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Generación del 60
Generación del 60, also known as Generación Literaria de 1960, is a cohort of Chilean poets and writers who began publishing around 1960, interrupted by the 1973 military coup.
Generación del 900
Generación del 900, also called Generación del Novecientos, was a group of Uruguayan writers active from 1890 to 1910 who renewed modernismo and shaped Uruguayan literature.
Generación del Cincuenta
Generación del Cincuenta, also known as Generación del 50, is a Puerto Rican literary generation of the 1940s and 1950s including José Luis González and René Marqués.
Generation of '27
Generation of '27 (Generación del 27, Generation of 1925, Friendship Generation): Spanish poets named for the December 1927 Ateneo de Sevilla homage to Góngora; Lorca, Alberti, Cernuda and peers, Edad de Plata, exile after the Civil War.
Generation of '98
The Generation of '98 (Generación del 98) was a group of Spanish writers shaped by Spain's 1898 colonial defeat, including Unamuno, Baroja, Azorín, and Machado.
Generation of 1837
The Generation of 1837 (Generación del 37), also called the Young Argentine Generation, was an Argentine liberal intellectual movement that opposed dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
Geneviève Castrée
Geneviève Castrée (Geneviève Gosselin, 1981–2016), Quebec-born cartoonist and musician, creator of the graphic memoir Susceptible, who recorded as Woelv and Ô Paon and lived in Anacortes, Washington.
Geo Milev
Geo Milev (Гео Милев), born Georgi Kasabov Milev, was a Bulgarian expressionist poet best known for the poem September (1924); he disappeared in police custody in 1925.
Geoffrey Blainey
Geoffrey Blainey, born 1930 in Melbourne, is a prolific Australian historian whose more than forty books include The Tyranny of Distance and A Short History of the World.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s-1400), English poet and royal civil servant, author of The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and Book of the Duchess; comptroller of wool customs under Edward III and Richard II; drew on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch.
Geoffrey Keating
Geoffrey Keating (Irish: Seathrún Céitinn, c. 1580–1644) was an Irish Catholic priest, poet, and historian whose prose history Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (c. 1634) shaped Irish historiography for centuries.
Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes (1842–1927) was a Danish literary and cultural critic whose 1871 University of Copenhagen lectures, published as Main Currents in 19th Century Literature, launched the Modern Breakthrough.
Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner (1813 to 1837) was a German dramatist and natural scientist of the Vormärz whose plays Dantons Tod, Leonce und Lena, and Woyzeck founded modern drama.
Georg Herwegh
Georg Herwegh (1817–1875) was a German poet and revolutionary whose 1841 collection Gedichte eines Lebendigen made him famous; in 1848 he led German exiles into the Baden revolution.
Georg Heym
Georg Heym (1887–1912) was a German poet, playwright, and writer of short fiction, a central figure of early Expressionism best known for his apocalyptic big-city poems.
Georg Johannesen
Georg Johannesen (1931–2005) was a Norwegian poet, essayist, and literary scholar known for his society-critical essays and as Norway's first professor of rhetoric, at the University of Bergen.
Georg Kaiser
Georg Kaiser, full name Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, was a German dramatist and central figure of theatrical Expressionism, one of the most performed playwrights of the Weimar Republic.
Georg Neumark
Georg Neumark (1621–1681) was a German Lutheran poet, composer, and hymn writer, remembered for the hymn "Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten" and his Weimar offices.
Georg Stiernhielm
Georg Stiernhielm, born Göran Olofsson, was a Swedish civil servant, linguist, and poet (1598–1672), traditionally called the father of Swedish poetry for his classical verse, especially Hercules (1658).
Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl (1887–1914) was an Austrian lyric poet and principal figure of early German-language Expressionism whose dark, imagistic verse appears in Gedichte (1913) and Sebastian im Traum (1914).
George Bacovia
George Bacovia, born George Andone Vasiliu, was a Romanian symbolist poet whose debut volume Plumb (1916) is considered the point at which Romanian symbolism gained definitive recognition.
George Borrow
George Borrow (1803–1881) was an English writer, traveler, and linguist from Norfolk whose best seller The Bible in Spain and books on Gypsies and Wales made him a distinctive Victorian figure.
George Bowering
George Bowering is a Canadian poet, novelist, and critic from Penticton, British Columbia, who became Canada's first Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2002 and won Governor General's Awards for poetry and fiction.
George Chapman
George Chapman (1559–1634) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of Homer whose Iliad and Odyssey were the first English versions; Keats's 1816 sonnet fixed his fame.
George Coșbuc
George Coșbuc (1866–1918) was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist from Transylvania, best remembered for verses about rural life and Romanian translations of Homer, Virgil, and Dante.
George DiCaprio
George Paul DiCaprio, born in 1943 in New York, is an American writer of underground comix who was a leading figure in the 1970s West Coast comix scene.
George du Maurier
George du Maurier, born in Paris in 1834, was a British Punch cartoonist and novelist whose best-selling 1894 novel Trilby introduced the character Svengali to literature.
George Eliot
George Eliot, pen name of Mary Anne Evans (1819–1880), English Victorian novelist of Middlemarch, Adam Bede, and Daniel Deronda; also Westminster Review editor, translator of Strauss and Feuerbach, partner of George Henry Lewes.
George Gissing
George Gissing (1857–1903) was an English novelist who chronicled London poverty and the educated-but-poor lower middle class; his masterpiece is New Grub Street (1891), and he wrote 23 novels.
George Herbert
George Herbert (1593-1633), Welsh-born English metaphysical poet and Church of England clergyman, public orator at Cambridge, rector of Bemerton; posthumous The Temple (1633), reprinted twenty times by 1680.