January LitBirthdays

January is National Hot Tea Month

January 1 Happy New Year! Edward Morgan Forster Isma’il Raji al-Faruqi René de Ceccatty	January 2 André Aciman Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Isaac Asimov Lynda Barry	January 3 Rodrigo de la Cadena John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Marcus Tullius Cicero Savitri Bai Phule
January 4 Harlan Coben Gao Xingjian	January 5 Hayao Miyazaki 宮崎 駿 Umberto Eco	January 6 Carl Sandburg Karin Slaughter Idris Davies C.D. Wright
January 7 Nicholson Baker Shobhaa Dé Zora Neale Hurston	January 8 Stephen Hawking Terence Dean “Terry” Brooks Gaston Miron Fanny Bullock Workman	January 9 Simone de Beauvoir Hayim Nachman Bialik Thorvald Steen
January 10 Peter Barnes Louise Carver Fran Walsh	January 11 Alan Paton Siti Nurhaliza Sulamith Wülfing	January 12 Jack London Ferenc Molnár Inoue Takehiko Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹)
January 13 Shahnon Ahmad Flora Nwapa Jay McInerney	January 14 LL Cool J Emily Hahn Albert Schweitzer	January 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Sonya Kovalevsky Giles Milton Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) Mikki Doyle (Miriam Leventhal)

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January 16 Garth Ennis Robert W. Service Laura Riding	January 17 Anne Bronte Benjamin Franklin Brian Thomas Helgeland	January 18 A.A. Milne A.A. Milne too Sally Morgan
January 19 Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe too Breda Smolnikar	January 20 Ernesto Cardenal Nancy Kress Uni Arge	January 21 Judith Merril Richie Havens Eva Ibbotson
January 22 Subhash Ram Prajapati Arkady Gaidar Francis Bacon	January 23 Elvira Lindo Derek Walcott	January 24 Marguerite Durand Edith Wharton Vítězslava Kaprálová
January 25 Gloria Naylor Virginia Woolf David Grossman	January 26 Shinjo Mayu Jules Feiffer Henry Jaglom	January 27 Eliette Abécassis Mordecai Richler Djavan
January 28 Colette José Martí Arnaldur Indriðason Frank Darabont	January 29 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Leslie Bricusse Olga Tokarczuk Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov Germaine Greer Grazyna Miller	January 30 Lady Anne Clifford Jack Spicer Anton Tammsaare
January 31 Daniel Tammet Arnold Geulincx K.Maro Kenzaburō Ōe

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Happy New Year 2019!

Happy New Year!

Good Morning!

(Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds (dubbed by Betty Noyes) sing and dance Good Morning! in the 1952 film Singin’ in the Rain)

A Sunny Day!

(The Three Tenors – Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, José Carreras – sing about their sunny day, O Sole Mio)

Kingdom Choir sings Stand by Me at wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

24 Hours in New York – On the Town

https://goo.gl/xhsze9

The Ladies Face Another Day

(Aretha Franklin, Carole King, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain sing Natural Woman in the 1998 Divas concert)

https://goo.gl/DUT32u

Let It Be

performed by Carol Woods and Timothy T. Mitchum in film Across the Universe

Mending Hearts

Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette sing
Silver Threads and Golden Needles

https://goo.gl/R1Q74O

Sisters

Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Dionne Warwick sing
Everything You Touch Is a Song

https://goo.gl/GXRu4O

or long medley with “There’s a Place…”
https://goo.gl/NJRUUk

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Acapella Soul

Circle of Life

December LitBirthdays

December

December 1 Candace Bushnell Rex Stout Woody Allen Richard Pryor	December 2 Yaël Dayan (Hebrew: יעל דיין‎ ) Jüri Reinvere Botho Strauss Elizabeth Berg Ann Patchett	December 3 Boris A. Novak Jean-Luc Godard Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) Daniel Bedingfield Alaíde Foppa de Solórzano
December 4 Wen Shaoxian (溫紹賢) Frances Power Cobbe Rainer Maria Rilke Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter)	December 5 Rose Wilder Lane Walt Disney Miloš Đukelić Joan Didion	December 6 Martin Hirsch Eve Curie Labouisse James Elphinston Ira Gershwin Tomson Highway
December 7 Noam Chomsky Willa Cather Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi [عبدالرحمن صوفی] Dom Joseph Pothier	December 8 Horace Delmore Schwartz Nicki Minaj	December 9 Imogen Heap Joel Chandler Harris Grace Hopper Edoardo Sanguineti Avraham B. Yehoshua
December 10 Marina Orlova ( Марина Владимировна Орлова ) Emily Dickinson Maria Benitez (Maria Bibiana Benitez Constanza)	December 11 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын ) Subramanya Bharathi Harriet Stratemeyer Adams Teri Garr	December 12 Christian Metz Robert Lepage Gustave Flaubert
December 13 James Wright Amy Lee Heinrich Heine	December 14 Tove Ditlevsen Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame) Lucrecia Martel	December 15 Donald Goines (pseudonym Al C Clark) Betty Smith (Elisabeth Wehner) Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof

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December 16 Benny Andersson Noel Coward Barbara Smith Ed Ruscha	December 17 Es’kia Mphahlele John Greenleaf Whittier William Safire	December 18 Hal Kanter Alfred Bester Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov
December 19 Péter Tímár Gisèle Freund Su Tung-p’o [Su Shi]	December 20 Kate Atkinson Nalo Hopkinson Väinö Linna	December 21 Edward Hoagland Heinrich Boll Ivan Blatný
December 22 Eduard Uspensky Giacomo Puccini Kenneth Rexroth	December 23 Alison Sudol Katie Underwood Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa	December 24 Mary Higgins Clark Herbert Reinecker Isador Feinstein Stone
December 25 Sheila Heti Dido (Florian Armstrong) Rod Serling	December 26 David Sedaris Narendra Prasad Alejo Carpentier	December 27 Greg Mortenson Mirza Ghalib Kevin Patterson
December 28 Liu Xiaobo Shen Congwen (Shen Ts’ung-wen) 沈從文 Mortimer J. Adler	December 29 Gilbert Adair William Gaddis Dallas Austin	December 30 Julia Briggs Alfredo Bracchi Joseph Rudyard Kipling
December 31 Machi Tawara Siné Odetta Holmes Gordon Ronnie del Carmen

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November LitBirthdays

November

November 1 Hermann Broch Kamaria Muntu	November 2 Odysseas Elytis Jorge de Sena	November 3 Kath Walker / Oodgeroo Noonuccal Jesús Blasco Lulu
November 4 Will Rogers Walter Cronkite Rodrigo Rey Rosa	November 5 Uzodinma Iweala Raymond Loewy Rana Dasgupta Philip V. Francis Sam Shepard	November 6 Ariana Gillis Karin Fossum Laure Junot, Duchesse d’Abrantès
November 7 Joni Mitchell Chrystos Antonio Skármeta Albert Camus Jellybean Benitez	November 8 Richard Curtis Kazuo Ishiguro Teofilo Folengo Eric Harland	November 9 Danielle Trussoni Benjamin Banneker Ivan Turgenev
November 10 Holly Black Aka Morchiladze Tim Rice Jonas Åkerlund	November 11 Douglas Rogers Alicia Ostriker Carlos Fuentes	November 12 Ivo Urbančič Neil Young Bahá’u’lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-`Alí Nuri
November 13 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Nico Scheepmaker Ari Hoenig	November 14 Karen Armstrong René de Clercq	November 15 Marianne Moore Writers in Prison Day

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November 16 Chinua Achebe Arvid Järnefelt	November 17 Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Steven E. de Souza Randy Black	November 18 Wilma Pearl Mankiller Margaret Atwood Frances Marion Herman ‘Ze German’ Rarebell Cindy Blackman
November 19 Zygmunt Bauman Yuri Knorozov	November 20 Nadine Gordimer Alistair Cooke Sheema Kalbasi	November 21 Isaac Bashevis Singer Tina Brown Qian Zhongshu
November 22 Victor Pelevin George Eliot Marjane Satrapi	November 23 Charles Frambach Berlitz Nirad C. Chaudhuri Lidija Bajuk Ishmael Beah	November 24 Stephen Merchant Dale Carnegie Yoshiko Uchida
November 25 Thea Gilmore Lope de Vega Alexis Wright Sean Jefferson	November 26 Charles M. Schulz Eugène Ionesco Benjamin Wysocki	November 27 Twista (Carl Terrell Mitchell) Ernie Wise Harivansh Rai Bachchan Tim Yeung
November 28 Kinoko Nasu (奈須 きのこ Nasu Kinoko) Linda Lucero Fragua Dervla Murphy Jonathan “Jon” Stewart Alfonso Cuaron (Orozco) Matt Cameron	November 29 George Szirtes Timaya Carlo Levi Billy Hart	November 30 Marina Abramović Lucy Maud Montgomery David Mamet Gordon Parks Chris Claremont Roy Burns

October LitBirthdays

October (10)

October 1 Julie Andrews Majrooh Sultanpuri (Asrar Hussain Khan) Jimmy Carter	October 2 Annie Leibovitz Bud Abbott Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx Mahatma Gandhi	October 3 John Patrick Shanley Alvin Toffler Talib Kwili
October 4 Adam Hollanek Kazuki Takahashi Anne Rice Rene (Mable Neighbour) Cloke	October 5 Zoran Živković Václav Havel Bernie Mac Magda Szabó	October 6 David Brin Ayten Mutlu Ariane Dreyfus
October 7 Andreea Iacob Sherman Alexie, Jr. Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) John Cougar Mellencamp	October 8 Ha Joon Chang Yechezkel (Ezekiel) Landau Harvey Lawrence Pekar	October 9 Jody Williams Ivo Andric John Lennon Jackson Browne Georgi Tenev
October 10 Dilsa Demirbag Sten Ken Saro-Wiwa Frederick Barthelme	October 11 Amos Gitai Thích Nhất Hạnh Elmore Leonard	October 12 Rafael Ábalos Richard Price Ding Ling (Jiǎng Bīngzhī 蒋冰之) Dick Gregory
October 13 Selima Hill Christine Nöstlinger Lenny Bruce	October 14 Hannah Arendt Erik Johan Stagnelius Edward Estlin Cummings	October 15 Hans Lindahl Biljana Srbljanović Mario Puzo

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October 16 George Washington Williams George Turner Robert Hall Weir (Bob Weir)	October 17 Alexandrine Tinné Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III) Jupiter Hammon	October 18 Juan Tamariz Thomas Love Peacock Jan Erik Vold
October 19 Agnès Jaoui John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) Miguel Ángel Asturias	October 20 Claudio Bergamin Dorothea Rosa Herliany Art Buchwald Lepa Brena	October 21 Salomé Ureña de Henríquez Simon Gray Ursula Le Guin
October 22 John Wesley Harding Madhav Ghimire Doris Lessing Deepak Chopra	October 23 Antjie Krog Weird Al Yankovic (Alfred Matthew Yankovic) Michael Crichton	October 24 Ziraldo Alves Pinto Emma Donoghue Alexandra David-Néel
October 25 Christos Tsiolkas Suheir Hammad Anne Tyler Geoffrey Chaucer Zadie Smith	October 26 Carlo Lucarelli Shan Sa Infinito 2017 (Marcellous Lamont Lovelace)	October 27 Francis Fukuyama Albert Wendt Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوى‎)
October 28 Frédéric C. Martel Ayi Kwei Armah Louis Jenkins	October 29 Frans de Waal Zbigniew Herbert Derek Miller	October 30 Robert Caro Louis Malle Grace Slick (Grace Barnett Wing) Marcello Gagliani Caputo
October 31 Roy Arogan Susan Orlean John Keats

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September LitBirthdays

September

September 1 Nelson George James Reaney Eleanor Hibbert (aka Victoria Holt Lily Tomlin	September 2 Tim Key Tom Glazer William C. Rhoden Tetsuo Hara 原 哲夫	September 3 Eduardo Galeano Naomi Lewis Mahjoor (Ghulam Ahmad) Mort Walker Spike Feresten
September 4 Joan Aiken Antonin Artaud Damon Kyle Wayans  Richard Wright	September 5 Bob Newhart Werner Herzog Robert Fergusson Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara)	September 6 Sergio Aragonés Edward Einhorn Christopher Brookmyre Robyn Davidson Robert Pirsig
September 7 Elia Kazan  (Janet) Taylor Caldwell Houshang Moradi Kermani	September 8 Boris Ryzhy  Michael Frayn Kimberly Peirce Jack Prelutsky	September 9 Aleksandar Hemon Leo Tolstoy Sonia Sanchez
September 10 Shlomo Sand Franz Werfel Charles Kuralt Andrei Makine	September 11 Katri Vala D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence Tony Gilroy	September 12 Kristin Hunter Lattany Louis Macneice Stanislav Lem
September 13 Bill Monroe  Roald Dahl Tom Holt Tavis Smiley	September 14 Ivan Klima Hans Faverey Ekiwah Adler Beléndez Ayo (Joy Alasunmibo Ogunmakin)	September 15 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie François, duc de La Rochefoucauld Agatha Christie Dan Lungu Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (Elizabeth Charlotte Welskopf) Marie Arana

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September 16 Prasoon Joshi Clive Bell  Molly Shannon Paul Henning	September 17 Igor Štiks Hank Williams, Ken Kesey Hope Larson Francis Chichester	September 18 Samuel Johnson Christopher Lynn Hedges Agnes de Mille
September 19 Oksana Zabuzhko  Maud Sulter Damon Knight	September 20 Kazumasa Oda (小田和正 / Oda Kazumasa) Judith Thompson Upton Sinclair  Charlie Kaufman (Charles Stewart Kaufman)  Slappy White (Melvin White)	September 21 Ethan Coen Chuck Jones Frédéric Beigbeder Stephen King Leonard Cohen H.G. Wells Édouard Glissant
September 22 Rene O. Villanueva Ashokamitran (Jagadisa Thyagarajan) György Faludy Manzoor Ahmad Svilen Noev	September 23 Joshua Foer Euripedes Ana Marie Cox Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos) Ani DiFranco	September 24 Eavan Boland Brinck (Niels Brinck Kristensen) Nia Vardalos F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 25 Ian Tyson William Faulkner Shel Silverstein Lu Xun (魯迅) Andrzej Stasiuk	September 26 Raoul Cauvin Jane Smiley T.S. Eliot Zhang Tianyi (张天翼)	September 27 Romano Scarpa Josef Škvorecký Grazia Deledda
September 28 Confucius / 孔子 / Kǒng Zǐ Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) Prosper Mérimée Rosario Ferré	September 29 Gábor Csupó Steve Tesich Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	September 30 Francesco Tullio Altan Laura Esquivel Elie Wiesel Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

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Taslima Nasrin – August 25

Happy Birthday Taslima Nasrin!

Taslima Nasrin (born August 25, 1962) Bangladeshi novelist – Shame (Lajja)

Read about Taslima Nasrin here and here

Nasrin was born to a Muslim family in Bangladesh and studied gynaecology. She started writing at a young age, and her work criticises religion’s oppression of women, and speaks out for human rights.

In 1993, she published ‘Lajja’, which chronicles the trials a Hindu family faces while living in Bangladesh. The book speaks about how badly minorities are treated in Bangladesh, because of which the Bangaldeshi Government banned it in 1993.

Negative sentiment towards the author kept increasing and reached a crescendo in 1994, when Muslim fundamentalists demanded her execution. There were widespread protests against her views and fatwas issued against her. Nasrin was forced to go into hiding for two months, before finally fleeing the country. She has not gone back since.
(from “Taslima Nasrin’s Life in Exile” by Tara Khandelwal)

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Taslima Nasrin speaks at the India Ideas Conclave in 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohl_L0hxCbA