Authors photos

[Igu Soni]

The Russian dude is Tolstoy, right?

[learna]

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]

The fourth is Mark Twain.

[Igu Soni]

Originally Posted by learna

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]

Originally Posted by Jayaprakash

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.

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

[Galatea92]

Originally Posted by Eric

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.

JB Priestly is the chubby Yorkshireman.
The Russian author is Tolstoy.
The unemployed opera singer looks like Andrew Motion.
The other two escape me at the moment.

[Galatea92]

Originally Posted by Eric

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.

The Scot who isn't a Scot looks like Strindberg.

[Galatea92]

Originally Posted by Eric

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.

The boy-with-scissors chap is Andre Gide. (Why boy-with-scissors, Eric?)

[Galatea92]

Originally Posted by Eric

This chap is a lady...

...called Wislawa Szymborska.

[Galatea92]

Originally Posted by Eric

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.

Oh, and the guy who wrote tragic novels was Thomas Hardy, of course.

[Galatea92]

Originally Posted by Eric

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]

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





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



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

[Igu Soni]

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

[Jayaprakash]

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]

George Orwell.

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

[Jayaprakash]

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

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

[Igu Soni]

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):

(According to me, the most exciting Indian English writer)


(Great poet, though better known for his prose)


(Brilliant poet.)

[Jayaprakash]

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

[Igu Soni]

Originally Posted by Jayaprakash

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

. Forgot where you were from.

Here's a couple more(still good writers):



(haven't actually read this guy, but has been recommended)


Lightweight, but good.(This one should be easier)

[Eric]

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, Günter 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: