Greatest Writer of your Country

 

For Denmark:

The most famos must be:

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) -

His 200 birthday has been "celebrated" in the Danish medias for months now, so at the moment I get sick every time I hear his name. The 200 anniversary is simply to populistic for me.

 

Originally posted by Mosquito Originally posted by yan. 1+2 Franz Kafka 3 dunno 4 Isaak Babel Isaak Babel? bolshevik and murderer who was writting "konarmiya" stories ?

Have you read his 'Red cavalry' ?

Originally posted by Mosquito personally not, but i know what is it all about

I see. It's because he was a communist. You probably don't like Bulgakov either, then. 

 

I'd say it's a must-read. IMO much stronger than Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, message-wise. Even the cleansed version for distribution in communist countries.

Franz Kafka is Austrian AFAIK.

Originally posted by yan. You probably don't like Bulgakov either, then.

If you mean the one who was author of "Master and Margaret" i actually like him.

But Babel is a different story. He was in the army which invaded Poland. He was working for CheKa. And the book was more a propaganda than literature.

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Originally posted by Oguzoglu I dont understand why you people think Mevlana was Persian. He only used Persian language in most of his poems, but this doesnt make him a Persian.

& I don't Understand too why do you think He was Turk , If he was, Why he didn't use turkish Language, & why there is no turkish word in his poems &....

You know him turk because his shrine located at Ghonie

Molana was Aryan as me & all of his compatriot & whose that his book was elected as most favorite book in US few months ago

Originally posted by Komnenos So all you foreigners out there please tell me: 1.     Who is generally accepted to be the greatest         writer of your country and/or mother-tongue? 2.     Who is your personal favourite? 3.     Who is generally accepted to be your greatest         living writer? 4.     Who is your favourite writer outside your own         country and mother-tongue?

Short replies for modern Greece alone:

1. Literature: Kazantzakis, Empeirikos - Poetry: Seferis, Elytis, (nobel prices) Ritsos (Lenin price - yes Mosquito, he was a communist)  & Kavafis

2. Kazantzakis, Vassilikos, Tsirkas

3. Not sure, I don't read much of the moderns. Perhaps Nikos Dimou or Renos Apostolides.

4. Alber Camus, J.P. Sartr, J. Lacan, Oscar Wild, De Sant, James Joys, Douglas Adams (), Umberto Eco & Gogol. (and many more but I think these ones top the list)

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He was born in Balkh on the 30th september, 1207

Was Balkh in territory of turky??????

http://www.iranonline.com/literature/index-roumi.html
http://www.farhangsara.com/jalal_al.htm
http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/jrumi/molana_rumi.php
http://www.rumionfire.com/bio/index.htm
http://www.mevlana.net/
http://www.armory.com/~thrace/sufi/life.html

Some parts of Masnavi:
http://www.khamush.com/persian/
http://www.rumionfire.com/mathnavi/index.htm
& if He was turk, why did he forget his mother tongue & poem in Persian

 

~200 years ago England separate Afghanistan from Iran to defend India against France & Russia, Because Iran has close political relation with French.

Then There is no sign for you to entitle him as Turk, else you have hidden document that shows, all people of Balkh were 100% pure Turk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
DO YOU HAVE??????????

Originally posted by YAFES And as I said before, Persian language was dominant and was the Latin of the Middle East.

about language case: if he was Turk, why did he forget his mother tongue & poem in Persian???
Why there is NO Turkish word in 26000 bait(line) of Masnavi???
Did he hate his mother tongue???
& make poem in Persian, that needs to be master in Farsi to make sounds of poem

Originally posted by YAFES So Atat�rk was born in Selanik (Tsessalonika) which is in Greece, now.

Nice Sample, If you like this way, people of Greece has RIGHT to called Ataturk as Greek.
I remember Ataturk was who had forbidden Sema dance.

I think it's enough, Our discussion is going to the wrong way.
You have closed your eyes & you don't want to believe in Facts.

Har kasi ko dor mand az asle khish
        baz joiad rozegare vasle khish

first there is snorri sturluson who gathered all these storys of our history to
bring out the edda and snorra-edda. this manuscript from the 13.ct still exists in a museum in rejkjavik and last but not least haldor laxness who  get  the nobelprice of literature in 1955 .


         


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