Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

male, 79 years old
ManBookerInternationalPrize, classic critical text, children's writer, Literary critic, Essayist, poet
Chinua Achebe (born November 16, 1930) is a Nigerian novelist and poet, an esteemed and controversial literary critic, and one of the most widely...
Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare

male, 73 years old
atheist, ManBookerInternationalPrize, Booker International Prize, writer, albanian, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
Ismail Kadare (born January 28, 1936) is a world-renowned Albanian writer. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca; in 2005, he won...
Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter

female, 68 years old
Toward a Feminist Poetics, ManBookerInternationalPrize, hysteria, modern language association, Victorian literature, feminist literary criticism
Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the...

John Carey

male, 75 years old
Merton Professor, from Barnes, ManBookerInternationalPrize, Merton Professor of English Literature, East Sheen, high culture…booker prize
John Carey (born April 5 1934) is a British literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He...
Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick

female, 81 years old
Georgetown University, Rea Award for the Short Story, New York University, American Academy of Arts and Letters, T.S. Eliot, Guardian of Zion Award…ManBookerInternationalPrize
In a quiet and perhaps inscrutable way, Cynthia Ozick has achieved acclaim and adulation that most certainly places her in the front ranks of the...