Interesting trivia about the Maigret author 1. Georges Simenon, creator of Maigret, is one of the most prolific novelists of all time. The Belgian author Georges Simenon (1903-1989) published over 200 novels under 17 different pseudonyms and a further 220 novels under his own name. He also produced three volumes of […]
The life and work of the poet and mystic Rumi, told in five pieces of trivia 1. Rumi is a bestselling poet. Rumi (1207-1273) is the bestselling poet among US Muslims. Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī was a Sufi mystic poet from Persia. The name by which he is usually known, […]
The life and work of the poet Thomas Chatterton, told through five bits of trivia 1. Chatterton was, in effect, the first English Romantic poet. Before William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Thomas Chatterton (1752-177o) was laying the groundwork for a revolution in English verse. Chatterton was perhaps […]
Fun facts about Daniel Defoe, one of Britain’s first novelists 1. He was born Daniel Foe. The French ‘De’ was a later affectation. Daniel Foe was born in around 1660, though the exact date is unknown. He lived through the Great Plague of 1665, an event he would later document […]
The best quotations from writers – about the art of the novel What should a novel be? Writers down the ages have often decreed that the novel should be one thing or another. Here are fifteen of the best quotes from writers about the novel as an art form, as […]