Oct-2009, 05:07

Here's one of a young Haruki Murakami with cat.

51

learna

28-Oct-2009, 07:45

The photo of Romain Gary and his wife Seberg is marvelous.

learna

28-Oct-2009, 09:50

These are the most famous portraits of Pushkin by Kiprensky and his wife Goncharova by my favourite artist Brullov.
http://s46.radikal.ru/i111/0910/f3/45c1a925b9c0.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)
http://s39.radikal.ru/i086/0910/08/34e39c3d3646.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)

learna

28-Oct-2009, 10:13

Antoine de Saint Exupery

http://i045.radikal.ru/0910/5b/66d6157c4d1f.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)

learna

28-Oct-2009, 10:29

Romain Gary

http://s07.radikal.ru/i180/0910/28/952b3426edbb.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)

Funhouse

28-Oct-2009, 10:44

Australians:

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2008/05/05/2_Winton_080502121516996_wideweb__300x375.jpg
Tim Winton

http://images.smh.com.au/ftsmh/ffximage/2009/05/29/richardflanagan_narrowweb__300x466,0.jpg
Richard Flanagan

http://www.arts.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0007/82492/david-malouf-web.jpg
David Malouf

http://pastevents.beaumarisbooks.com.au/images/Peter%20Carey%20photo.jpg
Peter Carey

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/03/13/sonya_hartnett_wideweb__470x305,0.jpg
Sonya Hartnett

http://www.ozarts.com.au/__data/assets/image/0005/19175/Kate_Grenville_-_Profile_image.jpg
Kate Grenville

Funhouse

28-Oct-2009, 10:53

New Zealanders:

http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/06/08/1244506807_6475/539w.jpg
Janet Frame (see Kate Grenville above)

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01177/arts-graphics-2007_1177601a.jpg
Katherine Mansfield

http://www.literaryfestivals.co.uk/images/authors/lloyd_jones.jpg
Lloyd Jones

http://www.english.hawaii.edu/tradewinds/1_4/Ihimaera%20Witi%202007%20small.jpg
Witi Ihimaera

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/83/5d/9591810ae7a000656155d110.L.jpg
Carl Shuker

Eric

28-Oct-2009, 11:28

Any guesses for the 7 in #56. All famous authors. No Estonians.

I still claim that Lovecraft looks creepy, even next to his flooze.

Cort?zar looks unspeakably brow-creased with his cat.

miercuri

28-Oct-2009, 15:49

@Eric - I noticed DH Lawrence but that's about it.

Daniel del Real

28-Oct-2009, 19:41

Here's one of a young Haruki Murakami with cat.

51

Great picture. I was trying to find a Murakami+cat photo and couldn't find any. Thanks a lot Tom

miercuri

28-Oct-2009, 20:01

Margaret Atwood + cat

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/50459320.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=4996399091E83186F6F5C9496244ACE2191F19EEEB4B00E7

Norwegian Forest cat by the looks of it. :) Too bad there's a watermark.

edit: because I can't help it

Mark Twain
http://blogs.catster.com/the-cats-meow-a-cat-and-kitten-blog/files/2009/07/twain.jpg

Hunter S Thompson
http://blogs.catster.com/the-cats-meow-a-cat-and-kitten-blog/files/2009/07/thompson.jpg

Capote
http://blogs.catster.com/the-cats-meow-a-cat-and-kitten-blog/files/2009/07/capote.jpg

Flower

28-Oct-2009, 21:23

Here's one of the most photogenic authors (he's got tons of great pictures)
Julio Cortazar (and his cat):

http://atomikaztex.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/cortazar.jpg

What a nice photo!

It looks like they are really talking to each other! :)

Daniel del Real

28-Oct-2009, 22:26

Hey, I like a lot this pictures of authors and cats. Incredible pictures, but as I wasn't able to find more here is another facet:
Authors and their loves:

Saramago and his wife Pilar

http://weblogs.clarin.com/revistaenie-unmillondeamigos/archives/pilar%20y%20jos%E9.jpg

Pamuk and his daughter:

http://www.outlookindia.com/images/photoessays/orhan_pamuk_daughter_nobel_BPE_20070115.jpg

Auster and his daughter Sophie (she's a hottie, It would be great to have Paul Auster as father in law :D)

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e262/tryno/PaulAusterSophieAuster2007.jpg

miercuri

28-Oct-2009, 23:02

It would be great to have Paul Auster as your father!

On to couples/loved ones
Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss, judging by the way they write these two are one true pairing
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/502050595_02b2240b41.jpg

and here is one of the many pictures of Mr and Mrs Vladimir Nabokov playing chess :)
edit: where did it go???
http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/50579127.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=4996399091E831867750DC4BDD15146D8311D4CE3AE77CED

Igu Soni

29-Oct-2009, 07:19

http://16.media.tumblr.com/QtyE6FlyNq3qb44cPeGSK5Tro1_500.jpg
Dave Eggers and wife (she remind anyone else of Kate Winslet in The Reader?).

Jayaprakash

29-Oct-2009, 10:30

Gosh, Tim Winton is a hunk.

Lovecraft and Felis, creepy as you want them to be:

http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/Lovecraft-and-Felis.jpg

Here's Doris Lessing with a cat:

http://www.irandokht.com/images/Doris-lessing-cat.jpg

Hemingway preferred killing cats. Look at the smile on that sonuvabitch. Ugliest thing on this thread.

http://www.unsv.com/voanews/specialenglish/scripts/2008/03/16/0045/jfkl_hemingway_hunting_w_se.jpg

Here's a much nicer picture. Edward Gorey and his cats. I too spend many a lazy afternoon just so.
http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens1523286module47033552photo_1248041598edw ard_gorey_cats.jpg

Eric

29-Oct-2009, 12:34

Yes, Miercuri, the chinful wonder was indeed D. H. Lawrence; this was before he started sporting a beard. The next bloke wrote tragic novels and made up place names. The Scots poet isn't Scots at all. The boy-with-scissors chap is one of Europe's better known gay Protestant authors. The chubby cheeky chappie came from Yorkshire, but spent most of his writing life in London. The unemployed opera singer worked as a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, UK. And the frowning Andrew Marr lookalike, with the sticking-out ears is perhaps the most famous Russian author of all, as a young man.

Eric

29-Oct-2009, 13:04

Here are a few more to guess at, all Nobel prizewinners for literature, so that narrows the field down a bit:

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:VBeIOlZa4ghpfM:http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ransomedition/2004/fall/images/14.jpg (http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ransomedition/2004/fall/images/14.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ransomedition/2004/fall/singer.html&usg=__KBEq8fp2ymkaM6TWmIVCJ6wn_6U=&h=295&w=225&sz=10&hl=et&start=46&um=1&tbnid=VBeIOlZa4ghpfM:&tbnh=115&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3DIsaac%2BBashevis%2BSinger%26ndsp%3D20 %26hl%3Det%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN%26as_qdr%3Dall%26start %3D40%26um%3D1)
This chap was ginger before he went bald.

http://www.logoi.com/notes/img/young_churchill.jpg
This chap was a war correspondent.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Russell1907-2.jpg/150px-Russell1907-2.jpg (http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/wiki/Bestand:Russell1907-2.jpg)
This chap was a bit of a philosopher.

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/535/747/20080725/dyn001_original_295_211_pjpeg_2535747_999ad4fec4aa d2d5976ba7dc920c4ac2.jpg
This chap loved crowds and power.

http://www.indyweek.com/binary/d732/hal-18471.jpeg
This chap married an aristocrat.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/18/books/essay-190.jpg
This chap was a friend of Anthony Powell.

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/09/97209-004-FA7CEEB7.jpg
This chap's just plain scruffy.

http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/szymborska/s.jpg
This chap is a lady.

saliotthomas

29-Oct-2009, 14:07

Not a big fan of Ellis but this photo shows the big blob he really is.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WfT2SX59vKM/SWhZ_fmf5HI/AAAAAAAAAXE/ilAiXTawpKc/s400/d_Brett_Easton_Ellis-736597.jpg

Boris karloff,author of brooklyn and the master.

http://old.harbourfrontcentre.com/ifoamedia/images/authors/sm/toibin_colm_author.jpg

Mistry really has a nice face,one feel like he could be a friend.

http://old.harbourfrontcentre.com/ifoamedia/images/authors/sm/mistry_rohinton_author.jpg

which is not the case with this fellow

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jSAcDCLUID8/SRVBfaybrII/AAAAAAAAASw/aJ0UBqfPwPc/s400/hemingway_with_shotgun2.jpg

Here is dear Boris Vian jazzman and writer.

http://plison.agora.eu.org/blog/files/images/bvian3.jpg

And one of my wife countryman,Roddy.

http://old.harbourfrontcentre.com/ifoamedia/images/authors/sm/doyle_roddy_author.jpg

Jayaprakash

29-Oct-2009, 16:01

The war correspondent is Winston Churchill. The philosopher's Bertrand Russell. Powell's buddy is VS Naipaul. Is the lady Pearl Buck?

Galatea92

29-Oct-2009, 17:43

This chap married an aristocrat.
Harold Pinter

This chap's just plain scruffy.
G?nter Grass

This chap loved crowds and power.
Elias Canetti?

Eric

29-Oct-2009, 17:52

You're doing quite well, Jayaprakash, three out of four.

So the rightly guessed answers for the first and second batch of guesses:

First batch at #57:

D.H. Lawrence; ***; ***; ***; ***; ***; ***.

There's a Swede, three Englishman, a Frenchman, and a Russian left to guess, not necessarily in that order.

*

The second batch at #80:

***; Winston Churchill; Bertrand Russell; ***; ***; V.S. Naipaul; ***; ***.

Still five to guess. My favourite photo there is that incredibly scruffy chappie in the penultimate photo wearing a jacket and a bulging open shirt. Just imagine him in SS uniform! In that guise he would not have got on with the ginger chappie at the top. The lady is not novelist Pearl Buck, but a poet.

Igu Soni

29-Oct-2009, 17:59

The Russian dude is Tolstoy, right?

learna

29-Oct-2009, 18:10

Russian Nobel prizewinner for literature looks like ...

Iosif Brodsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Michail Sholokhov, Boris Pasternak and Ivan Bunin were Russian Nobel prizewinner for literature.

learna

29-Oct-2009, 18:36

The fourth is Mark Twain.

Igu Soni

29-Oct-2009, 18:40

The fourth is Mark Twain. But, if I'm not mistaken, he was a laureate of Nobel prize.

Nope. Didn't have that idealism thing Nobel wanted.

Daniel del Real

29-Oct-2009, 19:10

Gosh, Tim Winton is a hunk.

Here's a much nicer picture. Edward Gorey and his cats. I too spend many a lazy afternoon just so.
http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens1523286module47033552photo_1248041598edw ard_gorey_cats.jpg

What a great picture. I envy him so much at this moment!

Galatea92

29-Oct-2009, 21:56

Galatea92

29-Oct-2009, 21:59

Galatea92

29-Oct-2009, 22:02

Galatea92

29-Oct-2009, 22:12

This chap is a lady...

...called Wislawa Szymborska.

Galatea92

29-Oct-2009, 22:18

Galatea92

29-Oct-2009, 22:35

In that guise he would not have got on with the ginger chappie at the top.

I couldn't work out who the ginger chappie was ... until I clicked on the image to get a better look :). It's Isaac Bashevis Singer. He escaped me because the picture looked so old - I hadn't thought of looking for a Nobel prizewinner from the seventies.

It's funny, of all the Nobel pictures you put up, I think he's the only one I've read :).

Jayaprakash

30-Oct-2009, 02:39

Graves. In keeping with Eric's quizzing ways, I'll leave it to you figure out whose.

http://www.famouspeoplebiographyguide.com/images/George-Orwell-Timeline.jpg

This is only a detail of the gravestone, but it should suffice:

http://www.dquinn.net/images/lovecraft-grave.jpg

A mysterious figure leaves roses and cognac at this grave each year, to mark its occupant's birthday:

http://www.msac.org/images_uploaded/poe_grave07.jpg

Igu Soni

30-Oct-2009, 04:21

Jayaprakash:
First pic says 'Eric Arthur B---'.
Second pic of H.P. Lovecraft's tomb.

Jayaprakash

30-Oct-2009, 07:17

Lovecraft it is. Eric Arthur who is the question, or, well you'd have got it, by George!

Yes, there is a clue somewhere in there.

Igu Soni

30-Oct-2009, 07:18

George Orwell.

I remember the story around third pic. Leaning towards Borges, but not sure.

Jayaprakash

30-Oct-2009, 07:28

Yes, that's the grave of George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair.

As for the last grave - cast your thoughts further north.

Igu Soni

30-Oct-2009, 07:29

F*** you, guess-this-photo-ers. None of you can get these, mostly because you probably haven't read them(all good authors, I assure you):
http://www.thehindu.com/lr/2006/08/06/images/2006080600390101.jpg
(According to me, the most exciting Indian English writer)

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/07/18/images/2003071804270101.jpg
(Great poet, though better known for his prose)

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_iPNcVBmC8mg/Rj7dM8pUZSI/AAAAAAAABkc/nchZ-fqljms/kolhatkarArun_posterizeColour1.jpg
(Brilliant poet.)

Jayaprakash

30-Oct-2009, 08:19

Vikram Seth, Arun Kolatkar. I have no idea who the first bloke is.

Igu Soni

30-Oct-2009, 10:33

Vikram Seth, Arun Kolatkar. I have no idea who the first bloke is.
:o. Forgot where you were from.

Here's a couple more(still good writers):
http://www.githahariharan.com/images/about/githa_hariharan.jpg

http://im.rediff.com/movies/2007/aug/14look3.jpg
(haven't actually read this guy, but has been recommended)

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/11/09/Elmore_Leonard_071109121003120_wideweb__300x375.jp g
Lightweight, but good.(This one should be easier)

Eric

30-Oct-2009, 11:25

I like games on occasions. We had such guessing competitions on other chatsites with excerpts from novels. But that was too easy. Anyone can paste in the quote and Google for the answer. It's more difficult with photos.

Anyway, although one would oneself be loath to use the word "dude", yes Igu Soni, that chap with the ears is indeed Count Leo Tolstoy.

Learna, none of your Russians came up trumps I'm afraid. Igu Soni beat you to the answer. The fourth chap in the second batch may look a bit Twainy, but is in fact Elias Canetti. I gave the clue by "Crowds and Power", the title of one of his books which Galatea no doubt picked up.

Galatea is also right about the chubby-cheeked Yorkshireman: J.B. Priestley. You usually see photos of him when he was much older. You must have posted about the same time as I did because you also swept the board with Pinter, and Mr Dress Sense, G?nter Grass, and I didn't see your replies. And Gide. I'd forgotten which novel it was, but he had a thing about Arab boys. Thomas Hardy usually managed to hide his bald patch for photos, I feel. And Galatea also got Bash-a-Fish Singer (ginger is a colour you associate more with Celts than Jews) and the inimitable Wislawa Szymborska as a younger lady.

I was being unfair on poor old Andrew Motion, but that was the rottenest photo of him I've ever seen.

What about the Swede (aka the deliberately misleading "Scots poet") in the Tam O'Shanter and long proofed raincoat. We've talked about him quite a lot here. Here he is playing the guitar:

http://www.momondo.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/alsenas/Statues_5F00_D.jpg

learna

30-Oct-2009, 12:48

Tolstoy was a major and undisputed candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905. But he considered that the award didn't accord with his beliefs and principles and he asked his friend A. Yarnfelt "... get me not be awarded the prize... " Yarnfelt carried out the request very carefully and secretly by establishing the Nobel Committee literary intrigue.And, as a result, D. Carducci, Italian poet, got the Noble Prize.
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was denied the Nobel Prize.

Bjorn

30-Oct-2009, 13:02

Learna: so he didn't want to get it, but he was denied getting it? :confused:

Well, he's a novelist too...

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/richardjgibson/NickCave-before.jpg

Galatea92

30-Oct-2009, 13:22

What about the Swede (aka the deliberately misleading "Scots poet") in the Tam O'Shanter and long proofed raincoat. We've talked about him quite a lot here. Here he is playing the guitar:

http://www.momondo.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/alsenas/Statues_5F00_D.jpg

That's Strindberg. He's got a funny mouth, hasn't he? He always looks as though he's sucking on an invisible straw.

By the way, I recognised Elias Canetti because I once read an article about how Iris Murdoch had a weird master-slave kind of relationship with him. He sounded like a kooky guy, so I remembered him.

The Gide book about the Arab boys is The Immoralist. (That makes two of your Nobel prizewinners I've read). But why scissors?

Jayaprakash

30-Oct-2009, 14:09

Bjorn: I'd already posted a mustachioed Nick Cave! That's twice he's featured in this thread. Not bad for a post punk yeller.

learna

30-Oct-2009, 14:22

[QUOTE=Bjorn;41943]Learna: so he didn't want to get it, but he was denied getting it? :confused:

I didn't want to translate the whole story :), I only wanted to write that Tolstoy hadn't got the Noble Prize in Literature.
By the way, Leo Tolstoy was nominated for the prize for 5 years (from 1902 to 1906).

learna

30-Oct-2009, 14:52

He is one of my favourite writers, too.
Boris Vian.

http://i038.radikal.ru/0910/9c/05245755902c.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)

Galatea92

30-Oct-2009, 17:25

A mysterious figure leaves roses and cognac at this grave each year, to mark its occupant's birthday:

http://www.msac.org/images_uploaded/poe_grave07.jpg

With a bit of image manipulation I managed to read the name on the tombstone (is that cheating? :)). It's Edgar Allan Poe.

Igu Soni

30-Oct-2009, 17:35

With a bit of image manipulation I managed to read the name on the tombstone (is that cheating? :)). It's Edgar Allan Poe.
Nah. I read out Orwell.

ferns_dad

30-Oct-2009, 17:36

Hemingway and the 12ga? Priceless

Here's Amos Tutuola, I've read most of his stuff, but the Palm Wine Drinkard is pretty amazing!!

http://bvi.rusf.ru/fanta/foto/tutuolaa.jpg

ferns_dad

30-Oct-2009, 17:47

and this craggy faced pug is the highly popular Cormac McCarthy. Pretty awesome writer, but I feel him to be a bit of a racist.

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/mccarthy.gif

Igu Soni

30-Oct-2009, 19:20

and this craggy faced pug is the highly popular Cormac McCarthy. Pretty awesome writer, but I feel him to be a bit of a racist.

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/mccarthy.gif
There used to be a really ugly pic of him in wikipedia, but it's been taken down.
I found it using google:
http://images.askmen.com/specials/2007_top_49/men/cormac_mccarthy.jpg

Also, since no one's really interested in the obscure writers I put up: the first guy in the first post is Vikram Chandra, the second post has Githa Hariharan, Akhil Sharma and Elmore Leonard.

ferns_dad

30-Oct-2009, 19:39

Elmore Leonard belongs right up there with Faulkner as the writer of some great film dialog

Coen Brothers, also

http://www.topnews.in/light/files/Coen%20Brothers.jpg

Daniel del Real

30-Oct-2009, 20:11

Kadar? and Camus

http://193.235.159.34/foton/abfoton/L%C3%A5guppl%C3%B6sta/ismail_kadare_V07_pres_1.jpg

http://17.media.tumblr.com/koBJdk6EOk4jj6mtyv1MtHlGo1_500.jpg

Galatea92

30-Oct-2009, 21:20

Daniel del Real

30-Oct-2009, 21:31

Continuing the guessing, here are two pictures of authors when they were younger. Who are them?

http://ffh.films.com/Common/FMGimages/37106_full.jpg

http://www.gonzalobarr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/loboantunes.jpg

miercuri

30-Oct-2009, 21:45

http://bibliotecaiie.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/patricia-highsmith.jpg

http://www.noir.pl/images/Patricia-Highsmith.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01178/arts-graphics-2007_1178425a.jpg

And there's also a rather erotic photograph of her here (http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/uploaded_images/highsmiththree-721597.jpg)
I love her, she looked masculine but delicate at the same time. She aged well too. Not to mention, she could certainly write suspense.
Her wiki picture is also awesome!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Pathigh.jpg

beelzebubbles

30-Oct-2009, 22:21

He is one of my favourite writers, too.
Boris Vian.

http://i038.radikal.ru/0910/9c/05245755902c.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)

What is that strange looking instrument he is playing?

Eric

31-Oct-2009, 11:17

Galatea, the scissors were mentioned because, for some reason the Arab boy in what I now know was "The Immoralist" was playing with them in the novel. See:

The Immoralist Summary & Study Guide - Andre Gide - eNotes.com (http://www.enotes.com/immoralist/)

One day, Michel sees one of the boys, Moktir, steal a pair of his wife?s sewing scissors. Instead of reprimanding Moktir, or taking the scissors away from him, Michel lies to his wife about why the scissors are missing. After this incident, Michel finds that Moktir is his favorite of the children.

*

Yes, it's Strindberg, funny mouth or no. Unlike Strindberg, Boris Vian looks as if he's trapped the cat's tail in his weird guitar-like instrument. Talking of Boris, here's a comic novelist, author of "Seventy-Two Virgins" and other books, patriotic to a tee:

http://alcopop.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/boris-johnson-bike_667500n.jpg

The comic novel in question is about the House of Commons being taken over by Islamic fundamentalists, as can maybe be guessed from the title.

I like the English flag; similar ones with one or more red crosses crop up all over the place where Saint George is revered, e.g. Georgia.

And what I also like is that the English have that kind of sense of humour that such an erudite buffoon can become the Mayor of London, not to be confused with the post of Lord Mayor of London, as held by the legendary Dick Whittington.

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Of Daniel's photos of two men, the upper one looks very familiar, but I can't put my finger on the name.

Highsmith looked rather sweet when she was young, but a good deal more crabby as an older lady, steeped in cigarette smoke, no doubt.

learna

31-Oct-2009, 12:29

What is that strange looking instrument he is playing?

It looks like unusual guitar.

beelzebubbles

31-Oct-2009, 12:46

It looks like unusual guitar.

Come on Learna go out on a limb and make up a convincingly weird name for it--it is a 'leikastrava' found mainly in the Balkans--some plausible lie like that.

I read a little about Vian on wikipedia and it says that he was an accomplished trumpet player. I am going to go out on a limb and say that that thing is not a trumpet.

saliotthomas

31-Oct-2009, 12:58

It looks like unusual guitar.

could be a cat'har,like a guitar but you can fit a cat in.It use to be the symbole of a religious secte in the south of France Langedoc exterminated in the XIII century. Here Cathars and Cathar Beliefs in the Languedoc (http://www.cathar.info/)
I guess Boris could have secretly belonged to a revival branche...

beelzebubbles

31-Oct-2009, 13:00

learna

31-Oct-2009, 15:34

could be a cat'har,like a guitar but you can fit a cat in.It use to be the symbole of a religious secte in the south of France Langedoc exterminated in the XIII century. Here Cathars and Cathar Beliefs in the Languedoc (http://www.cathar.info/)
I guess Boris could have secretly belonged to a revival branche...

Very interesting ;):)
I can only add one more connection between cats and religious from "Foam of the Days"(LXV)

-She was so sweet, said Colin. Never was she bad, neither in thought, nor in action.
-That has nothing to do with religion, mumbled Jesus, yawning. He shook his head a little to change the slant of his crown of thorns.
- I don't see what we've done, said Colin, we don't deserve this.
He lowered his eyes. Jesus did not answer. Colin raised his head. Jesus's chest was rising softly and regularly, his features breathed calm, his eyes had closed and Colin could hear a light purr of satisfaction coming from his nostrils, like a cat.

saliotthomas

01-Nov-2009, 13:22

http://www.illuminafilms.nl/images/JohnDust.jpg

John Fante

http://img.timeinc.net/time/europe/hero2006/images/200_mafhouz.jpg

Mafhouz

http://www.peter-cameron.com/images/petercameron-330-Antonchekhov.jpg

Chekhov

http://www.peter-cameron.com/images/petercameron-330-Yves.jpg

Yves Navarre

peter_d

01-Nov-2009, 14:55

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9uuIarcA33Q/ShkxZx-C7PI/AAAAAAAAAfM/TT5PUW0XAVA/s400/mulisch+vesuvius.jpg

From left to right: Mount Vesuvius, Harry Mulisch (the real subscript to this photo on the backside of his Novel The Pupil, illustrating Mulisch' arrogance in an ironic way that I always loved.)

Having seen so much bare author skin on this thread, I thought this one should not be left out.

Mirabell

01-Nov-2009, 15:48

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/535/747/20081217/dyn004_original_209_300_pjpeg_2535747_a420fb7d7ea4 18254b361ed878caf0dc.jpg

http://www.buecher-wiki.de/uploads/BuecherWiki/doeblin-biografie_cover.jpg

Eric

01-Nov-2009, 16:51

I've only seen Moo-Leash once in the flesh, at a tram stop outside the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. But he was fully clothed, wearing a white somewhat dandyish suit.

The following lady hasn't written anything but she should have done. After looking at all those endless hairy naked men, like Yves "Bucho" Navarre, I was beginning to feel like a bit of tit to brighten things up a jot, and lower the whole tone. So here's a hot and Hungarian lady; starred in porn films, married Koons, and, curiously, offered to have sex with Saddam Hussein, if he'd stop producing weapons of mass destruction. Given the fact that they didn't find any, he must have got his leg over. She must be 90 by now:

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,272446,00.jpg

And now back to Strictly Authors Only (no porn stars, philosophers, or A.J.P. Taylor in leather, please):

http://www.showchina.org/en/Exchange/03/200705/W020070730507788336555.jpg
The postman

http://www.poems.net.au/images/george-eliot-poet1.jpg
Marian

http://www.nndb.com/people/176/000044044/swinburne-1.jpg
A poet

http://bluehydrangeas.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/alfred-lord-tennyson.jpg
King Alfred

http://www.franklin.ma.us/auto/upload/schools/horace/307-ww1841.jpg
Another poet

http://www.hmc.org.qa/heartviews/VOL5NO3/images/chekhov%20copy.JPG
A short-story writer, when young.

http://static.epl.ee/pildid/2009/normal/154030.jpg
A lonely novelist

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42172000/jpg/_42172718_antonia_fraser_203.jpg
Married a commoner

Igu Soni

01-Nov-2009, 17:47

The (ex-)short story writer is Barrie, right?
And Tennyson is kinda obvious, man.

Eric

01-Nov-2009, 20:30

No, Igu Soni, the short-story writer also wrote other things too. I merely selected the stories. This portrait sketch doesn't much look like what he looks like in later photos, which I won't reproduce here as it'll give the game away immediately. However, you managed to spot Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

I've been looking at Mirabell's two photos several times and can't pin them down, though the bespectacled gent looks somehow familiar.

Apart from the Hungarian titty girl (who later became a politician, an MP, no less, for a while!), there are five Brits and a Yank among those photos. The naked lovely is not ninety, but a mere 56.

miercuri

01-Nov-2009, 23:37

Titty girl is Ilona Staller aka Cicciolina. In 80's Romania one could get her porn flicks on tape, off the blackmarket. She was quite popular among students and since few people owned VCRs back then, I can image watching porn was more like a group activity.
George Eliot in the third picture would prolly frown upon it all.

Mirabell

01-Nov-2009, 23:47

two poets

http://17.media.tumblr.com/0rXIVVNH3m590vreXj1JKUjRo1_500.jpg

one novelist

http://gypsysavage.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/norman-mailer.jpg

one nonfiction writer

http://celebrityandworld.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/jenna-jameson.jpg

one short story writer and novelist:

http://www.katjaheinemann.com/content/photos/RichardFord_01.jpg

beelzebubbles

02-Nov-2009, 01:31

I don't know who the poets are but the others are Norman Mailer, Jenna Jameson and Richard Ford.

I don't know who the handsome novelist with the glossy coat and the cold nose is.

Maybe it's Millie?

peter_d

02-Nov-2009, 01:33

The following lady hasn't written anything but she should have done. After looking at all those endless hairy naked men, like Yves "Bucho" Navarre, I was beginning to feel like a bit of tit to brighten things up a jot, and lower the whole tone. So here's a hot and Hungarian lady; starred in porn films, married Koons, and, curiously, offered to have sex with Saddam Hussein, if he'd stop producing weapons of mass destruction. Given the fact that they didn't find any, he must have got his leg over. She must be 90 by now

For those interested in what becomes of the son of a Cicciolina like porn star and a Jeff Koons like artist should read Caesarion, the latest novel of (i.m.o. the most promising) Dutch author Tommy Wieringa. It is available in German and I was told that it will appear in English and French soon (although I can't find that confirmed on the web...). Some more info is available here (http://www.nlpvf.nl/book/book2.php?show=all&book_vertid=7024&Book=712).

And because this thread is about pictures, here is one of the mentioned author:

http://arendskronenburg.arnhemseboekhandels.nl/assets/www.blz.nl/Interviews/Tommy-Wieringa.jpg

Jayaprakash

02-Nov-2009, 03:30

He wrote a couple of humorous novels:

http://www.abovetheaether.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/bruce_dickinson.jpg

He wrote about cities in flight:

http://www.nndb.com/people/762/000115417/james-blish-1-sized.jpg

He writes about many things, including whisky:

http://www.darkcorners.hu/data/cikkek/big/iainbanks.jpg

Drinking buddy of the above:

http://www.zone-sf.com/images/kenmacleod2.jpg

This is what I call a non-fiction author:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2002/140/6430432_1022004319.jpg

He used to hang out with Hawkwind:

http://michaelhaulica.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/michaelmoorcock.jpg

He used to edit a magazine with the chap above and has since moved ijto a very different genre:

http://www.jamessallis.com/images/JimSAug07.gif

He writes about fairies and things like that:

http://www.faber.co.uk/site-media/asset-images/thumbs/9035_jpg_280x450_q85.jpg

Eric

02-Nov-2009, 09:03

Yes, Miercur' (#136), it's la Cicciolina. She looked rather attractive back in the 1980s, even when you only saw her face. She is not very full-bosomed. Given the bimbos that Berlusconi has around him, this porn star and singer proved to have much greater mettle, becoming an Italian MP. Thanks Peter D (#139) for pointing out the book about the fate of the son. The author with the cat is certainly Wieringa, as I've seen his mugshot on the back of books.

And Miercur' also got right the lady of perhaps less pin-up quality, but one of England's best and best-known 19th century novelists, Marian Evans.

The Postman is a serious and well-received novelist from the same era as Evans and both the poets remaining poets after Tennyson has been guessed are very well known. The lady on the end is the mirror aspect of a clue in one of my previous line-ups; she is now a widow. The man on the jetty may prove much harder to get; I saw this photo for the first time before I posted it here.

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I too guessed the slouching novelist to be Norman Mailer, but the others in Mirabell's #137 are unfamiliar. The non-fiction lady looks like a transvestite.

Jayaprakash sets us a teaser in #140. The third one down with the pepper & salt beard is surely a Scots writer whose name eludes me, maybe Ian Sinclair, not sure.

The non-fiction author with the pudgy face and G?nter Grass-style moustache is also familiar, but I can't put a name to him.

Eric

02-Nov-2009, 09:10

What have these got in common?

http://publikart.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Stieg-Larsonn.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_X6F4HnEqbd8/Sq0gs0QEw4I/AAAAAAAAD2Y/Sl2_jNGdSZU/s400/jan+guillou.jpg

http://dagensbok.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy/images/authors/hakannesser.jpg

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/boundedtile/2009/0207/1233867924418_1.jpg
http://www.sweden.se/upload/Sweden_se/english/articles/SI/2006%20uppdaterad/On%20the%20trail/author_mankell_sweden.jpg

Funhouse

02-Nov-2009, 09:47

both the poets remaining poets after Tennyson has been guessed are very well known. The lady on the end is the mirror aspect of a clue in one of my previous line-ups; she is now a widow.

One of the poets is Swinburne. The lady on the end is Antonia Fraser.

Funhouse

02-Nov-2009, 09:58

Jayaprakash's "humorous novelist" is more famous for his music: that's Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson. The third one down is not Iain Sinclair, as Eric speculated, but Iain (M.) Banks. The "non-fiction author with the pudgy face and G?nter Grass-style moustache" is Stephen J Gould. The guy who "used to hang out with Hawkwind" is Michael Moorcock.

Eric

02-Nov-2009, 10:55

Yes, Funhouse, you are correct about Swinburne and Mrs Pinter. Thanks Funhouse with the Scot. I knew his face was familiar, but aI haven't read many Scots authors beyond Neil Gunn and the odd MacDiarmid poem. I must look up Stephen Gould, the face rings a bell, not the name, though.

And these five? Anyone? Two of them are incredibly sold best sellers. Household names, in fact.

hdw

02-Nov-2009, 11:46

Bjorn

02-Nov-2009, 12:24

#2 is Eric's favourite, Jan Guillou.

These are your beards. All five of'em. Know your beards.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/beergood/beard1.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/beergood/beard2.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/beergood/beard3.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/beergood/beard4.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b339/beergood/beard5.jpg

Mirabell

02-Nov-2009, 12:49

I don't know who the poets are but the others are Norman Mailer, Jenna Jameson and Richard Ford.

I don't know who the handsome novelist with the glossy coat and the cold nose is.

Maybe it's Millie?

The poets are both from the New York School.

Mirabell

02-Nov-2009, 12:53

wrote, acted and directed. unlaced her shoes.

http://obstinados.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/sarah-kane1.jpg?w=383&h=300

SlowRain

02-Nov-2009, 13:28

I've always liked this picture of le Carr?. It's my second favorite picture of him--although most pictures of him are pretty creative. Just do a quick Google search and you'll see what I mean. My favorite picture of him was a grainy photo on the back of the Canadian hardcover release of The Night Manager, published by Viking. I think it was taken by the Douglas Brothers, but I can't find it online. It lent a nice ambiguity to the novel. His next novel, Our Game, had an even grainier one, also by the Douglas Brothers, but I think it went a little too far.

Sorry for the size of this one, but I couldn't find a bigger one.

http://www.walkerbooks.com/nonfiction/authors/photos/lecarre-l.gif

Jayaprakash

02-Nov-2009, 13:41

Funhouse: All correct guesses.

Eric

02-Nov-2009, 17:45

SlowRain, the picture of David Cornwell looks more like Nosferatu.

Bj?rn's beardy weirdies: Don't know the first one, looks like General Grant; Dostoevsky; Henry Gibson; Don't know that one either, though he looks a bit like opera chappie Verdi; The last one's the same as one of the photos I posted. Another of him after a visit to the barber's:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/PaxRomano/walt-whitman-photograph.jpg

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Yes, Harry and Bj?rn, they are: Stieg "Bestseller" Larsson; Jan "Spy" Guillou; H?kan "Will-Self-Lookalike" Nesser, Kerstin "Academy Dropout" Ekman; Henning "Ingmar Bergman's son-in-law" Mankell. The Russian headgear gives KGB talent scout Guillou away. They're still bitching about his dodgy past in Sweden.

But what, genristically, have they in common apart from their nationality?

ferns_dad

02-Nov-2009, 17:48

Beardies

first H Melville
second FM Dostoyevski

miercuri

02-Nov-2009, 18:01

wrote, acted and directed. unlaced her shoes.

http://obstinados.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/sarah-kane1.jpg?w=383&h=300
Sarah Kane :)

Heteronym

02-Nov-2009, 18:09

The Portuguese are severely underrepresented here. That needs fixing:

Dishavelled Jos? Saramago
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll252/Aleph99/jose-saramago.jpg

Jos? Saramago surrounded by books
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll252/Aleph99/sarmgrev2.jpg

Fernando Pessoa walking in Lisbon
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll252/Aleph99/06.jpg

Fernando Pessoa (who died from cirrhosis of the liver)
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll252/Aleph99/em_flagrante_delitro.jpg

The creepy eyes of Almada Negreiros
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll252/Aleph99/Almada_Negreiros.jpg

M?rio Cesariny, the last great surrealist poet
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll252/Aleph99/MarioCesariny.jpg

beelzebubbles

02-Nov-2009, 21:34

The poets are both from the New York School.

Well with that clue I figured one had to be John Ashbury. So I googled him and found the pic with himself and Frank O'Hara.

Of all the others, the only one I have recognized is Stephen Jay Gould, popular science author and evolutionary biologist.

miercuri

02-Nov-2009, 22:32

http://www.act-sf.org/images/content/pagebuilder/11387.jpg
this guy knows his Shakespeare

Funhouse

02-Nov-2009, 22:53

http://www.act-sf.org/images/content/pagebuilder/11387.jpg
this guy knows his Shakespeare

In almost every photo of Tom Stoppard he has a cigarette. I like this much younger photo of him...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2006/06/05/tomstoppard1.jpg

Eric

03-Nov-2009, 01:43

Heteronym #155. It must be telepathy. I was thinking yesterday about doing Portugal. But I could only think of Pessoa and Saramago.

Miercuri's #157 looks like Tom Stoppard the Czech-born Englishman, as Funhouse has already guessed. I recognised him from the older photo; wouldn't have guessed the earlier one.

beelzebubbles

03-Nov-2009, 03:10

In almost every photo of Tom Stoppard he has a cigarette. I like this much younger photo of him...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2006/06/05/tomstoppard1.jpg

He looks like a more sensual member of The Beatles there.

Liam

03-Nov-2009, 03:39

Not sure if his novels are sufficiently literary or if his biographies are sufficiently well-researched, but I always thought the dude was hot.

And he doesn't live too far away; d'ya think I ought to travel up and ask him to put his bookmark in my quarto? :p

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/02/ec/90c08149e7a0f8b16155d110.L.jpg

http://www.williamjmann.com/rw_common/themes/alpha/images/billbeach.jpg

Cheers,
L

Johan

03-Nov-2009, 04:19

More quizzing.

http://www.zofijini.net/img/bartol.jpg

http://www.gonzalobarr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/don-delillo.jpg

http://trashotron.com/agony/images/2003/03-news/02-10-03/lem.jpg

http://www.fokus.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/kul-stig-dagerman.jpg

http://ferdyonfilms.com/Algren.jpg

http://home.online.no/%7Ebmatos/artimages/Albanian_Novelist_Ismail_Kadare,photographed_april _14_1987.jpg

http://languageisavirus.com/donna_tartt_photos/albums/uploads/donna-tartt/thumb_donna_tartt_34.jpg

http://bluehydrangeas.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/burgess.jpg

http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/authorpics/cohen%20leonard%20young.jpg

Liam

03-Nov-2009, 05:52

More quizzing.
I thought that quizzes were for kids, :p--

L.

Eric

03-Nov-2009, 09:16

Quizzes are for kids. But we have all retained some childlike aspects to our brains. Fun is fun, at any age. One of the most hawkish news background programme presenters in Britain, Jeremy Paxman, still finds time to chair the slightly up-market quiz programme "University Challenge".

Looking at Johan's mugshot's:

1) P?r Lagerkvist?

2) Don't know.

3) Stanislaw Lem.

4) Familiar. Who? Stig Dagerman?

5) Don't know.

6) Familiar. Who? Mahfouz?

7) Donna Tartt?

8) Anthony Burgess.

9) Haven't a clue. Maybe Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen when young.

Eric

03-Nov-2009, 09:41

I hadn't heard of him till ten minutes ago, but here he is:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VnC-1-zqb-o/SJmEwXktT1I/AAAAAAAAAJg/6HiTd0XRFdM/s400/FelisbertoHernandez.jpg

And a few more authors:

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:5iIQbhTFF-H0aM:http://www.mcq20cwalk.mistral.co.uk/jpegs/wyndham.jpg (http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mcq20cwalk.mistral.co.uk/jpegs/wyndham.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mcq20cwalk.mistral.co.uk/sf.htm&usg=__wRbBcCLxLgNeSrBAH_sh-YZGa-0=&h=354&w=311&sz=21&hl=et&start=1&um=1&tbnid=5iIQbhTFF-H0aM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=106&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJohn%2BWyndham%26hl%3Det%26sa%3DG%26a s_qdr%3Dall%26um%3D1)

http://imworld.aufeminin.com/dossiers/D20081117/ANNA-Gavalda-dim-jpeg-172545_L.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2R3MJ0Y9LVY/SdLbkikRUFI/AAAAAAAAH1A/tlcDplPZJe4/s400/clarice_lispector2.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qG6uIwNCCGA/SLVezbo491I/AAAAAAAAASQ/zlmY1eDq2ZQ/s400/edith-sodergran.jpg

http://www.tsitaat.com/cache/images/herbjorg_wassmo_400px.jpg

http://www.nndb.com/people/421/000079184/arnold-bennett-1-sized.jpg

http://reporter.leeds.ac.uk/530/pics/bennett.jpg

Flower

03-Nov-2009, 14:38

Flower

03-Nov-2009, 14:47

Eric

03-Nov-2009, 14:58

I'm absolutely sure of Ibsen, Whitman and Dostoevsky, but the fourth remains a mystery. Though I now remembered and saw that the first is the inventor of the captain of the Pea Pod (that was surely it's name...).

And the ones in #165. The very first is Uruguayan; the second wrote about cuckoos and moving plants; the third is perhaps the most popular French author today; the fourth was Ukrainian (sort of); the fifth wrote a few poems in Russian and German; the sixth is Norwegian; and the seventh and eighth have the same surname.

Igu Soni

03-Nov-2009, 15:44

Who is this???
Vikram Chandra

Flower

03-Nov-2009, 16:10

More quizzing.

http://ferdyonfilms.com/Algren.jpg

Do I spot a young Arthur Miller?

Johan

03-Nov-2009, 17:13

Eric

03-Nov-2009, 18:06

Johan

03-Nov-2009, 18:27

I must say, Johan, that I'm not the world's greatest authority on Slovene writers; I'd never hear of Vladimir Bartol. Nor have I read any Don DeLillo. And Swedish converts to Judaism are not my speciality either. Cohen looks pretty ancient nowadays. I should have guessed the Kadare. Anyway, I'm quite happy with four out of nine.

Convert to Judaism? Who?

I'll admit that a few of my choices were on the obscure side, but I am surprised that no one recognized Delillo.

Alamut is a great book, a cautionary tale on the dangers of fanaticism(Bartol originally wanted to include a sarcastic dedication to Mussolini) set in medieval Persia.

Eric

03-Nov-2009, 19:21

I glanced too rapidly at the Nelson Ahlgren entry on the Wikipedia. It was in fact Nelson's grandfather who converted to Judaism. Wiki quote:

Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side. His father was the son of a Swedish convert to Judaism and a Jewish American woman, while his mother (who owned a candy store) was of German Jewish descent.

Anyway, he's partly Swedish by ancestry and a bit Jewish. The Wiki article is quite informative about him:

Nelson Algren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Algren)

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I see from the Wikipedia that there are two Vikrams Chandra one at Berkeley, the other (Vikram A. Chandra) at Stanford, re?nforcing my prejudices about Anglo-Indian authors: they run off to American universities to promote Indian writing, leaving behind all those poor authors writing in indigenous languages to fend for themselves.

ferns_dad

03-Nov-2009, 20:02

Only one I know is Dostojevsky! :)

First is Melville.

http://languageisavirus.com/donna_tartt_photos/albums/uploads/donna-tartt/thumb_donna_tartt_34.jpg

hmmmmmmmmmmmm..........................

looks like

http://www.tvacres.com/images/peel_suit.jpg

now this pleasant looking woman is one of my favorite historians, Barbara Tuchman. Died 'way too young at 77.....

http://www.antiqbook.info/nl/tips/plaatjes/tuch000.jpg

ferns_dad

03-Nov-2009, 20:08

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2R3MJ0Y9LVY/SdLbkikRUFI/AAAAAAAAH1A/tlcDplPZJe4/s400/clarice_lispector2.jpg

Clarice Lispector.

separated at birth from Lydia Lunch?

http://streptos-music.noblogs.org/gallery/672/lydialunch.jpg

Flower

03-Nov-2009, 21:33

First is Melville.

http://languageisavirus.com/donna_tartt_photos/albums/uploads/donna-tartt/thumb_donna_tartt_34.jpg

hmmmmmmmmmmmm..........................

looks like

http://www.tvacres.com/images/peel_suit.jpg

now this pleasant looking woman is one of my favorite historians, Barbara Tuchman. Died 'way too young at 77.....

http://www.antiqbook.info/nl/tips/plaatjes/tuch000.jpg

No. 2 is Dosto!

Eric

03-Nov-2009, 22:05

I'd never heard of Lydia Lunch (though I've looked her now on the Wiki), but I can't see her as a twin of Lispector. I do think that Lispector looks like the typical rather attractive-ethereal Eastern European Jewess, which she indeed was except for by an accident of birth. There are lots of photos of Lispector at various ages, but I like that one best.

There are still several major European authors (and one Latin American one) to go from my last batch, i.e. all except Lispector:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VnC-1-zqb-o/SJmEwXktT1I/AAAAAAAAAJg/6HiTd0XRFdM/s400/FelisbertoHernandez.jpg

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:5iIQbhTFF-H0aM:http://www.mcq20cwalk.mistral.co.uk/jpegs/wyndham.jpg (http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mcq20cwalk.mistral.co.uk/jpegs/wyndham.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mcq20cwalk.mistral.co.uk/sf.htm&usg=__wRbBcCLxLgNeSrBAH_sh-YZGa-0=&h=354&w=311&sz=21&hl=et&start=1&um=1&tbnid=5iIQbhTFF-H0aM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=106&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJohn%2BWyndham%26hl%3Det%26sa%3DG%26a s_qdr%3Dall%26um%3D1)

http://imworld.aufeminin.com/dossiers/D20081117/ANNA-Gavalda-dim-jpeg-172545_L.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qG6uIwNCCGA/SLVezbo491I/AAAAAAAAASQ/zlmY1eDq2ZQ/s400/edith-sodergran.jpg

http://www.tsitaat.com/cache/images/herbjorg_wassmo_400px.jpg

http://www.nndb.com/people/421/000079184/arnold-bennett-1-sized.jpg

http://reporter.leeds.ac.uk/530/pics/bennett.jpg

Daniel del Real

03-Nov-2009, 23:55

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VnC-1-zqb-o/SJmEwXktT1I/AAAAAAAAAJg/6HiTd0XRFdM/s400/FelisbertoHernandez.jpg

Felisberto Hernandez. It's ironic that Feliz translations is Happy, and all of his stories are everything but happy. Another point for this author!

Eric

04-Nov-2009, 09:57

As I mentioned somewhere, I'd never heard of Felisberto till yesterday or the day before. But Google is a wonderful tool.

There are still three Brits, a Norwegian, a Finn, and a Frenchwoman to go. The Frenchwoman is the most popular author right now, from what I can gather. But in the English-speaking world her translations hardly feature.

Igu Soni

04-Nov-2009, 10:21

I see from the Wikipedia that there are two Vikrams Chandra one at Berkeley, the other (Vikram A. Chandra) at Stanford, re?nforcing my prejudices about Anglo-Indian authors: they run off to American universities to promote Indian writing, leaving behind all those poor authors writing in indigenous languages to fend for themselves.

Some do, Eric, not all. Many of the most critically acclaimed ones live in India. Also, many of the ones who do stay abroad don't even identify them as Indian writers, like Rana Dasgupta, Kamila Shamsie, to some extent Vikram Seth (a couple of his books don't even have Indian characters).

Vikram Chandra, however, is a funny case. I suspect that the main reason he has a job in the US is because his wife is from there. He is in India around as much as in the US, and in fact knows the country better than many of the people in India.

Eric

05-Nov-2009, 14:19

I think I've left "my" photos exposed for long enough. In this last batch, once Lispector has been removed, and below a repeat of Felisberto Hern?ndez, they are:

John Wyndham, author of sci-fi novels "The Day of the Triffids", "The Kraken Wakes" and "The Midwich Cuckoos".

Anna Gavalda, very much a bestseller in France.

Edith S?dergran, Nietzschean Finland-Swedish poet.

Herbj?rg Wassmo, prolific Norwegian novelist.

Arnold Bennett, author of novels about the Staffordshire working classes in the Potteries.

Alan Bennett, erstwhile closet gay author and very prolific playwright, novelist, filmscript author, writer for televison, etc.

Eric

06-Nov-2009, 12:52

Who's this chap?

http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/assets/images/Authors/HallRadclyffe.jpg

I like the curl. And this sweetie:

http://entrefragmentos.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/marguerite-yourcenar.jpg

And this eastern princess:

http://soonlee.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/sidonie-gabrielle-colette-2.jpg

Another chap:

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b26169e201156ea987e2970c-pi

And this smart type:

http://rdujour.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/djuna_barnes.jpg

And this Siberian gal:

http://www.curvemag.com/News/ten%20authors/web_feat_authors_alismith.jpg

Whatever could they have in common?

Johan

06-Nov-2009, 13:04

The stylish "chap" in the hat is Radclyffe Hall, who wrote a famous and at the time controversial lesbian novel.

In common? Maybe they were all gay?

And I really should have spotted S?dergran.

Eric

06-Nov-2009, 13:29

Indeed, the Well at Radclyffe Hall (where is Radclyffe Hall, anyway?). They are all ladies of a tribadic persuasion, 'tis true. But who might they be specifically?

Even S?dergran was a bit on the bi side. She had a crush on some male teacher at school, but seems to have been close to Hagar Olsson. And she was more than bilingual in that she wrote, as I mentioned in the clue, a few poems in Russian and German as well her her major Modernist œuvre in the Swedish language.

The Finland-Swedes do a good line in lesbian poets. There are also Gurli Lind?n and Eva-Stina Byggm?star. The latter writes amazingly complex, sometimes childlike verses involving nature and garden gods. I am rather taken by her poetry.

miercuri

06-Nov-2009, 22:31

http://soonlee.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/sidonie-gabrielle-colette-2.jpg

Colette, right?

Eric

07-Nov-2009, 10:10

Yes, Colette. Looks as if she's trying to levitate.

So we have left, the very butch lady under Colette, the rather nice girl in the fur hat, the stylish lady in the tribly, and the rather Asian-looking woman at the bottom whose hair was no doubt cut by placing a bowl on her head and trimming.

Mirabell

07-Nov-2009, 10:45

[QUOTE=Eric;42819]

http://entrefragmentos.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/marguerite-yourcenar.jpg

marguerite yourcenar

http://rdujour.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/djuna_barnes.jpg

djuna barnes

http://www.curvemag.com/News/ten%20authors/web_feat_authors_alismith.jpg

Ali Smith

[/QUOTE

Eric

07-Nov-2009, 11:55

Yes, thank-you, Mirabell. That is them. Did anyone guess the really butch lady? There are still a couple unsolved from previous threads:

http://www.franklin.ma.us/auto/upload/schools/horace/307-ww1841.jpg

http://www.hmc.org.qa/heartviews/VOL5NO3/images/chekhov%20copy.JPG

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b26169e201156ea987e2970c-pi

Liam

07-Nov-2009, 20:38

And who are they???

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P8U6NlBMvHQ/SgWJydwiJ3I/AAAAAAAAADA/wEZsO68SMas/s1600/asbyatt.jpg

http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/img/gray_11_07.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oTslXzpqec/SMizoXDDx4I/AAAAAAAADKY/zFyFtVRYlyg/s400/YoungTolkien.jpg

http://media.newtimes.com/1930617.47.jpg

http://presenteindicativo.ilcannocchiale.it/mediamanager/sys.user/32390/Immagine%202.png

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e16Uq861MAY/SN4Skthu_JI/AAAAAAAAAJg/uSa3hRAgx_Y/s400/miccunningham.jpg

They have all of them been mentioned by me, at one point or other--

Cheers,
L

beelzebubbles

07-Nov-2009, 20:43

http://presenteindicativo.ilcannocchiale.it/mediamanager/sys.user/32390/Immagine%202.png

Well this is obviously Emma Peel.

I've got to say, Liam, that I find most of those authors very sexy except for the guy in the checked shirt.

Liam

07-Nov-2009, 20:55

Well this is obviously Emma Peel.Wrong! :p Guess again-- [I'm sure Mirabell knows who she is...]

I've got to say, Liam, that I find most of those authors very sexy except for the guy in the checked shirt.
Ah, didn't you know??? I specialize in "sexy" authors! ;)

~ L.

beelzebubbles

07-Nov-2009, 21:56

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P8U6NlBMvHQ/SgWJydwiJ3I/AAAAAAAAADA/wEZsO68SMas/s1600/asbyatt.jpg

http://presenteindicativo.ilcannocchiale.it/mediamanager/sys.user/32390/Immagine%202.png

Okay, my next guess is Susan Sontag as played by Marlo Thomas and Joan Didion performed by Charlotte Rampling.

Remember, I am worse than an anglophone; I am an American so my knowledge is limited.

Liam

07-Nov-2009, 22:18

Remember, I am worse than an anglophone; I am an American so my knowledge is limited.
Hmm, I'm afraid the standard "stupid American" trope won't help you here. I'm an American too, and look at me: elegant, well-read, cultured, multi-lingual, ok I'll stop now... :p

Perhaps I ought to have provided clues... Here goes:

1. Feminist, critic, Yorkshirewoman

2. Welshman, shortest novel he wrote is still approx. 600+ pages

3. Catholic South African, my personal hero, author of the century

4. sex-obsessed Frenchman (synonyms?), sleazebag according to some

5. journalist, hot momma, possibly the bravest woman of the past decade

6. gay novelist, wrote a book about Provincetown (made me want to move there myself)

Hope this helps,
L

beelzebubbles

07-Nov-2009, 22:21

Hmm, I'm afraid the standard "stupid American" trope won't help you here. I'm an American too, and look at me: elegant, well-read, cultured, multi-lingual, ok I'll stop now... :p

My dear, you are hardly the norm. And I didn't imply 'stupid' merely insular and monolingual which the majority of Americans are.

http://media.newtimes.com/1930617.47.jpg

Sex-obsessed Frenchman and sleazebag--The Marquis de Sade?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P8U6NlBMvHQ/SgWJydwiJ3I/AAAAAAAAADA/wEZsO68SMas/s1600/asbyatt.jpg
Feminist, critic and Yorkshirewoman--Simone de Bronte?

Okay, I'll stop now. I have to go anyhow.

Eric

08-Nov-2009, 13:09

I've just looked at Liam's #190, and not looked at any posting since, to avoid my being told the answer.

First one: don't know.
Second one: John Cowper Powys.
Third one: don't know.
Fourth one: Welbeck the misspelt Frenchman.
Fifth one: very familiar; don't know.
Sixth one: Le Cl?zio?

I'm not doing very well, this time.

SlowRain

08-Nov-2009, 13:14

I like this one because it shows his modest home and studio--an old, unheated garage of all things. First acknowledged as a great genre writer, now slowly being pushed towards the literary side of things by the critics. Mainly known for the atmosphere and times in his historical novels. (He doesn't photograph very well. This is probably one of his better ones because it's from further away.)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/14/books/furst-span.jpg

Eric

08-Nov-2009, 13:17

I've now looked at Liam's #194, so I'm trying again.

In addition to my last one, the Souss Efrican could be Roy Campbell, who was Catholic. Certainly not an true-blooded Efrukaner, otherwise I'd probably have recognised him.

The Yorkshirewoman could be the sister of Antonia Byatt, but I'm really not sure.

I saw the brave lady, who doesn't look like Diana Rigg, in the paper the other day. Maybe Iranian.

I can't guess the gay. Not Le Cl?zio, anyway.

Eric

08-Nov-2009, 13:36

Wrote and/or sang emotional-lyrical-topical-satirical songs:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Xd-upEKZYuI/Sb4jrQL9nvI/AAAAAAAAAB8/pRhE8fInvOU/s400/Bulat.jpg

http://www.ewa-demarczyk.republika.pl/Fotografie/M5-01.jpg

http://brel.magiers.de/Brel.jpg

http://www.swotti.com/tmp/swotti/cacheZWRPDGGGCGLHZG==RW50ZXJ0YWLUBWVUDC1NDXNPY0JHB MRZ/imgedith%20piaf2.jpg

http://cuervoblanco.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/brassens1.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oMHHnTtfGRk/SpEpOOXdd7I/AAAAAAAABFw/9dli7aCVadw/s400/malvina-reynolds-200-071207.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/20/Joni_070420042001559_wideweb__300x375.jpg

http://romanempress.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cohen-beads.jpg

beelzebubbles

08-Nov-2009, 14:19

At last something I might have a clue about.

Wrote and/or sang emotional-lyrical-topical-satirical songs:

http://www.swotti.com/tmp/swotti/cacheZWRPDGGGCGLHZG==RW50ZXJ0YWLUBWVUDC1NDXNPY0JHB MRZ/imgedith%20piaf2.jpg
Edith Piaf

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/20/Joni_070420042001559_wideweb__300x375.jpg
Joni Mitchell

http://romanempress.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cohen-beads.jpg
Leonard Cohen

http://www.ewa-demarczyk.republika.pl/Fotografie/M5-01.jpg
Is this Carla Bruni?

http://brel.magiers.de/Brel.jpg
Benecio Del Toro?

More topical singer/songwriters

http://themusicsover.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/ochs.jpg

http://www.triste.co.uk/hardin.jpg

http://www.fossilmuseum.net/consciousness/rp/musinimages/Joan_Baez_Bob_Dylan.jpg

miercuri

08-Nov-2009, 16:21

5. journalist, hot momma, possibly the bravest woman of the past decade

Is she Italian by any chance? She looks really familiar yet I can't put a name to the face...

Eric

08-Nov-2009, 16:51

Yes, Beelzebubbles, you're right with Edith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen. That's a start.

I'm afraid your "Carla Bruni" is Polish, and your "Benecio Del Toro" is Belgian.

I'm not sure what your criteria are for "topical". For instance Dylan is getting a bit long is the tooth as is Cohen. But I can't guess your first two.

As for the first, fifth and sixth of my recent posting, the first is Russian, the fifth French, and the sixth American. If you put paper soldiers in little boxes you should get two. But I don't know so much about the Frenchman myself.

Galatea92

08-Nov-2009, 18:17

http://brel.magiers.de/Brel.jpg

Looks like Jacques Brel.

Galatea92

08-Nov-2009, 18:28

The Yorkshirewoman could be the sister of Antonia Byatt, but I'm really not sure.

Margaret Drabble. Why not Antonia Byatt? It looks like her.

Galatea92

08-Nov-2009, 18:32

5. journalist, hot momma, possibly the bravest woman of the past decade

Given the bravest woman clue I would have gone for Anna Politkovskaya or Natalya Estemirova, but she doesn't look like either of them.

Liam

08-Nov-2009, 19:53

Why not Antonia Byatt? It looks like her.Bingo! Eric: look at my sig...

Given the bravest woman clue I would have gone for Anna Politkovskaya or Natalya Estemirova, but she doesn't look like either of them.I completely forgot about these two, :o. This one, however, was an international journalist/interviewer who went to Vietnam, Iran, Mexico and Lebanon at a time when it was anything but safe to go to those places, and wrote two polemical pamphlets, toward the end of her life, on what she perceives as the modern European collision with Islamic values. [Should be pretty obvious at this point, :p].

Eric is 100% correct about John Cowper Powys and Michel Houellebecq.

I was a bit playful (OK, dishonest) about # 3. The chap was born in South Africa, but the family had left for Britain almost immediately. Eric: type in Author of the Century in the Amazon.com search engine (for books) and it should be the first result--

I can't guess the gay. Not Le Cl?zio, anyway.Whatever possessed you to say that it WAS Le Cl?zio??? Hmm. But yeah, this bloke's first novel is called Golden States; later, one of his books won the Pulitzer Prize.

~ L.

miercuri

08-Nov-2009, 19:54

Is she Italian by any chance? She looks really familiar yet I can't put a name to the face...
Oriana Fallaci, that is the name!

Liam

08-Nov-2009, 20:05

Oriana Fallaci, that is the name!
Yes. Congratulations, Miercuri, :)--

[As I said somewhere before, I've only read one of her books in its entirety--The Rage and the Pride, which was very short. I tried reading her 800+ pp killer-whale tome Inshallah and found it to be well-nigh unreadable. Still, she was an important cultural figure, and a real looker, too--]

Cheers,
L

Eric

08-Nov-2009, 23:06

Yes, Galatea, I tossed up between the sisters, but came down on the side of Maggie Drabble. Why I chose those two is because there are not too many famous Yorkshire women authors.

You're right about Jacques Brel. It is not a very characteristic photo of him.

I wish Welbeck would learn to spell his own name. It's as daft as writing Huysmans as Ouicemance.

I said Le Cl?zio because of a vague resemblance. It could have been an odd photo.

My other guess, apart from Roy Campbell, was Laurens van der Post, Prince Charles' buddy. Though it could have been a youthful John Ronald Reuel somebody or other, which, on consideration, I now think much more likely, since he too was a bit of a Papist on the side, while skulking around Merton College with hairy feet.

I should have guessed Oriana Fallaci, but just couldn't place her.

Eric

08-Nov-2009, 23:18

What do these have in common, apart from living and working nearer to London than Edinbugh is distant from the British capital?

http://www.cronologia.it/storia/biografie/huysmans.jpg

http://kempis.nl/mag/wp-content/uploads/2009%2014%20rodenbach%20g.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/6560509.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bk32cajm9cM/SRySKAx55RI/AAAAAAAAHMI/kyC8fEQRxhY/s320/Maurice+Maeterlinck.jpg

http://cyberpoete.fr/lyres/images/poetes/VERHAEREN.jpg

saliotthomas

09-Nov-2009, 18:07

Two photos of a woman i like a lot.
Joan Didion

http://librivermis.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/joanchair.jpg?w=330&h=310

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/images/didion_pic.jpg

And for the ones who have to much trouble finding names in the quizz,just clic the right button on the image,and you might find out.

Eric

09-Nov-2009, 22:16

Nobody's guessed my latest batch. But they all lived and worked, for most of their lives nearer to London, than Edinburgh is from London. It is, of course, a trick question way of saying where they originate, but they are all respectably famous authors, especially the one in the middle.

Funhouse

09-Nov-2009, 22:57

Flower

10-Nov-2009, 01:17

Eric

10-Nov-2009, 01:35

Yes, Funhouse, without the Enigma machine you've cracked most of the code: Belgian. You were right with both Simenon and Maeterlinck.

All but the first are Belgian. His father was Dutch. Hence a Dutch-speaking connection, but I shouldn't really have included him, as he doesn't fit the criteria I set out, not being Belgian. I should have included Eeckhoud and Ghelderode instead. But even this gent lived in a city, albeit not a Belgian one, which is nearer to London than Edinburgh.

If you look at the cities where they worked for at least some of their lives, such as Ghent and a few others, these really are nearer to London, as the crow flies, than several Scottish towns and cities.

Of those left unguessed, the first one's a novelist (available in Penguin, so not desperately obscure), the second a poet and novelist (a little less well-known, but available in a recent English translation) and the last one is a poet (also translated into English).

So ultimately what they have in common is writing in French, though not being French by extraction.

Eric

10-Nov-2009, 01:45

Here are a couple more odd bods, English-speaking, this time:

http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206549489p5/22018.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/radio/cuairtean/images/neil_gunn.jpg

http://manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/2008-festival-programme/21st-october/mervyn-peake/graphic

http://www.ambaile.org.uk/images/litland/uploads/ImageNeilGunnLL.jpg

http://diaphania.blogspirit.com/media/01/01/05d2309ee9300aee1f8942d779235c84.png

miercuri

10-Nov-2009, 17:16

Yesterday I found out he died, aged almost 101.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1168/639089376_42266cd26f.jpg

Eric

10-Nov-2009, 21:50

I can see that the Belgian guess is dragging on too long. So:

http://www.cronologia.it/storia/biografie/huysmans.jpg
This is Joris-Karl Huysmans, French novelist with a Dutch dad. Wrote "A rebours".

http://kempis.nl/mag/wp-content/uploads/2009%2014%20rodenbach%20g.jpg
This is the Belgian-French author Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and author of "Bruges-la-Morte" a poetic novel recently translated by Mike Mitchell for the Dedalus publishing house (Sawtry, UK).

http://cyberpoete.fr/lyres/images/poetes/VERHAEREN.jpg
This is not an ageing chimney-sweep, but the Belgian-French poet ?mile Verhaeren, who wrote beautiful Symbolist poetry, but did not see the train coming.

Daniel del Real

10-Nov-2009, 23:12

Yesterday I found out he died, aged almost 101.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1168/639089376_42266cd26f.jpg

This one has to be Claude Levi-Strauss

Eric

11-Nov-2009, 11:41

Was he a Dalmatian?

Eric

28-Nov-2009, 23:47

Did anyone guess these two? One very famous, the other less so?

http://manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/2008-festival-programme/21st-october/mervyn-peake/graphic

http://www.ambaile.org.uk/images/litland/uploads/ImageNeilGunnLL.jpg

Mirabell

28-Nov-2009, 23:57

Neil GUnn and Mervyn Peake?

Eric

29-Nov-2009, 00:32

OK, Mirabell, you win the prize. I've not read much Peake, but he is pretty weird, even wackier than John Cowper Powys. But I've a few Gunn, and I like him for his mystic tranquility.

Sorry that I'm being so verbose; it's the wine.

Clarissa

29-Nov-2009, 08:26

John Cowper Powys weird? A writer I particularly appreciate, Eric!
Peake - I have not read. If he is as 'weird' as Cowper Powy I shall certainly put him on my list of must reads.

Eric

29-Nov-2009, 11:50

I've not read "Wolf Solent" to the end yet - my copy got lost in boxes - but I do appreciate him. It's just that his point-of-view is a little askew, somehow. But JCP's not as nutty-weird as Mervyn Peake. Mervyn Peake often moves about indoors in his narration, with slightly unbelievable figures, whilst Cowper Powys strikes me as more of an outdoor type, dealing with more of a magical realist take on reality (if that expression has not been distorted by overuse in Latin America).

Eric

29-Nov-2009, 12:03

Here's a few more photos. What have these authors got in common:

http://www.literature.lv/en/dbase/img/194.jpg

http://images.alfa.lt/5335/31/73.jpg

http://s.ohtuleht.ee/multimedia/images/000014/78889D2E-4DB0-4C23-A306-CDBE15D5895A.jpg

saliotthomas

29-Nov-2009, 12:48

They have boobs?

I have seen a few reference to bonjours tristesse de Sagan and i liked her characteres.
She always look on her photos as if she was about to laught and does take herselfe too seriously.

http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/IMG/jpg/57litt1.jpg

http://www.photos12-vintage.com/images/Azoulay_005.jpg
And she fucked up big time which is also something i liked about her.:D

Eric

29-Nov-2009, 12:54

Only Salotthomas could state the obvious. Of course I anticipated that someone, especially not recognising the people concerned, would come up with the astounding fact that Saliot supplies.

Now Saliot, what about addressing my question: apart from being youngish, women, and reasonably photogenic, what do they have in common?

None of them "fucked up big time" as Saliot so elegantly puts it regarding Sagan, but one is now dead.

saliotthomas

29-Nov-2009, 13:09

Sorry Rico but i hate Quizzes,my original idea was to post nice "artistic" and original photos of authors.
I tryied to "right click" the photos but nothing leaked.

Eric

29-Nov-2009, 18:04

If you hate quizzes, ignore my quiz. I tend to ignore things I hate, maybe you're different.

Or to translate:

ifyou htae qizzes,ignore myquizz.i tendto ignore things (shit, forgot to spell that wrong) maybee your diffrunt.

You see no one can touch an Oobermensh like a translator.

saliotthomas

30-Nov-2009, 11:24

Really like this one of Graves.

http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/influence/images/newspaper.gif

And a fellow exiled.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2008/02/26/2003487039.jpg

Liam

30-Nov-2009, 11:30

What have these authors got in common
Other than the fact that they are white, female and relatively youngish? :p Knowing you, I'll venture a suggestion that they are all... Baltic.

No idea who they are though.

ST, I really like the Graves photo!

L.

Eric

30-Nov-2009, 21:50

OK, Saliot, you've started a quiz, so I reckon that the chap in Arab garb is Lawrence of Arabia (thought it could have been Graves as young) and, I also think that just maybe the one above is Robert Graves, known as Claudius the Author among the literate. (The latter, because you've already told us, which adds excitement to the quiz.)

Pisstakes apart, Liam is, of course, sniffing at the foot of the right tree, up which three frightened damsels are clustered. These ladies are indeed Baltic. I got fed-up of all those greats, like Joan Diddymen at a demo when she was still young and revelationary, Saul Bellow in drag, and Tolkien in a bath in South Africa along with an short Afrikaner dressed as a Hobbit, so I thought I'd play the "obscure" card, as everything Baltic is bloody obscure.

As no one knows any lady novelists from the Baltix, I might as well tell you. But I'm not going to, yet, so there. But I'll give you a clue: sex. That should shake you out of your Baltophobic doldrums.

Liam

30-Nov-2009, 22:15

...everything Baltic is bloody obscure.I thought Arvo P?rt was hot shit, these days. In any event, he's my favorite composer, and that's saying a lot! ;)

As no one knows any lady novelists from the BaltixI do know a couple of lady poets, however. Too bad you didn't post a picture of Marie Under.

I'll give you a clue: sex. That should shake you out of your Baltophobic doldrums.Who said anything about Baltophobia? Baltic guys are way hot! :p Were the three aforementioned ladies in the adult film industry, at some point in their lives?

L.

Mirabell

30-Nov-2009, 22:28

Uwe Johnson

young

http://www.buecher-wiki.de/uploads/BuecherWiki/johnson_uwe1961csv.jpg

http://www.fr-online.de/_em_daten/_online/2008/01/24/080124_1320_02_2328104.jpg

and, near the end:

http://www.karin-gaa.de/assets/images/autogen/a_uwe_johnson.jpg

http://www.sheernessheritagecentre.com/UWE%20JOHNSON-medium.jpg

ferns_dad

01-Dec-2009, 00:34

Liam

01-Dec-2009, 01:09

huge noses? bad skin?
I'd like to see the paragon of beauty that is ferns_dad, :p:p:p--

L.

beelzebubbles

01-Dec-2009, 01:23

Here is photo of Graves with White Goddess/actress Ava Gardner.

http://www.mallorcaonline.com/story/images/graves03.jpg

Eric

01-Dec-2009, 15:51

Well Liam, I've never heard of Arvo P?rv?rt. Must be one of those writers of pulp fiction. Marie Under is indeed under-rated (geddit?) as she was rather a dynamic poet in the 1920s, but managed to survive to the age of about 98, thanks to the Swedes. The Russians would have sent her to a labour camp for being bourgeois. Her husband, Artur Adson, was about as bald as Uwe Johnson is here. The latter looks a real bundle of laughs.

To answer Ferns Dad, the huge noses can be a sign of Jewish provenance. See Chapter 23 of the Yiddish primer written by Uriel Weinreich called "College Yiddish", where he discusses, in Yiddish to keep the monolingual plebs away, the variation in Jewish noses. Not all of them are "hoykerdike". If you want to see a really big "hoykerdike" schnozzle, look at Heydrich, that lover of Jews:

http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/image/Wannsee/Heydrich.jpg

Lovely uniform, though.

Eric

09-Dec-2009, 01:52

This photo was in the S?ddeutsche Zeitung yesterday, with a little added colour. God also wrote books, you know:

http://click.si.edu/images/upload/Images/pn_432_Image_83_77.jpg

learna

11-Dec-2009, 13:15

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy:

http://s57.radikal.ru/i155/0912/32/791856d45016.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)

Igu Soni

11-Dec-2009, 14:54

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy:

http://s57.radikal.ru/i155/0912/32/791856d45016.jpg (http://www.radikal.ru)
NIce. Who's the painter?

learna

11-Dec-2009, 18:17

NIce. Who's the painter?[/QUOTE]

Ilya Repin. Portrait of Leo Tolstoy as a Ploughman on a Feild. 1887. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

ferns_dad

11-Dec-2009, 18:22

NIce. Who's the painter?

Ilya Repin. Portrait of Leo Tolstoy as a Ploughman on a Feild. 1887. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.[/QUOTE]

I don't see the cat in the picture, must be under foot, like mine?

ferns_dad

11-Dec-2009, 18:23

Ilya Repin. Portrait of Leo Tolstoy as a Ploughman on a Felid. 1887. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

I don't see the cat in the picture, must be under foot, like mine?[/QUOTE]

Igu Soni

11-Dec-2009, 20:05

This thread just beat the record for amount of wierd taggin in four</i> consecutive [/a] posts.
[/QUOTE]

learna

11-Dec-2009, 21:20

I don't see the cat in the picture, must be under foot, like mine?[/QUOTE]

Do you mean that misprint has created a cat ? :)

Eric

13-Dec-2009, 10:38

Quiz again. What have these authors got in common?

http://www.brusselnieuws.be/artikels/cultuur/annelies-verbeke-de-belgen-zijn-beter/images/imageinnercontentproxy.2008-04-29.1357187393/pa_thumb/imagex294x195.jpeg

http://users.telenet.be/gaston.d.haese/woestijne.jpg

http://www.archiefsolidair.org/images/solidair2006/39/7560vandenbroeck_walter3_(320_x_240).jpg

http://s1.hbvl.be/imgpath/assets_img_gvl/2009/06/23/482482/vals-opiniestuk-kan-saskia-de-coster-celstraf-opleveren_5_460x0.jpg

http://www.standaard.be/Assets/Images_Upload/NBN_A6_CHRISTINE_BLG.MM.jpg

http://users.telenet.be/daens/louis_paul_boon.jpg

http://www.klara.be/polopoly_fs/1.2758!image/2182616557.jpg_gen/derivatives/cdLargeThumb/2182616557.jpg

http://nieuwsblad.typepad.com/genk/images/2008/04/27/rachida_lamrabet_michiel_hendryckx.jpg

http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/portret/osta002_p02.gif

http://www.aboriginemundi.com/timmermans/images/felix-timmermans.jpg

As I said above, they all have something in common.

saliotthomas

13-Dec-2009, 17:16

Amelie Nothomb

"hey guys has anyone seen my chamber pot?"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Am%C3%A9lie_Nothomb_14_mars_2009.jpg

Liam

13-Dec-2009, 20:11

"hey guys has anyone seen my chamber pot?"
...said the Cat in the Hat...

Thanx for this, Thomas. I laughed like the drain, nonstop, for 5 minutes.

L.

Eric

13-Dec-2009, 23:29

Yes, her hat is a trifle overdone. But once you've made it, you can afford to make a fool of yourself, and still live in the lap of luxury.

Anyone care to hazard a guess at the ten photos I posted? All successful authors.

Mirabell

13-Dec-2009, 23:59

I especialyl love the contrast between her appearance and that pretty author's photo on the cover of the book in front of her.

Eric

14-Dec-2009, 00:48

Mirabell, you make a point about Nothomb's appearance. Most authors tend to allow their publishers to use photos that are sometimes decades old, to hide the fact that even authors age, wrinkle, and eventually die. But this bad habit by publishers is exacerbated by a literary climate that worships photogenic authors, especially women, who are not allowed to age, because the neurotically avaricious publishers fear that sales will shrink.

But even with men, all these smooth-suave, beardy or beardless young types, will become older one day. That's the nature of things. So next time you look in the mirror, don't laugh at Nothomb. You might end up looking like her.

Here's an example of an author growing older, a female one this time:

http://www.achievement.org/achievers/oat0/large/oat0-008.jpg

http://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/joycecaroloates.jpg

http://www.meredithsuewillis.com/images/joycecaroloates.jpg

http://www.authorsontourlive.com/wp-images/Oates.jpg

And male:

http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~tan/Britten/auden.gif

http://www.conelrad.com/daisy/images/auden.gif

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/auden.jpg

Age does add experience and character, but many older people rather wish they'd remained stuck, appearance-wise, at the age of 35.

Liam

14-Dec-2009, 05:13

Age does add experience and character, but many older people rather wish they'd remained stuck, appearance-wise, at the age of 35.At the ripe old age of 25, I wish I'd remained stuck, appearance-wise, at sweet 16! :(

Eric, in regards to your photos, I'm going to hazard a guess and say that they're all Belgian. Which would make Nothomb a nice little addition in the end, courtesy of saliotthomas.

L.

Eric

14-Dec-2009, 13:03

If you stick too long with a teenage appearance, you will age in jerks rather than mellow. Look at the angular sexagenarian Cliff Richard who has tried to remain Peter Pan for forty years:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov03/images/classictracks6richard.l.jpg

Bachelor boy. And now the real thing:

http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/lb/cliff_richard_061208/cliff_richard_2205483.jpg

learna

14-Dec-2009, 13:11

Quiz again. What have these authors got in common?

http://www.brusselnieuws.be/artikels/cultuur/annelies-verbeke-de-belgen-zijn-beter/images/imageinnercontentproxy.2008-04-29.1357187393/pa_thumb/imagex294x195.jpeg

http://users.telenet.be/gaston.d.haese/woestijne.jpg

http://www.archiefsolidair.org/images/solidair2006/39/7560vandenbroeck_walter3_%28320_x_240%29.jpg

http://s1.hbvl.be/imgpath/assets_img_gvl/2009/06/23/482482/vals-opiniestuk-kan-saskia-de-coster-celstraf-opleveren_5_460x0.jpg

http://www.standaard.be/Assets/Images_Upload/NBN_A6_CHRISTINE_BLG.MM.jpg

http://users.telenet.be/daens/louis_paul_boon.jpg

http://www.klara.be/polopoly_fs/1.2758%21image/2182616557.jpg_gen/derivatives/cdLargeThumb/2182616557.jpg

http://nieuwsblad.typepad.com/genk/images/2008/04/27/rachida_lamrabet_michiel_hendryckx.jpg

http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/portret/osta002_p02.gif

http://www.aboriginemundi.com/timmermans/images/felix-timmermans.jpg

As I said above, they all have something in common.

From the first view ... Annelies Verbeke, Karel van de Woestijne, Louis Paul Boon, and Rachida Lamrabet are Vlaams.