Authors photos

[saliotthomas]

Originally Posted by learna

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
I guess Boris could have secretly belonged to a revival branche...

[beelzebubbles]

Originally Posted by saliotthomas

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
I guess Boris could have secretly belonged to a revival branche...

See now that is what I am talking about. Almost believable and he supplies a reference. Nice work, Thomas!

[learna]

Originally Posted by saliotthomas

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
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]

John Fante




Mafhouz



Chekhov



Yves Navarre

[peter_d]

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]

[Eric]

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:



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


The postman


Marian


A poet


King Alfred


Another poet


A short-story writer, when young.


A lonely novelist


Married a commoner

[Igu Soni]

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

[Eric]

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]

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]

two poets




one novelist




one nonfiction writer




one short story writer and novelist:

[beelzebubbles]

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]

Originally Posted by Eric

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.

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

[Jayaprakash]

He wrote a couple of humorous novels:



He wrote about cities in flight:



He writes about many things, including whisky:



Drinking buddy of the above:



This is what I call a non-fiction author:



He used to hang out with Hawkwind:



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



He writes about fairies and things like that:

[Eric]

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 Günter Grass-style moustache is also familiar, but I can't put a name to him.

[Eric]

What have these got in common?

[Funhouse]

Originally Posted by Eric

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]

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 Günter Grass-style moustache" is Stephen J Gould. The guy who "used to hang out with Hawkwind" is Michael Moorcock.

[Eric]

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]

Originally Posted by Eric

What have these got in common?

Well, I recognised Stieg Larsson, Kerstin Ekman and Henning Mankell, so I suppose the other two must be Swedes as well. I thought the third one was Will Self until the penny dropped.

Harry