Gabriela Mistral (1889 –1957) was the first Latin American author and fifth woman to receive a Nobel Prize for literature. Her poetry was praised by the jury for the way
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Yente Serdatzky
Yente Serdatzky (1877-1962) pursued her radical ideals and literary ambitions in turn-of-the-century Warsaw, and fled from persecution to New York City in 1906. Factory girls, tired peddlers, refugee intelligentsia and
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is one of America’s the most celebrated writers. She is best known for novels such as The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome,
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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 – 1941) is considered to be one of Russia’s greatest poets. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine
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Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932) was an important journalist, activist and author of fiction whose work was banned and largely forgotten during the Franco dictatorship years. As well as being the
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Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948) was an American novelist, playwright and painter. Her marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald drew public attention and she was described by the press as the first American
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Magda Isanos (1916-1944) is one of Romania’s most important early twentieth century poets. Isanos also worked as a journalist and lawyer and was involved in left-wing activism. When Isanos was
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Maria Messina (1887-1944) was hailed by Leonardo Sciascia as the ‘Italian Katherine Mansfield’. Born in Palermo, then later moved between Umbria, Tuscany, the Marches, and Naples. After teaching herself to
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Dorka Talmon (1906-1957) was born in Poland and became one of the founding members of Kibbutz Ein Hachoresh . The Kibbutz was set up in 1931/2 in Palestine (since 1948
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) was an American poet, teacher, journalist and political activist. She is one of the key figures of the Harlem Renaissance movement. She contributed to The Woman’s Era,
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Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) was an English writer best known for her novel The Well of Loneliness, a novel with lesbian themes. The result of an obscenity trial in 1928 meant
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is considered one of the most important modernist writers and was a founding member of the artistic and literary “Bloomsbury Group”. She pioneered the “stream of consciousness”
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