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Celtic Twilight

The Celtic Twilight (1893, revised 1902) is a collection of Irish folk tales and beliefs gathered by W. B. Yeats from the rural working class of western Ireland.

Celtic Woman

Celtic Woman is an all-female Irish music ensemble founded in Dublin in 2004 by David Downes, known for PBS specials, an 81-week Billboard World Music No. 1 debut album, rotating lineups, and over 12.5 million album sales.

Celyn Jones

Celyn Jones (born 1979) is a Welsh actor, screenwriter, director and producer from Anglesey; BAFTA Cymru winner for Manhunt, writer-star of Set Fire to the Stars, director of The Almond and the Seahorse and Madfabulous, and co-founder of Mad as Birds.

Cem Adrian

Cem Adrian, born Cem Filiz in Edirne in 1980, is a Turkish singer-songwriter known for a reported 4.5-octave range and arrangements built from his own voice.

Cem Karaca

Cem Karaca (Muhtar Cem Karaca, 1945–2004), Turkish Anatolian rock pioneer with Apaşlar, Kardaşlar, Moğollar, Dervişan; left-wing songs, 1983 citizenship loss, German exile, 1987 return.

Cemal Süreya

Cemal Süreya (1931–1990), born Cemalettin Seber, was a Turkish poet, essayist, and translator and a leading voice of the İkinci Yeni movement, known for Üvercinka and his magazine Papirüs.

Cemetery of Forgotten Books

Cemetery of Forgotten Books (El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados) is Carlos Ruiz Zafón's Barcelona quartet, 2001–2016, and its secret library where visitors protect one chosen book for life; The Shadow of the Wind sold about 25 million copies.

Cemetery of Mind

Cemetery of Mind: Collected Poems of Dambudzo Marechera is a 1992 posthumous collection of about 140 poems by the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, edited by Flora Veit-Wild.

Cemil Meriç

Cemil Meriç (1916–1987) was a Turkish essayist, translator, and thinker who sought to bridge Eastern and Western thought in works like Bu Ülke, despite going blind in 1955.

Cen Shen

Cen Shen (岑参, 715–770) was a Tang dynasty poet who twice served in the Western Regions and wrote more than 70 frontier poems, paired with Gao Shi as "Gao–Cen".

Cenab Şahabeddin

Cenab Şahabeddin, also known as Cenap Şahabettin, was an Ottoman and Turkish poet, prose writer, and physician, the leading poet of the Servet-i Fünûn movement of 1896 to 1901.

Cénacle

A cénacle is a small closed circle of people sharing the same ideas and tastes, especially the Romantic literary groups around Nodier and Hugo in the 1820s.

Cenaclul de luni

Cenaclul de luni (the Monday Cenacle) was a Bucharest student literary circle, led by critic Nicolae Manolescu from 1977 to 1983, that formed the nucleus of Romania's 1980s poets.

Cenaclul Flacăra

Cenaclul Flacăra was a Romanian mass cultural movement of poetry, folk, and rock spectacles founded by poet Adrian Păunescu in 1973 and banned by the authorities in June 1985.

Cendol

Cendol (chendol, dawet, lod chong) is a Southeast Asian iced dessert of green pandan starch jelly strands with coconut milk and palm sugar, documented in Dutch East Indies records from 1859 and 1866 and a Malaysian heritage food.

Cenk Torun

Cenk Torun is a Turkish actor born in 1974 in Ankara, best known for playing Oktay in Çılgın Bediş (1996–2001) and Orhun Demirhanlı in the daily series Esaret (2022–2025).

Cenobite (Hellraiser)

Cenobites are the extradimensional, sadomasochistic beings of Clive Barker's Hellraiser, first appearing in The Hellbound Heart (1986) and Hellraiser (1987). Summoned via the Lament Configuration puzzle box, led by Pinhead (Doug Bradley), they blur pain and pleasure, unlike slasher villains.

Cenote Zamna Tulum

Zamna Tulum is an 11-hectare eco-hotel and event venue built around a natural cenote in the Tulum jungle, Mexico, hosting the Zamna Festival's winter electronic-music season since 2017.

Censor

Censor (2021) is a British psychological horror film, the debut feature of Welsh director Prano Bailey-Bond, starring Niamh Algar as 1980s film censor Enid, whose review of a video nasty echoes her sister's disappearance; Sundance premiere, 84 minutes, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Censored Eleven

The Censored Eleven: eleven Warner Bros. Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts (1931-1944), including Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, withdrawn from US TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist content and never officially reissued.

Centaurworld

Centaurworld is a Netflix animated musical comedy series created by Megan Nicole Dong, premiering July 30, 2021. A war horse voiced by Kimiko Glenn lands in a land of singing centaurs; two seasons, two animation studios, Toby Chu composer.

Centennial (miniseries)

Centennial is a 12-episode American television miniseries broadcast on NBC from 1978 to 1979, adapted from James A. Michener's 1974 novel about a Colorado town's history.

Center for Puppetry Arts

Center for Puppetry Arts: Atlanta nonprofit founded by Vincent Anthony, opened September 23, 1978 with Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog; largest US nonprofit solely dedicated to puppetry, with the world's largest Jim Henson puppet collection.

Center Stage (2000 film)

Center Stage is a 2000 American drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Amanda Schull, Zoe Saldana, and ballet dancer Ethan Stiefel as students competing for a professional ballet company.

Center Stage (阮玲玉) (1991 film)

Center Stage (阮玲玉) is Stanley Kwan's 1991 Hong Kong biopic of silent-film star Ruan Lingyu, starring Maggie Cheung, who won the 1992 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress.

Centerfold (song)

"Centerfold" is a 1981 song by the J. Geils Band, written by Seth Justman for the album Freeze-Frame; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks in 1982, the band's only number-one single.

Cento

A cento is a poem composed entirely of lines taken from existing poems, chiefly Homer and Virgil, a patchwork form arising in Greek and Latin antiquity.

Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院)

Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院, Zhongxi) is China's first theatre-dedicated higher education institution, a Ministry of Education 'Double First-class' university in Beijing founded 1949-1950 from Yan'an's Lu Xun Art College, alma mater of Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li.

Central American social novel

The Central American social novel is a current of fiction from the 1930s onward depicting the peasantry, indigenous peoples, and exploited regions, denouncing dictatorship and foreign domination.

Central Board of Film Certification

Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), formerly Central Board of Film Censors, is India's statutory film certification body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, headquartered in Mumbai, certifying films U, UA, A, or S under the Cinematograph Act 1952.