John Agard

John Agard is born in June 1949 in British Guiana there now is Guyana. He grows op in Geogetown in British Guiana. In British Guiana he studies English, French and Latin and the same time he begging to writ poem. After he was finish with the studied he begging work. He works in a library and teaches in French, English and Latin. He published two books when he still lived in British Guiana. In 1977 John Agard and his partner grace Nichols moved to Britain. In Britain he work for BBC and commonwealth institute. John Agard writes in different genres, short story, poems, drama and children. We have read a text of John Agard. We read the text “Ms and Mrs Xenophobia” when we have about Multicultural Britain. 

Henry Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski, August 16, 1920 In Germany. When he was 3 years old he moved with his father, Charles who was an American soldier, and mother, Katharina who was a German, to USA. As the age 6-11 he got beat by his father and it had helped his written as he came to understand undeserved pain. He joined Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941 just before Second World War and after that he moved to New York so he could begin his career as a writer.  He has wrote thousand poems, hundreds of short stories and 6 novels and his written were influenced by social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles .It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. We have read one of his texts “Son of Satan”. He died by leukemia March 9, 1994 as the age 73 

Stephen King

Stephen King was born 21 September 1947 in Portland Maine. He is a successful American writer there are famous for his horror novels. His books are very popular and are among the best selling books ever. He has also written script for films and television series. He is married to woman writer Tabitha King in January 1971. King and Tabitha live in Bangor, Maine in USA.
King is the son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. When King was two years old, his father left the family, and Ruth King took care of Stephen King and his two years older adoptees big brothers often in difficult economic conditions.
From 1966 to 1970 studied King English at the University of Maine in Orono. It was there he met his wife Tabitha.
In 1967, sold King his first professional short story The Glass Floor for "Startling Mystery Stories. During this period got King also alcohol abuse in a decade, but with help of his wife and friends, came he out of it. For after publication of The Tommyknockers, went King's family and friends finally into the fight against his abuse, and he stopped all forms of drugs and alcohol the late eighties.
We will read text The Boogeyman, by Stephen King has written.

By Matilde Kjeldsen

Angela Carter

Angela Carter was born 7^th of May 1940, in Eastbourne, England and died the 16 Febuary 1992 at the age of 51, with the diagnostic of lung cancer. In her teenage years she struggled with anorexia, but that would not stop her. She followed her father’s footsteps with working as a journalist for the Croydon Advertiser. Later she went to the University of Bristol and studied English literature. Angela Carter had two marriages, the first one was with Paul Carter in 1960 and separated him in 1970, the second marriage was with Mark Pearce in 1977, they had a son together. In 1979 the bloody chamber was published by Gollancz which was a major British book publishing house, it is a short fiction collection, in the collection the text “the werewolf” is found, which is the text that we have read in in the class, but short fiction is not the only thing that she wrote, Angela Carter also wrote Poems and children books. In 2008 The Times ranked Angela Carter 10^th on their list of greatest British writers, she also received a price in 2012, where she was selected as the best winner ever of the “James Tait Black Memorial prize”. It is a literary prize which is awarded for literature that is written in English language.

Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave was born on 22 September 1957 in Victoria, Australia. He lived a troubled life as a young man. As he were arrested for burglary, his father died and his mother bailed him out. Later on, he started using heroin. After his father died, he started having success writing and turned out to be a great multiartist, besides being a writer he is also an actor and a singer in his band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. His first book was Avengers Assemble, which he wrote in 1988. Nick Cave have won many awards for his music and writing.

We have been working with the song "The Wild Rose".

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Was an American author. He was born at November 11^th 1922 and he died at April 11^th 2007. His father (Kurt Vonnegut) and his grandfather (Bernard Vonnegut) were architects in the Indianapolis firm Vonnegut & Bohn.

Vonnegut’s most famous works are “Cats Cradle” (1963), “Slaughterhouse-Five” (1969) and “Breakfast of Champions” (1973). He wrote in the genres satire, gallows humor and science fiction.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had an older brother (Bernard Vonnegut) and a sister (Alice Vonnegut). His mother committed suicide with sleeping pills when Vonnegut was 22 years old. Kurt Vonnegut was also an artist. In May 1940 he graduated from Shortridge High School and went to Cornell University to study chemistry. While he was at Cornell University he enlisted at United States Army. After that he went to the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee to study mechanical engineering.

When Vonnegut went home after the Second World War he got married with Jane Marie Cox and they had three kids. They got divorced in 1979 and Vonnegut married another woman called Jill Krementz. With her he adopted a little girl. Vonnegut also adopted his sister’s three kids when Alice Vonnegut died of cancer in 1958. Alice’s husband died in an accident two days before Alice died.

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen was born on 18th march 1893 and died 4th November 1918. He was a British poet, and was in the British army as well. In the summer of 1917, Wilfred went to a hospital in Edinburg for treatment for a shell shock, where he met Siegfried Sassoon, who also was a poet and an officer. This meeting with Siegfried changed Wilfred’s poesy to realism about the war. 
Wilfred Owen was born in Weston Lane in Shropshire. He is half English and half welsh. He was the eldest of 4 children. 
In 1898, Wilfred’s father, Thomas, got a job as stationmaster in Birkenhead at Woodside station, where they had no less than three homes. Wilfred was educated from Birkenhead Institute and later Shrewsbury Technical School. Wilfred was raised as an Anglican, and was in his youth a very strong believer. He had throughout his whole life, a strong relationship to his mother. 
In 1911 he passed his exam at the University of London, but not with the first-class honours, which was needed to get a scholarship, which was the only way his family could afford him to study there. 
In 1913, Wilfred went to Bordeaux, France to teach in English and French.
Wilfred was killed at the age of only 25, in the first world war, in the Sambre-Oise Canal in France, only one week before the end of the war. 



Mette Haarup

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon is born 8 September 1886 and died the 1 September 1967 in a ages of 80 by stomach cancer. Siegfried Sassoon was an English poet, novelist, biographer and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

He was born and raised in Matfield in England. His father Alfred Ezra Sassoon was Jewish and his mother Theresa Sassoon was an Anglo-Catholic. Sassoon was the second son of three sons, the others was called Michael and Hamo.

During Sassoons youth his biggest interest was fox-hunting, because he did not finish his studies and in this period he wrote some poetry, but did not get much intention. In 1914 he got into the army after the outbreak to World War 1. But a broken arm prevented him to get in battle. He came first in active battle in 1915. 1 November same year his younger brother Hamo was killed.

Sassoon was homosexual but got married to Hester Gatty and got his only son George. The marriage ended after the Word War 2.

And apparently he got a “relationship to the author and soldier Wilfred Owen, that we had read the famous poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”. Siegfried Sassoon met Wilfred Owen at the military school, and in 1917 they were both in a hospital in Edinburgh for shell chock.

The genre he wrote was Poetry, Fiction, Biography. 

Written by Nanna Gjesing

John Agard

Kirstine: John Agard.

His name is John Agard. He was born 21 June 1949 in British Guyana. He is Married with Grace Nichols, and they moved to UK in 1977, where they still live. When he was  little boy, he loved to listen cricket commentary on the radio, and then he started to make his own, which make him to love the language. And it is the reason to, why he started to love to write poems and stuff like that. He had studied English, French, and Latin on A-level. He began to write, his first poems in 6 (class/grate). But it was first when he was 16, some of his poems was published, and it was in the school magazines. In 1967 he left the school, and started to Work on the local library - on the same time he was also, sub-editor and feature writer for the Guyana Sunday Chronicle. He had worked for the commonwalth institute and BBC in London. He had written a lot of books, and here is some examples: Shoot me with flowers, Go Noah Go!, Travl Light Travel Dark. He had also won some different Awards, and here is some examples: Casa de las Americas prize(Cuba) for Man to Pan, Paul Hamlyn Award for poetry, and Queens Gold Medal for Poetry. He had, of course, also written the text "Mr and Mrs Xenophobia, we have read and worked with.

Enoch Powell

John Enoch Powell was born 16 June 1912 and died 8 February 1998. He was born in Birmingham where he lived the first six years of his life before moved to King’s Norton in 1918, where he lived until 1930. He was the only child of Albert Enoch Powell and his wife Ellen Mary. His father was a schoolteacher and so was his mother. But she stops teaching, to learn Greek and take care of John Enoch Powell.

He was a British conservative politician. Before he went into the policy, he has an academy career as professor of Greek. In 1950 he came into The House of Commons, because the people elected him. In 1960 to 1963 he was the health secretary of England. 

- Kimmie Christensen

Anhøj: Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English Arthur and poet. He lived from 30 dec. 1865 to 18 jan. 1936. He was born in Bombay, but his family took him to England when he was 5 years old. Rudyard Kipling is known for his poems about British soldiers and histales for children. Best known is the jungle book. He is one of the most popular writers in England in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1907 Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive Nobel Prize in Literature, and today he is still the youngest to receive that prize. He is also known for his defending British imperialism. The text we had read in class is “The white man’s burden”. He also has a city in Canada, which has his name. It’s called, “Town of Kipling”. He got a D Litt. on the Durham and Oxford Universities in 1907, on the Cambridge University in 1908, on Edinburgh University in 1920 and on Paris and Strasbourg University in 1921. In 1924 he also got an honor PhD on the Athen University.

Sasja - James Mercer Langston Hughes

(Jeg lægger det ind for Sasja, da hun ikke kan logge på bloggen)

James Mercer Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, play writer, and columnist. He was born the 1st of February 1902 in Joplin, Missouri and grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. After Langston’s parents were divorced, he was mainly raised by his grandmother. During high school he wrote for the school newspaper, edited the yearbook and he also began to write his first short stories, dramatic plays and poetry. As a young man he travelled a lot, Mexico, France and western Africa. In the end he decided to settle in, in Harlem, New York. Langston died the 22nd of May 1967, 65 years old. It is now known that he was homosexual.

Relationship with his father

Hughes had a very poor relationship with his father. They lived together in Mexico for a brief period in 1919. After graduating from high school in June 1920, Hughes returned to Mexico to live together with his father, hoping to convince him to support Langston’s plan to attend Columbia University. His father hoped for Langston to attend a university abroad, to study engineering. His father did not support his writing, but the two of them came to an agreement: Hughes would study engineering, as long as he could attend Columbia. He left his father after more than a year.

Art Langston’s first book was published in 1926. All in all he wrote 16 collections of poems, 2 novels, 3 collections of short stories, 4 collections of fictions, 20 plays, and poetry for children, musicals and operas, 3 biography and several articles. Also he edited 7 anthologies.

Poetry collections: “The Weary Blues” (1926)

Novels: “Not Without Laughter” (1930)

Short stories: “The ways of White Folks” (1934)

Plays: “Mule bone” (1934) “Black Nativity” (1961)

Author presentations

This year you will all be doing author presentations both in class and on the blog.
Write between 150-200 words in your presentation of the author.

Your blog post on the author in question has to include:

• A short biography on the author.
• A picture of the author.
• The names of texts written by the author, which we have read in class at one point or another.
• A list of the sources on the internet (or books) where you found information about the author.
• Give the blog post the label "Authors".