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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/24/alice-oswalds-homeric-mood

Alice Oswald

Posted in O with tags Alice Oswald, Falling Awake, Homeric, Memorial, Ted Hughes on August 24, 2020 by katherinehilden

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poet

1996: The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282513-5

2002: Dart, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21410-X

2005: The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet (editor), Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21854-7

2005: Woods etc., Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21852-0

2009: Weeds and Wild Flowers, Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-23749-4

2009: A sleepwalk on the Severn, Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-24756-1

2011: Memoria,l Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-27416-1

2016: Falling Awake, Jonathan Cape

2019: Nobody, Jonathan Cape

2020: A Short Story of Falling – Metal Engravings by Maribel Mas. Published by Andrew J Moorhouse, Fine Press Poetry

1994: Eric Gregory Award

2005: shortlisted for Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), for Woods etc.

2009: Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for Weeds and Wild Flowers

2013: Warwick Prize for Writing, winner for Memorial

2013: Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry, winner for Memorial

2016: Costa Award for Poetry for Falling Awake

2017: Griffin Poetry Prize for Falling Awake

Iris Origo

Posted in O with tags Byron, English writer in Italy, Iris Origo, Mussolini years on July 15, 2020 by katherinehilden

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1902-1988

biographer, writer

Tribune of Rome: A Biography of Cola di Rienzo (1938), on the 14th-century Roman revolutionary

War in Val d’Orcia (1947; NYRB edition 2018), diary of the last years of Fascism and liberation of Italy

The Last Attachment (1949), on Byron and Countess Guiccioli

Giovanni and Jane (1950), a children’s book

A Measure of Love (1957), biographical essays

Images and Shadows (1970), an elegiac autobiography

A Need to Testify (1984), biographies of Ignazio Silone, Gaetano Salvemini, Ruth Draper and Lauro de Bosis, four opponents of Fascism

Un’amica. Ritratto di Elsa Dallolio (1988), a memoir of an old friend

A Chill in the Air – An Italian War Diary 1939–1940. 2017

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Flannery O’Connor

Posted in O with tags A Good Man Is Hars To Find on June 23, 2020 by katherinehilden

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1925-1964

Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Wise Blood , 1952

The Violent Bear It Away, 1960

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955

Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965

The Complete Stories, 1971

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/how-racist-was-flannery-oconnor

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/16/my-dear-god

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/01/29/this-lonesome-place

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/07/06/flannery-oconnor-cartoonist/

https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/joseph-oneill-11-11-19

Joseph O’Neill

Posted in O with tags cultural critic, fiction writer, lawyer on December 2, 2019 by katherinehilden

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The Flier, short story

Netherland (Pantheon; Fourth Estate) (2008)

The Dog (Pantheon; Fourth Estate) (2014)

Good Trouble (2018)

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Joyce Carol Oates

Posted in O with tags editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, poet, professor, short-story writer on November 1, 2019 by katherinehilden

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Pursuit, Mysterious Press | 9780802147912 | Published October 1, 2019

Published 58 novels and collections of stories, including:

The Wheel of Love and Other Stories, 1970: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Black Water, 1993

What I Lived For, 1995

Blonde, 2001

Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories, 2015

A Garden of Earthly Delights, 2015

Expensive People, 1969

Wonderland, 1972

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, 1990

Black Water, 1992

What I Lived For, 1995

The Gravedigger’s Daughter, 2007

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Posted in O with tags Politician on July 5, 2019 by katherinehilden

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U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/books/mary-olivers-dog-songs-finds-poetry-in-friends.html?_r=0

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Mary Oliver

Posted in O with tags poet. American on October 15, 2013 by artamaze

http://leafstitchword.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/writers-dozen-mary-oliver-and-sound/

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Sharon Olds

Posted in O with tags poetry, Pulitzer Prize, Stag's Leap on April 22, 2013 by artamaze

“Stag’s Leap,” by Sharon Olds (Alfred A. Knopf). Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2013

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Michelle Obama

Posted in O with tags bangs, Michelle Obama, style on April 15, 2013 by artamaze

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