Dame Barbara Cartland (7/1/1901 - 5/21/2000) completed a novel every two weeks, publishing more than 723 novels, which sold more than 1 billion copies in 36 languages, making her the best-selling novelist of all time.
The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
English novelist and dramatist Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
Senin, 15 September 2008
Minggu, 14 September 2008
Orhan Pamuk’s Speech
Orhan Pamuk’s Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2006
Why do you write? This is the question I’ve been asked most often in my writing career. Most of the time they mean this: What is the point, why do you give your time to this strange and impossible activity? Why do you write... You have to give an excuse, an apology for writing... This is how I have felt every time I’ve heard this question. But every time I give a different answer... Sometimes I say: I do not know why I write, but it definitely makes me feel good. I hope you feel the same when you read me! Sometimes I say that I am angry, and that is why I write. Most of the time the urge is to be alone in a room, so that is why I write. In my childhood I wanted to be a painter. I painted every day. I still have that childish feeling of joy and happiness whenever I write. I write to pursue that old childish happiness and that is why for me literature and writing are inextricably linked with happiness, or the lack of it... unhappiness. In my childhood, I felt happy, painted a lot, and all the grown ups were constantly smiling at me. Everybody was gentle, polite and tender. I wrote all about this in my autobiographical book, Istanbul. After the publication of Istanbul, some people asked me this question: Aren’t you a bit young to write your autobiography? I kept my silence. Literature is about happiness, I wanted to say, about preserving your childishness all your life, keeping the child in you alive... Now, some years later, I’ve received this great prize. This time the same people begin asking another question: Aren’t you a bit young to get the Nobel Prize? Actually the question I’ve heard most often since the news of this prize reached me is: How does it feel to get the Nobel Prize? I say, oh! It feels good. All the grown ups are constantly smiling at me. Suddenly everybody is again gentle, polite and tender. In fact, I almost feel like a prince. I feel like a child. Then for a moment, I realize why sometimes I have felt so angry. This prize, which brought back to me the tender smiles of my childhood and the kindness of the strangers, should have been given to me not at this age (54) which some think is too young, but much much earlier, even earlier than my childhood, perhaps two weeks after I was born, so that I could have enjoyed the princely feeling of being a child all my life. In fact now... come to think of it... That is why I write and why I will continue to write. (The Nobel Foundation 2006)
Why do you write? This is the question I’ve been asked most often in my writing career. Most of the time they mean this: What is the point, why do you give your time to this strange and impossible activity? Why do you write... You have to give an excuse, an apology for writing... This is how I have felt every time I’ve heard this question. But every time I give a different answer... Sometimes I say: I do not know why I write, but it definitely makes me feel good. I hope you feel the same when you read me! Sometimes I say that I am angry, and that is why I write. Most of the time the urge is to be alone in a room, so that is why I write. In my childhood I wanted to be a painter. I painted every day. I still have that childish feeling of joy and happiness whenever I write. I write to pursue that old childish happiness and that is why for me literature and writing are inextricably linked with happiness, or the lack of it... unhappiness. In my childhood, I felt happy, painted a lot, and all the grown ups were constantly smiling at me. Everybody was gentle, polite and tender. I wrote all about this in my autobiographical book, Istanbul. After the publication of Istanbul, some people asked me this question: Aren’t you a bit young to write your autobiography? I kept my silence. Literature is about happiness, I wanted to say, about preserving your childishness all your life, keeping the child in you alive... Now, some years later, I’ve received this great prize. This time the same people begin asking another question: Aren’t you a bit young to get the Nobel Prize? Actually the question I’ve heard most often since the news of this prize reached me is: How does it feel to get the Nobel Prize? I say, oh! It feels good. All the grown ups are constantly smiling at me. Suddenly everybody is again gentle, polite and tender. In fact, I almost feel like a prince. I feel like a child. Then for a moment, I realize why sometimes I have felt so angry. This prize, which brought back to me the tender smiles of my childhood and the kindness of the strangers, should have been given to me not at this age (54) which some think is too young, but much much earlier, even earlier than my childhood, perhaps two weeks after I was born, so that I could have enjoyed the princely feeling of being a child all my life. In fact now... come to think of it... That is why I write and why I will continue to write. (The Nobel Foundation 2006)
Sabtu, 13 September 2008
Gothic Literature
The origins of Gothic literature can be traced to various historical, cultural, and artistic precedents. Figures found in ancient folklore, such as the Demon Lover, the Cannibal Bridegroom, the Devil, and assorted demons, later populated the pages of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Gothic novels and dramas. In addition, many seventeenth-and eighteenth-century works are believed to have served as precursors to the development of the Gothic tradition in Romantic literature. These works include plays by William Shakespeare, such as Hamlet (c. 1600–01) and Macbeth (1606), which feature supernatural elements, demons, and apparitions, and Daniel Defoe’s An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions (1727), which was written to support religion and discourage superstition by providing evidence of the existence of good spirits, angels, and other divine manifestations, and by ridiculing delusions and naive credulity. However, while these elements were present in literature and folklore prior to the mid-eighteenth century, when the Gothic movement began, it was the political, social, and theological landscape of eighteenth-century Europe that served as an impetus for this movement. Edmund Burke’s treatise A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) introduced the concept of increasing appreciation for the nature of experiences characterized by the “sublime” and “beautiful” by depicting and then engaging (vicariously) in experiences comprised of elements that are contrary in nature, such as terror, death, and evil. Writers composed Gothic narratives during this period largely in response to anxiety over the change in social and political structure brought about by such events as the French Revolution, the rise in secular-based government, and the rapidly changing nature of the everyday world brought about by scientific advances and industrial development, in addition to an increasing aesthetic demand for realism rather than folklore and fantasy. The Gothic worlds depicted fears about what might happen, what could go wrong, and what could be lost by continuing along the path of political, social, and theological change, as well as reflecting the desire to return to the time of fantasy and belief in supernatural intervention that characterized the Middle Ages. In some cases Gothic narratives were also used to depict horrors that existed in the old social and political order—the evils of an unequal, intolerant society. In Gothic narratives writers were able to both express the anxiety generated by this upheaval and, as Burke suggested, increase society's appreciation and desire for change and progress.
It is Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto (1764) that is generally acclaimed as the original work of Gothic literature—despite the fact that some of the Gothic trappings found in Walpole’s work were present in works such as Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753)—because in his narrative Walpole brings together elements of the supernatural and horrific, and models his ruined castle setting after his real-life residence, Strawberry Hill, a modern version of a medieval castle. The characters in the novel try to succeed in the modern world and to adhere to the optimism and forward-looking agenda they have been asked to advance, but a dark, ancient evil from the distant past dooms them to failure. While the literary merits of Walpole’s novel were challenged by many critics, the work inspired the reading public and authors alike, and works imitative of Otranto, written in what became known as the Gothic style, became extremely popular. Brother and sister John Aikin and Anna Laetitia (Aikin) Barbauld, in their Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose (1773), represent the intellectual and psychological mechanics of Gothic literature, and offer “Sir Bertrand, A Fragment”, a story written in Gothic style, to illustrate their assertions. Ann Radcliffe, like Walpole, is considered one of the founders of the Gothic genre. Radcliffe began her career as a Gothic writer with the publication of her well-received novel The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne in 1789, and quickly followed up with the novels A Sicilian Romance and The Romance of the Forest published in 1790 and 1791, respectively. Radcliffe’s 1794 novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, is regarded by many as the quintessential example of eighteenth-century fiction at its finest, and it is for this work that she is best known. Mrs. Eliza Parsons’s Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) is an example of the melodramatic popular “shilling shocker” or “penny dreadful” type of Gothic fiction, a debased imitation of Radcliffe’s style, characterized by gross excess and lack of literary skill, that was parodied by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey (1818). Parsons was one of many novelists, including Edward Bulwer-Lytton—held as an author of a more “elevated” or skilled example of the popular Gothic melodrama—who produced works of this kind. Other works considered classic examples of the Gothic novel are Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk (1796) and Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), both of which epitomize the stock Gothic character of the outsider or social outcast, who must face the consequences of committing mortal sin.
The great Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also contributed to the Gothic tradition in literature and, according to critic Fred Botting, produced “major innovations, or renovations of the genre” that “drew it closer to aspects of Romanticism.” The Romantic writers, asserts Botting as well as other commentators, while utilizing the settings and devices developed by Walpole, Radcliffe, and others, focused and expanded upon the psychological, internal qualities of the protagonists, and dealt with such themes as the search for identity, desire versus duty, social alienation, and the search for truth. William Godwin and his daughter, Mary Shelley, are the Romantic writers most closely associated with the Gothic tradition. Godwin’s Things as They Are or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) utilizes the Gothic tradition to indict political repression and protest the tyrannical rule of the day, while Shelley’s Gothic in Frankenstein (1818) urges personal integrity and social responsibility in an age of scientific progress and represents the anxiety produced by the disruption of the traditional, known natural world order.
While English writers are credited with founding the Gothic novel, Scottish writers such as James Hogg contributed heavily to the genre, and many English-language works were influenced by German literary traditions, particularly the works of such writers as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and E.T.A. Hoffmann. Sir Walter Scott’s works reflect a German sensibility and works such as his Waverly (1814)—as well as the works of others, including Walpole, Radcliffe, Shelley, Maturin, and Lewis—in turn inspired Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and James Fenimore Cooper, some of the most notable authors who developed what became the American Gothic tradition in literature. In addition, the English Gothic tradition influenced French authors, including Gaston Leroux, and Russian authors, including Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. Since its inception, the Gothic genre in literature has undergone numerous changes and adaptations, but its essential role as a means of depicting humanity’s deepest, darkest fears, and otherwise unspeakable evils—both real and imagined—has endured. (Quoted from www.enotes.com)
It is Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto (1764) that is generally acclaimed as the original work of Gothic literature—despite the fact that some of the Gothic trappings found in Walpole’s work were present in works such as Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753)—because in his narrative Walpole brings together elements of the supernatural and horrific, and models his ruined castle setting after his real-life residence, Strawberry Hill, a modern version of a medieval castle. The characters in the novel try to succeed in the modern world and to adhere to the optimism and forward-looking agenda they have been asked to advance, but a dark, ancient evil from the distant past dooms them to failure. While the literary merits of Walpole’s novel were challenged by many critics, the work inspired the reading public and authors alike, and works imitative of Otranto, written in what became known as the Gothic style, became extremely popular. Brother and sister John Aikin and Anna Laetitia (Aikin) Barbauld, in their Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose (1773), represent the intellectual and psychological mechanics of Gothic literature, and offer “Sir Bertrand, A Fragment”, a story written in Gothic style, to illustrate their assertions. Ann Radcliffe, like Walpole, is considered one of the founders of the Gothic genre. Radcliffe began her career as a Gothic writer with the publication of her well-received novel The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne in 1789, and quickly followed up with the novels A Sicilian Romance and The Romance of the Forest published in 1790 and 1791, respectively. Radcliffe’s 1794 novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, is regarded by many as the quintessential example of eighteenth-century fiction at its finest, and it is for this work that she is best known. Mrs. Eliza Parsons’s Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) is an example of the melodramatic popular “shilling shocker” or “penny dreadful” type of Gothic fiction, a debased imitation of Radcliffe’s style, characterized by gross excess and lack of literary skill, that was parodied by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey (1818). Parsons was one of many novelists, including Edward Bulwer-Lytton—held as an author of a more “elevated” or skilled example of the popular Gothic melodrama—who produced works of this kind. Other works considered classic examples of the Gothic novel are Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk (1796) and Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), both of which epitomize the stock Gothic character of the outsider or social outcast, who must face the consequences of committing mortal sin.
The great Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also contributed to the Gothic tradition in literature and, according to critic Fred Botting, produced “major innovations, or renovations of the genre” that “drew it closer to aspects of Romanticism.” The Romantic writers, asserts Botting as well as other commentators, while utilizing the settings and devices developed by Walpole, Radcliffe, and others, focused and expanded upon the psychological, internal qualities of the protagonists, and dealt with such themes as the search for identity, desire versus duty, social alienation, and the search for truth. William Godwin and his daughter, Mary Shelley, are the Romantic writers most closely associated with the Gothic tradition. Godwin’s Things as They Are or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) utilizes the Gothic tradition to indict political repression and protest the tyrannical rule of the day, while Shelley’s Gothic in Frankenstein (1818) urges personal integrity and social responsibility in an age of scientific progress and represents the anxiety produced by the disruption of the traditional, known natural world order.
While English writers are credited with founding the Gothic novel, Scottish writers such as James Hogg contributed heavily to the genre, and many English-language works were influenced by German literary traditions, particularly the works of such writers as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and E.T.A. Hoffmann. Sir Walter Scott’s works reflect a German sensibility and works such as his Waverly (1814)—as well as the works of others, including Walpole, Radcliffe, Shelley, Maturin, and Lewis—in turn inspired Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and James Fenimore Cooper, some of the most notable authors who developed what became the American Gothic tradition in literature. In addition, the English Gothic tradition influenced French authors, including Gaston Leroux, and Russian authors, including Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. Since its inception, the Gothic genre in literature has undergone numerous changes and adaptations, but its essential role as a means of depicting humanity’s deepest, darkest fears, and otherwise unspeakable evils—both real and imagined—has endured. (Quoted from www.enotes.com)
Jumat, 12 September 2008
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of the English writer and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Carroll was born in Cheshire, England, on Jan. 27, 1832. As a young boy, puzzles, logic, and mathematics fascinated him and this interest continued throughout his life. His pen name, in fact, is an anglicized form of the Latin translation of his first and middle names, “Carolus Lodovicus.”
In 1855, while working toward becoming a priest, Carroll met Henry Liddell and his family, which included Alice Liddell, the young girl who provided the inspiration for both Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. By 1861, Lewis Carroll had already published a few volumes on mathematics and some short poetry. However, his most famous works were still ahead of him. He conceived of the Alice stories during a few boat rides with the Liddell children, when he would actually tell the stories aloud, making them up on the journey.
In 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was printed and it immediately became quite popular, providing Carroll with a substantial income. Six years later, he published Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
Over the next thirty years, Lewis Carroll wrote numerous other books, including The Hunting of the Snark and Sylvie and Bruno, in addition to some discourses on mathematics and logic, but none ever quite matched the appeal and popularity that his stories of Alice did.
Carroll died on Jan. 14, 1898, from complications of either bronchitis or pneumonia. (Quoted from www.enotes.com)
In 1855, while working toward becoming a priest, Carroll met Henry Liddell and his family, which included Alice Liddell, the young girl who provided the inspiration for both Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. By 1861, Lewis Carroll had already published a few volumes on mathematics and some short poetry. However, his most famous works were still ahead of him. He conceived of the Alice stories during a few boat rides with the Liddell children, when he would actually tell the stories aloud, making them up on the journey.
In 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was printed and it immediately became quite popular, providing Carroll with a substantial income. Six years later, he published Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
Over the next thirty years, Lewis Carroll wrote numerous other books, including The Hunting of the Snark and Sylvie and Bruno, in addition to some discourses on mathematics and logic, but none ever quite matched the appeal and popularity that his stories of Alice did.
Carroll died on Jan. 14, 1898, from complications of either bronchitis or pneumonia. (Quoted from www.enotes.com)
Kamis, 11 September 2008
The First Novel in the World
In the year 1007, a Japanese noble woman, Murasaki Shikibu, wrote the world’s first full novel. Called The tale of Genji, it tells the story of a prince looking for love and wisdom. In its English translation it covers 54 chapters over 1,000 pages of text.
By the Middle Ages there were many novels about kings and heroic knights but in the late 1500s the anti-romance movement took roots and villains became the main characters. The first such novel was Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, written in 1554 by an unknown author. It is the story of a poor boy who makes his way in the world by tricking his employers.
The antinovel was invented by the French. Antinovel writers insist that traditional novels sketch a false appearance of the world in much the the same way as television soap operas do - or as Murasaki Shikibu did. Instead of creating fantasy plots and characters, antinovelists emphasize the minute details of life and the world.
The author who wrote the most novels ever also is a women. Dame Barbara Cartland (7/1/1901 - 5/21/2000) completed a novel every two weeks, publishing more than 723 novels, which sold more than 1 billion copies in 36 languages, making her the best-selling novelist of all time.
By the Middle Ages there were many novels about kings and heroic knights but in the late 1500s the anti-romance movement took roots and villains became the main characters. The first such novel was Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, written in 1554 by an unknown author. It is the story of a poor boy who makes his way in the world by tricking his employers.
The antinovel was invented by the French. Antinovel writers insist that traditional novels sketch a false appearance of the world in much the the same way as television soap operas do - or as Murasaki Shikibu did. Instead of creating fantasy plots and characters, antinovelists emphasize the minute details of life and the world.
The author who wrote the most novels ever also is a women. Dame Barbara Cartland (7/1/1901 - 5/21/2000) completed a novel every two weeks, publishing more than 723 novels, which sold more than 1 billion copies in 36 languages, making her the best-selling novelist of all time.
Rabu, 10 September 2008
The Real Name
Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu)
Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky)
Acton Bell (Anne Bront)
Adinegoro (Djamaluddin)
Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier)
Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle)
Ann Landers (Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer)
Alcofribas Nasier (Franois Rabelais)
Alexander Barks (Charlie Christensen)
Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Franois Thibault)
Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
Arkon Daraul (likely Idries Shah)
Ashida Kim (Radford William Davis)
Seiko Legru (Janwillem van de Wetering)
Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
Blaise Cendrars (Frdric Louis Sauser)
Bob Hart (Al Trace|Albert J. Trace)
Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili)
Boz (Charles Dickens)
Branislav Nusic' (Ben Akiba)
Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
Cherubina de Gabriak (Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva)
Christopher Hunter (Radford William Davis)
Clem Watts ([Albert J. Trace)
Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
Currer Bell (Charlotte Bront)
Curzio Malaparte (Kurt Erich Suckert)
Daniel Defoe (Daniel Foe)
Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev)
Danuta de Rhodes (Dan Rhodes)
David Axton (Dean Koontz)
David Michaels (Raymond Benson)
Dazai Osamu (Shuji Tsushima)
Dear Abby (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
Douglas Spaulding ([Ray Bradbury])
Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
Edith Van Dyne (L. Frank Baum)
Edogawa Rampo (Hirai Taro-)
Edward Pygge (Ian Hamilton, Clive James, Russell Davies)
Edwin Caskoden (Charles Major)
El Hakim (Abu Hanifah)
Elia (Charles Lamb)
Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
Ellis Bell (Emily Bront)
Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
Elsa Triolet (Elsa Kagan)
Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark)
Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan)
Francis Bennett (Edwin Keppel Bennett)
Franoise Sagan (Franoise Quoirez)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
George Sand (Amandine Dupin)
Georges Courteline (Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux
Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Lippincott)
Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky)
H.N. Turtletaub (Harry Turtledove)
Hard Pan (Geraldine Bonner)
Harold Robbins (Harold Rubin)
Havank (Hans van der Kallen)
Herg (Georges Remi)
Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus)
Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg)
Irwin Shaw (Irwin Shamforoff)
Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)
J.K. Rowling (Joanne Rowling)
James Dillinger (James Robert Baker)
James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
Jay Livingston (Jacob Harold Levison)
Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert)
Johann Joachim Sautscheck (Roman Turovsky-Savchuk)
John Beynon (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
John Christopher (Samuel Youd)
John le Carre (David John Moore Cornwell)
John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
Joseph Conrad (Jzef Teodor Na?e;cz Konrad Korzeniowski)
Korney Chukovsky (Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov)
Keno (Eric Killinger)
Kinoysan (Ari Wulandari)
Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Lorenzo da Ponte (Emmanuele Conegliano)
Louis-Ferdinand Cline (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)
Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky)
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian)
Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart)
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
Nancy Boyd (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Natsume Soseki (Natsume Kinnosuke)
Nisa (Nicola Salerno)
Novalis (Friedrich Leopold)
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Ogdred Weary (Edward Gorey)
Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
Pandir Kelana (R.M. Slamet Danusudirdjo)
Paul Annixter (Howard Allison Sturtzel)
Paul Celan (Paul Antschel)
Pedje (Purwadi Djunaedi)
Jean Ray (Jean Raymond Marie de Kremer)
Pauline Rage (Anne Desclos)
Peter Gast (Heinrich Kselitz)
Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud)
Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)
Phillip Guston (Phillip Goldstein)
Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers)
Q (Arthur Quiller-Couch)
Remy Silado (Yappie Tambayong)
Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
Richard Leander (Richard von Volkmann)
Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis)
Romain Gary (Romain Kacew)
Rosemary Edghill (eluki bes shahar)
Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Lger Lger)
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
Sapper (H.C. McNeile)
Selasih (Sariamin Ismail)
Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin)
Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble)
Stash Cairo (Craig Hamilton)
Stefan Brockhoff (Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin)
Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)
Student (William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics)
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
Sutan Iwan Soekri Munaf (Sutan Roedy Irawan Syafrullah)
The Fredman (Karl Mikael Bellman)
Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabourot)
Titi Nginung (Arswendo Atmowiloto)
TM Maple (Jim Burke)
Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford)
Vercors (Jean Bruller)
Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian)
Umberto Saba (Umberto Poli)
Voltaire (Franois-Marie Arouet)
Walter (Henry Spencer Ashbee)
Willibald Alexis (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)
Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
Yevegny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev)
Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka)
Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky)
Acton Bell (Anne Bront)
Adinegoro (Djamaluddin)
Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier)
Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle)
Ann Landers (Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer)
Alcofribas Nasier (Franois Rabelais)
Alexander Barks (Charlie Christensen)
Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Franois Thibault)
Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
Arkon Daraul (likely Idries Shah)
Ashida Kim (Radford William Davis)
Seiko Legru (Janwillem van de Wetering)
Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
Blaise Cendrars (Frdric Louis Sauser)
Bob Hart (Al Trace|Albert J. Trace)
Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili)
Boz (Charles Dickens)
Branislav Nusic' (Ben Akiba)
Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
Cherubina de Gabriak (Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva)
Christopher Hunter (Radford William Davis)
Clem Watts ([Albert J. Trace)
Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
Currer Bell (Charlotte Bront)
Curzio Malaparte (Kurt Erich Suckert)
Daniel Defoe (Daniel Foe)
Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev)
Danuta de Rhodes (Dan Rhodes)
David Axton (Dean Koontz)
David Michaels (Raymond Benson)
Dazai Osamu (Shuji Tsushima)
Dear Abby (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
Douglas Spaulding ([Ray Bradbury])
Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
Edith Van Dyne (L. Frank Baum)
Edogawa Rampo (Hirai Taro-)
Edward Pygge (Ian Hamilton, Clive James, Russell Davies)
Edwin Caskoden (Charles Major)
El Hakim (Abu Hanifah)
Elia (Charles Lamb)
Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
Ellis Bell (Emily Bront)
Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
Elsa Triolet (Elsa Kagan)
Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark)
Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan)
Francis Bennett (Edwin Keppel Bennett)
Franoise Sagan (Franoise Quoirez)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
George Sand (Amandine Dupin)
Georges Courteline (Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux
Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Lippincott)
Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky)
H.N. Turtletaub (Harry Turtledove)
Hard Pan (Geraldine Bonner)
Harold Robbins (Harold Rubin)
Havank (Hans van der Kallen)
Herg (Georges Remi)
Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus)
Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg)
Irwin Shaw (Irwin Shamforoff)
Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)
J.K. Rowling (Joanne Rowling)
James Dillinger (James Robert Baker)
James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
Jay Livingston (Jacob Harold Levison)
Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert)
Johann Joachim Sautscheck (Roman Turovsky-Savchuk)
John Beynon (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
John Christopher (Samuel Youd)
John le Carre (David John Moore Cornwell)
John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
Joseph Conrad (Jzef Teodor Na?e;cz Konrad Korzeniowski)
Korney Chukovsky (Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov)
Keno (Eric Killinger)
Kinoysan (Ari Wulandari)
Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Lorenzo da Ponte (Emmanuele Conegliano)
Louis-Ferdinand Cline (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)
Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky)
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian)
Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart)
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
Nancy Boyd (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Natsume Soseki (Natsume Kinnosuke)
Nisa (Nicola Salerno)
Novalis (Friedrich Leopold)
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Ogdred Weary (Edward Gorey)
Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
Pandir Kelana (R.M. Slamet Danusudirdjo)
Paul Annixter (Howard Allison Sturtzel)
Paul Celan (Paul Antschel)
Pedje (Purwadi Djunaedi)
Jean Ray (Jean Raymond Marie de Kremer)
Pauline Rage (Anne Desclos)
Peter Gast (Heinrich Kselitz)
Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud)
Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)
Phillip Guston (Phillip Goldstein)
Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers)
Q (Arthur Quiller-Couch)
Remy Silado (Yappie Tambayong)
Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
Richard Leander (Richard von Volkmann)
Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis)
Romain Gary (Romain Kacew)
Rosemary Edghill (eluki bes shahar)
Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Lger Lger)
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
Sapper (H.C. McNeile)
Selasih (Sariamin Ismail)
Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin)
Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble)
Stash Cairo (Craig Hamilton)
Stefan Brockhoff (Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin)
Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)
Student (William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics)
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
Sutan Iwan Soekri Munaf (Sutan Roedy Irawan Syafrullah)
The Fredman (Karl Mikael Bellman)
Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabourot)
Titi Nginung (Arswendo Atmowiloto)
TM Maple (Jim Burke)
Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford)
Vercors (Jean Bruller)
Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian)
Umberto Saba (Umberto Poli)
Voltaire (Franois-Marie Arouet)
Walter (Henry Spencer Ashbee)
Willibald Alexis (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)
Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
Yevegny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev)
Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka)
Selasa, 09 September 2008
Quotation
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G.K. Chesterton (1874—1936)
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. Franklin P. Adams (1881—1960)
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. H.L. Mencken (1880—1956)
A detective digs around in the garbage of people's lives. A novelist invents people and then digs around in their garbage. Joe Gores
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore De Balzac (1799—1850)
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. Franklin P. Adams (1881—1960)
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. H.L. Mencken (1880—1956)
A detective digs around in the garbage of people's lives. A novelist invents people and then digs around in their garbage. Joe Gores
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore De Balzac (1799—1850)
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