August LitBirthdays

LitBirthdays in August

August 1 Chuck D (Carlton Ridenhour) Francis Scott Key Herman Melville	August 2 Isabel Allende James Baldwin Homer Banks Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai)	August 3 Lauren Liebenberg Leon Uris
August 4 Robert Hayden Helen Thomas Barack Obama	August 5 Guy de Maupassant Abbé Pierre (Henri Marie Joseph Grouès)	August 6 Louella Parsons Alfred Tennyson M. Night Shyamalan
August 7 Justin Kawika Young Sofia Rotaru Garrison Keillor	August 8 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Mel Tillis	August 9 Izaak Walton Jean Piaget
August 10 Abay Ibrahim Qunanbayuli	August 11 Jim Lee Alex Haley	August 12 George Soros Sue Monk Kidd
August 13 Amélie Nothomb Dan Fogelberg Kamila Shamsie	August 14 Bryce Courtenay Steve Martin Danielle Steel Gary Larson	August 15 Julia Child Sri Aurobindo Mikao Usui
August 16 Charles Bukowski Diana Wynne Jones	August 17 Herta Müller Gene (Geneva) Stratton-Porter	August 18 Mika Elsa Morante Brian Aldiss
August 19 Eamonn Fingleton Ogden Nash Jerzy Andrzejewski	August 20 Isaac Hayes Musa Geshaev H. P.(Howard Phillips) Lovecraft	August 21 Jules Michelet Friz Freleng
August 22 Irmtraud Morgner	August 23 Ephraim Kishon Nazik al-Mala’ika	August 24 Jorge Luis Borges Stephen Fry Ali Smith
August 25 Charles Wright Ali Smith	August 26 Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) Kamila Shamsie	August 27 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
August 28 Tasha Tudor Ai Weiwei	August 29 Dorothy Tennov René Depestre	August 30 Camilla Läckberg Eriksson Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
August 31 DuBose Heyward William Saroyan

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LitBirthdays Hans Rosling

Happy Birthday Hans Rosling!

Hans Rosling (born July 27, 1948) – Swedish physician and statistician

Read about Hans Rosling here and here

July LitBirthdays

July

July 1 Twyla Tharp Irna Phillips Juan Carlos Onetti	July 2 Wisława Szymborska Evelyn Lau Wibo (“Wim” Willem Louis Joseph Boost)	July 3 Alan Schwarz Julian Assange Kid Sister Franz Kafka
July 4 Guram Rcheulishvili Colin Welland Neil Simon Mao Dun Nathaniel Hawthorne Ann Landers	July 5 Armin Kõomägi Jody Lynn Nye Bill Watterson Veronica Guerin	July 6 Andrew Martin The Dalai Lama Louisa Tuthill
July 7 Lesego Rampolokeng David McCullough Helene Johnson Lillien Jane Martin	July 8 Tom Egeland Anna Quindlen Freeway (Leslie Edward Pridgen)	July 9 Patrice Barbara Cartland Masami Tsuda Anne Born
July 10 Mildred Wirt Benson Arja Uusitalo Alice Munro	July 11 Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (白先勇; pinyin: Bái Xiānyǒng,) Suzanne Nadine Vega Amitav Ghosh	July 12 Oscar Hammerstein II Pablo Neruda
July 13 Helga Königsdorf Cameron Crowe Wole Soyinka	July 14 Natalia Ginzburg Isaac Bashevis Singer Angélique Kidjo Laura Numeroff	July 15 Jacques Rivière Dorothy Fields Iris Murdoch
July 16 Mari Evans Ross King Saint Clare of Assisi	July 17 Erle Stanley Gardner Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון) Michael Francis Gilbert	July 18 Yevgeny Yevtushenko Alfian Sa’at Elizabeth Gilbert Nelson Mandela
July 19 Norman Manea Garth Nix A.J. (Archibald Joseph) Cronin Vladimir Mayakovsky	July 20 Simin Beh’bahāni (Persian: سیمین بهبهانی) Imam Bukhari (Muhammed Al-Bukhari) Olga Hahn-Neurath (Elizabeth) Dilys Powell Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)	July 21 Mohammed Dib Ernest Miller Hemingway Suso Cecchi d’Amico
July 22 Ala Ghawas Kokia (Akiko Yoshida 吉田亜紀子) Emma Lazarus Albert Brooks Enrique Laso	July 23 Milisav Popović Raymond Chandler Eugène François Vidocq	July 24 Alexandre Dumas Patrick Bruce (Pat) Oliphant Colleen Doran Banana Yoshimoto
July 25 Maria Gripe Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh, AKA Gordon Daviot) Diam’s (Mélanie Georgiades)	July 26 George Bernard Shaw Aldous Huxley Carl G. Jung	July 27 Hilde Domin Elizabeth Hardwick Bobbie Gentry
July 28 Helen Beatrix Potter Francis Veber	July 29 Chester Himes Nathalie Handal Ruud Janssen	July 30 Barbara Kopple Salvador Novo Emily Jane Brontë
July 31 Pam Withers J. K. Rowling

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June 15 – Kobayashi Issa

Happy Birthday Kobayashi Issa!

Kobayashi Issa by Hashimoto Heihachi

Kobayashi Issa – born June 15, 1763 – Japanese Haiku poet

Read about Kobayashi Issa here and here

Read the Gwanlingo blog post about Kobayashi Issa:

Issa is considered one of four great masters of Haiku. This seventeen syllable poetic form is known for its ability to squeeze astonishing beauty and depth of feeling out of plain language and direct observation. Issa’s poems are remarkable for their “pathos and humor,” especially in light of the string of tragedies that marked each stage of his life.

Read some of Kobayashi Issa’s poems here.

春風や　牛にひかれて　善光寺

The spring breeze.

Being pulled by a cow

To the Zenkoji temple.

[From the Japanese traditional legend. An old woman who had no faith found herself in Zenkoji while chasing the cow that hung the dried cloth on the horn. As a result, she began to believe Buddhism deeply.]

June 14 Judith Kerr

Happy Birthday Judith Kerr!

Judith Kerr – Born June 14, 1923 – U.K. writer and illustrator – The Tiger Who Came to Tea (1968)

Read about Judith Kerr here and here

The backstory of The Tiger Who Came to Tea

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25027090

Judith Kerr visits her childhood home in Germany
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tqJtWNwnRI0

June LitBirthdays

June

June 1 Casper de Vries Marie Knight Naguib Surur Mircea Cărtărescu	June 2 Xiao Hong Dorothy West	June 3 Rumer (Sarah Joyce) Pedro Mir (Irwin) Allen Ginsberg
June 4 Jacques Roumain Margrit Schriber Jin Au-Yeung	June 5 Elena Piscopia Pu Songling Federico Garcia Lorca	June 6 Vlado Georgiev Isaiah Berlin Alexander (or Aleksandr) (Sergeyevich) Pushkin
June 7 Louise Erdrich (Karen Louise Erdrich) Gwendolyn Brooks Nikki Giovanni Orhan Pamuk	June 8 Karin Alvtegen Tim Berners-Lee Sara Paretsky	June 9 André Juillard George Axelrod Cole Porter
June 10 Maurice Sendak Benjamin Millepied Samartha Vashishtha Saul Bellow Terence Rattigan	June 11 Bill Findlay Siavash Ghomayshi Yasunari Kawabata	June 12 Tess Gerritsen Anne Frank
June 13 Anis Mojgani Dorothy Leigh Sayers William Butler Yeats	June 14 Ernesto Che Guevara Margaret Bourke-White Mona Simpson	June 15 Ibn-e-Insha (ابن انشاء) Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson) Waylon Jennings

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June 16 Lamont Dozier Joyce Carol Oates	June 17 Jeph Jacques Nino (Kazunari Ninomiya)	June 18 Lidia Jorge Sammy Cahn Paul McCartney
June 19 Aung San Suu Kyi Pauline Kael Salman Rushdie	June 20 Enn Vetemaa Amos Tutuola Anna Laetitia Barbauld	June 21 John Agard Benazir Bhutto Jean-Paul Sartre Mary McCarthy
June 22 Moana Maniapoto Abbas Kiarostami Persian: عباس کیارستمی Kaarina Helakisa Sándor Weöres Dan Brown	June 23 Steven Dietz Anna Akhmatova Alfred Kinsey Patrick Monahan	June 24 Julia Kristeva Anita Desai Saint John of the Cross Mercedes Lackey
June 25 Ricky Gervais George Orwell Anthony Bourdain Yann Martel	June 26 Ya’akov Cohen (also spelled Cahan) (Hebrew: יעקב כהן) Yves Beauchemin Noriaki Kubo (The Kubo)	June 27 Paul L. Dunbar Bob Keeshan Helen Keller
June 28 Mariko Nanba (南波真理子) Aimee Bender Jean-Jacques Rousseau Sophie Hannah	June 29 Nawal Al Zoghbi Frédéric Dard Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure)	June 30 José Emilio Pacheco David Frum James Goldman

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LitBirthdays Jakucho Setouchi

Happy Birthday Jakucho Setouchi!

Jakucho Setouchi (born May 15, 1922) Buddhist nun, writer, activist

Read about Jakucho Setouchi here and here

Setouchi translated The Tales of Genji from classical Japanese to modern Japanese.