Authors photos

[learna]

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]

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

Well, he's a novelist too...

[Galatea92]

Originally Posted by Eric

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:

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]

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]

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




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]

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

[Galatea92]

Originally Posted by Jayaprakash

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

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]

Originally Posted by Galatea92

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.

Hemingway and the 12ga? Priceless

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

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.

[Igu Soni]

Originally Posted by ferns_dad

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.

There used to be a really ugly pic of him in wikipedia, but it's been taken down.
I found it using google:



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.

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

Coen Brothers, also

[Daniel del Real]

Kadaré and Camus

[Galatea92]

And there's also a rather erotic photograph of her here

[Daniel del Real]

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

[miercuri]

Originally Posted by Galatea92

And there's also a rather erotic photograph of her here

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!

[beelzebubbles]

Originally Posted by learna

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

What is that strange looking instrument he is playing?

[Eric]

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

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.

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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:



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]

Originally Posted by beelzebubbles

What is that strange looking instrument he is playing?

It looks like unusual guitar.

[beelzebubbles]

Originally Posted by learna

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.