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merigreenleaf, aluvalibri, tiffin, joiedevivre, euqubud, Caroline_McElwee, tomary, the_red_shoes, veracity, razzamatazz, deidrich, leore_joanne, RedRose114, swanbreast, MollyMac, Othniel, ksmrt, avantgarde89, otherlander, PhaedraB, Dr_Benway, ariatari, julieshedd, Stevil2001, vstars, almigwin, CherylsPearls, Mitallian, yetish, DLSmithies, Bahiyya, PandorasRequiem, alheard, quasar360, phantasmogoria, ijon, privé-lid, EncompassedRunner, shakti_truffle, holly_golightly, vyvyan23, CharlotteDeBeaufort, MsCellophane, tartalom, privé-lid, PhilOPosia, truly_bohemian, thecynicalromantic, marietherese, dodger, clamairy Oscar Wilde heeft 1 media optredens. Books to read for Book Club Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories [Nine stories].Brought by our guest Julia Baird, Oscar Wilde’s short but beautiful and bittersweet story of a gilded statue who gives all that he has to give is one that has touched generations of readers. Winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize Jennifer Egans’ extraordinary, elastic novel shuttles the reader backwards and forwards though time and place, following the lives of former punk rocker now successful music biz tycoon, Bennie and his personal assistant Sasha. (alexdaw)… (meer)
Oscar Wilde heeft 22 afgelopen evenementen. (show)  Oscar Wilde, edited by Nicholas Frankel, The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
 Catherine Mavrikakis, Oscar de Profundis, Editions Sabine Wespieser
 ROUND TABLE: Forms of Fiction A novel, a short story collection, an encyclopedic collage—authors talk the myriad forms a story can take. Catherine Bush moderates. Catherine Bush is the author of four novels: Amazon.ca Best Book Accusation, the Trillium Award-shortlisted Claire’s Head, The Rules of Engagement (which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book) and Minus Time. Her non-fiction has appeared in the anthology The Heart Does Break and elsewhere. She coordinates the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA.
Emma Donoghue is a writer of contemporary and historical fiction whose eight novels include the internationally bestselling Room—winner of both the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and Caribbean Region) and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize—as well as Slammerkin, Life Mask and The Sealed Letter. She lives in London, Ontario with her partner and their two children. Donoghue presents her latest novel, Frog Music, a lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes in San Francisco in 1876.
Aislinn Hunter’s acclaimed collection of stories, What's Left Us, was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award and the ReLit Award, and her poetry, Into the Early Hours, was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Hunter’s novel Stay was a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and was recently adapted for film. She presents The World Before Us, her first book of fiction in 12 years. It is a riveting exploration of the repercussions of small acts, the power of affection and the irrepressible vitality of everyday objects and events.
Eliza Robertson studied creative writing at the University of Victoria, then pursued her MA in prose fiction at the University of East Anglia, where she received a Man Booker Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize for best writer. She was a finalist for the 2013 CBC Short Story Prize, won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for "We Walked on Water," and her short story "My Sister Sang" was shortlisted for the 2013 Journey Prize. Robertson presents her debut collection, Wallflowers, a quirky and masterful bouquet that smashes stereotypes and shows us remarkable new ways of experiencing the world.
Diane Schoemperlen has published several collections of short fiction and three novels. Her short story collection The Man of My Dreams was shortlisted for both the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Book Award. In 2008, she received the Marian Engel Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Schoemperlen presents By the Book: Stories and Pictures, a sequel to her Governor General’s Award-winning Forms of Devotion, in which she pieces together fragments from old encyclopedias in the form of verbal and visual collage, breathing new life into the old forgotten texts.
Sunday, November 2, 2014 - 2:00 PM Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto M5J 2G8
Cost: $18/$15 supporters/FREE students & youth 25 and under (Jenni_Canuck)… (meer)
 READING: Charles Foran, Lee Henderson, Diane Schoemperlen and Kim Thúy Writers Charles Foran, Lee Henderson, Diane Schoemperlen and Kim Thúy read from their latest works. Alissa York hosts. Charles Foran is an award-winning journalist and the author of 10 books, including four previous novels. His biography Mordecai: The Life and Times won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Literary Nonfiction and the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award. Foran presents Planet Lolita. Told in the voice of a bi-racial girl and the language of social media, it is a riveting novel of desires and consequences in the unfolding digital age in Hong Kong.
Lee Henderson is the author of the award-winning short story collection The Broken Record Technique. He is a contributing editor to the arts magazines Border Crossings in Canada and Contemporary in the UK, and has published fiction and art criticism in numerous periodicals. His first novel, The Man Game, won the BC Book Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Henderson presents his latest novel, The Road Narrows as You Go, a bright, rollicking, unflinching portrait of the 1980s and of a young woman struggling to find her place.
Diane Schoemperlen has published several collections of short fiction and three novels. Her short story collection The Man of My Dreams was shortlisted for both the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Book Award. In 2008, she received the Marian Engel Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Schoemperlen presents By the Book: Stories and Pictures, a sequel to her Governor General’s Award-winning Forms of Devotion, in which she pieces together fragments from old encyclopedias in the form of verbal and visual collage, breathing new life into the old forgotten texts.
Kim Thúy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. Her debut novel, Ru, won the Governor General’s Award for French-Language Fiction, and the English edition was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Thúy presents Mãn, a mystery about a woman who, upon discovering that she is a natural chef, creates dishes that are suffused with memory and emotion.
Alissa York’s internationally acclaimed novels include Mercy, Effigy (shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize) and, most recently, Fauna (shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award). She is also the author of the short fiction collection Any Given Power, from which stories have won the Journey Prize and the Bronwen Wallace Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in such periodicals as The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, Eighteen Bridges and Canadian House and Home. York has lived all over Canada and now makes her home in Toronto with her husband, artist Clive Holden.
Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 5:00 PM Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay West. Toronto M5J 2G8
Cost: $18/$15 supporters/FREE students & youth 25 and under (Jenni_Canuck)… (meer)
 The Next Big Thing: June: Ellie Marney, Liam Pieper, Tom O'Byrne and Diana Sweeney With each year that passes, Australia consistently produces a wealth of new literary talent. From debut novelists to short-story writers, memoirists to poets, we are truly living in a golden age for the written word. How to keep up? It’s simple. Once a month, head on down to The Next Big Thing, where you will hear from and meet four exciting new authors, and maybe a few who’ve been around for a while but haven’t had the exposure they deserve. These are the literary stars of tomorrow. Come and hear from them today.
Ellie Marney is a young adult author whose debut crime thriller Every Breath came out in 2013, and is followed this year by Every Word, and in 2015 by Every Move.
Liam Pieper is a journalist and author whose memoir about being an inept gangster, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year, hits the shelves this month.
Tom O’Byrne is a short-story writer and student, currently working on his first novel.
Diana Sweeney is a lecturer and model, whose acclaimed debut young adult novel The Minnow is out this winter.
Diana Sweeney
Diana Sweeney is a university lecturer and model, whose acclaimed debut young adult novel The Minnow is out this winter.
Liam Pieper
Liam Pieper’s grandmother introduces him to her friends, as ‘my grandson who writes for the Internet’. You might find his work in the Monthly, Meanjin, The Best of The Lifted Brow, Going Down Swinging and The Sleepers Almanac. His memoir, The Feelgood Hit of The Year, is published by Penguin Australia in 2014. He is co-recipient of the 2014 M Literary Residency. Find him on twitter @liampieper.
Tom O'Byrne
Tom O’Byrne is someone who writes despite the loneliness and acute awareness of death. His reasons are probably selfish but are mostly unknown. He has regular dreams about living in fictitious worlds, violence and superfluous romance that he wishes were true. Although this sounds dismal, his life is whimsical and highly entertaining.
Ellie Marney
Ellie Marney is a teacher and Young Adult author who specializes in crime and all things involving dastardly mystery. Her highly-awarded adult short stories have been published in Australia and the UK, and her debut YA crime thriller Every Breath (Allen & Unwin, 2013) is followed by two sequels, Every Word (June 2014), and Every Move (March 2015). (rodneyvc)… (meer)Locatie: The Moat, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria. 3000
 Kim Triedman, The Other Room " The Other Room brims with intensity, focusing a laser beam on the way love, grief, infidelity, suspicion, disappointment, and hope can collide in a close extended family after a child's death. Triedman is a keen observer of the human psyche, and her prose breathes with the rhythms of real life." Jessica Treadway, author of Please Come Back To Me "Triedman jolts you with her flesh-and-blood characters as they navigate a landscape of secrets and self-discovery following upon an unspeakable loss. A visceral, sensuous read." Kate Southwood, author of Falling to Earth Kim Triedman is the author of the poetry collections bathe in it or sleep and Plum(b). In the past few years she has won or been shortlisted in over ten additional poetry and fiction competitions. Ms. Triedman is also the developer and editor of Poets for Haiti: An Anthology of Art, a volume which grew out of a benefit event she co-organized and co-chaired involving Robert Pinsky, Rosanna Warren, Gail Mazur and other Boston-area poets. Her work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Main Street Rag, Women Arts Quarterly, Poetry International, Atticus Review and numerous other literary journals and anthologies. She is a graduate of Brown University and is currently the managing editor of Ibbetson Street.
Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (toegevoegd uit IndieBound)… (meer)
 Required Reading Revisited Book Club - discussing The Picture of Dorian Gray Remember those books you were required to read in school? Required Reading Revisited is a chance to take a second (or first) look at some of the books you were made to read in school. Meeting the second Sunday of every month at 5PM, this month’s title is THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde. Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (toegevoegd uit IndieBound)… (meer)
 Second Looks at Favorite Books
 Literature into Film Bookgroup Description: Join us to read the book and/or watch the film of classic works of literature. Book to be discussed - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Location: Meeting Room B Other Information:Beverages are provided and members take turns bringing treats. Library staff will assist participants in obtaining books for the discussion groups. Sign up at the Fiction, Movies and Music Desk at the library, or call 328-2305.
End Time: 2:30 PM
Presenter: Greg Sauve/Frank Hawthorne (MDGentleReader)… (meer)
Exhibition : Paintings by Andra Krumins @ Leichhardt Library 2nd - 31st January 2013 There is no surer way of evading the world than by Art; and no surer way of uniting with it than by Art. - Goethe. This is a collection of paintings and drawings with affectionate reference, or allusion to certain given writings, authors or quotes, broadly ranging from Collodi to Xenophon, Brecht to Wilde... Definitely worth a summer's read!
Leichhardt Library Library opening hours January 2 - 31, 2013 Enquiries - 9367 9266 Free exhibition (marq)… (meer)
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| Literaire agenten | | Korte biografie | Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams, plays, and his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde prosecuted the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison, he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On his release, he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.  | |
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