Katar (novel) - Katar (novel) Katar is a novel by Stanislaw Lem, published in 1975. It brings up topics like the international terrorism and chemical warfare. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers! A former astronaut is hired by a detective agency to help in an investigation of a case of mysterious deaths. Several victims became mad and committed suicide during their vacation in Napoli, apparently without reason. During the investigation, it becomes apparent that certain innocent factors can be combined into a strong depressor, a kind of chemical weapon. The hero experiences its effects, however his training helps him to survive and solve the case..
Jasmine (novel) - Jasmine (novel) Jasmine (1989) is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee set in the present about a young Indian woman in the United States who, trying to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able to survive, changes identities several times. Warning: Spoilers immediately to follow Jasmine's arranged marriage to a young Indian back in their home town ends abruptly when he is killed in a bombing. Still in her teens but already a widow, Jasmine flees India and, after an odyssey, arrives in Florida on a small boat and enters the United States as an illegal immigrant. During her first night in America, which she spends huddled together with some other illegal aliens in a disused motel, she kills the captain of the.
Vernor Vinge - fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep, and for his 1993 essay "The Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. Vinge published his first short story, "Bookworm, Run!", in 1965 in Analog Science Fiction, then edited by John W. Campbell. He was then a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s, including adapting two of his stories into a short novel, Grimm's World (1969), and publishing a second novel, The Witling (1975). Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella "True Names", which is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would.
Kalimantaan - Kalimantaan Kalimantaan is the title of a novel by C. S. Godshalk offering a fictionalized account of the exploits of James Brooke in Sarawak. Warning: Wikipedia_contains_spoilers Ms. Godshalk does a wonderful job of evoking the mysterious and sometimes oppressive atmosphere of tropical river jungless and the dreamlike, almost feverish quality that life can take on in the tropics. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish what "really" happens in the story from dreams and fantasies of the characters. She makes use of a variety of writing forms, including diary entries, letters, and straight narrative to tell a fascinating story. In 1839, an English adventurer arrived on the northwest coast of Borneo, commissioned to deliver a letter of gratitude to the Sultan of Brunei for having safely returned the crew of.
Kalimantan - the Madurese immigrants, who were moved here in a government "transmigration" programme that operated, in various forms, from 1905 until 2001. The Dayak fighters are known for their ferocious tactics, such as the beheading and mutilation of their victims. See also Kalimantaan, a novel by C. S. Godshalk, which is set in Borneo..
Karel Reisz - Boys was a naturalistic depiction of the members of a South London boys' club, which was unusual in showing the life of working-class teenagers as it was, with skiffle music and cigarettes intact. His first feature film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) was based on a social realist novel by Alan Sillitoe, and used many of the same techniques as his earlier documentaries. In particular, scenes filmed at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham have the now familiar look of a documentary, and give the story a vivid sense of verisimillitude. He produced This Sporting Life (1963), and directed Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (1966), Isadora (1968), The Gambler (1974), Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sweet Dreams (1985), and Everybody Wins (1990) among others, and.
Kalevi Sorsa - of Finnish politics Kalevi Sorsa worked as publishing editor, with his greatest "claim to fame" being to turn down the first novel of Kalle Päätalo, which turned out to be one of the greatest Finnish bestsellers of all time. Sorsa was brought in from this relative obscurity by Rafael Paasio to assume the influential post of party secretary without much previous experience of politics. One of the most strongwilled but also thinskinned public figures, Sorsa had numerous bitter relations with other politicians and the whole of the media, which he lambasted by coining a pejorative epithet "infokratia". The fact that he never attained the Finnish presidency, nor even candidacy for the post, was a cause of lasting bitterness, and his memoirs were not lacking in barbs towards his predecessors, contemporaries and.
Kathryn Hulme - 1981). Author of The Nun's Story (1956) the best selling novel later made into an award winning movie starring Audrey Hepburn (1959) and The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure (Little, Brown & Co. Boston USA/Toronto CA, 1967) reprinted (Natural Bridge Editions: Lexington MA, 1997) (ISBN 1891218034) a description of her years as a student of G. I. Gurdjieff. External Link The Kathryn Hulme Papers at Yale University.
Kathleen Winsor - 2003) was an American author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber. Winsor herself is quoted as saying, "I wrote only two sexy passages, and my publishers took both of them out. They put ellipses instead. In those days, you could solve everything with an ellipse." She was widely condemned for writing pornography, but the work made her famous, and she eventually sold it to be made into a motion picture. None of her work was nearly as successful, although she is also known for such works as Star Money, The Lovers, Calais, Robert and ARabella, Jacintha, and Wanderers Eastward, Wanderes West..
Kalle Päätalo - by being wounded. After the wars, he moved to Tampere where he studied at technical school, becoming a building contractor, and wrote short stories that were published in various magazines. He was married twice and had two daughters by the second marriage. Päätalo debuted as a novelist in 1958 with a novel set at a building site in Tampere. In his second novel Our Daily Bread, the first book in the five-volume Koillismaa series, he turned to his native region. By this time, Päätalo was able to turn a freelance writer, and from 1962 until his death he published one book each year. In 1971 he published what was to be the first volume in the 26-volume series Juuret Iijoen törmässä ('Roots in the Bank of River Ii'), probably the longest.
Katherine Paterson - graduate school in Virginia. She received a Master's degree and worked as a missionary in Japan. She married her husband, John, in 1962. They have four children. Her first novel was written while taking an adult education course in creative writing. Her awards include the National Book Award (Master Puppeteer, 1977 and The Great Gilly Hopkins, 1979), the Newbery Medal (Bridge to Terabithia 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved, 1981), the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction (Jip, His Story), and the Hans Christian Anderson Medal (body of work, 1998). Katherine Paterson believes children’s books should deal with contemporary, realistic themes. Some of her books feature difficult themes such as death of a loved one, the stresses of foster care, exploitation of workers, and slavery. Katherine Paterson lives in Vermont. Juvenile.
Kawabata Yasunari - a neo-Impressionist journal. Kawabata committed suicide in 1972. Kawabata debuted with Izu no Odoriko ("The Dancer of Izu") in 1927. In 1937 appeared his novel Yukiguni ("Snow Country"), a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo playboy and a provincial geisha in a remote hot springs town. Yukiguni established Kawabata as one of Japan's foremost authors and became an instant classic. Senbazuru ("Thousand Cranes") continued some of the themes of Yukiguni. List of Works Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, 1937) Senbazuru ("Thousand Cranes", 1949-52) The Sound of the Mountain (山の韵, Yama no oto, 1949-54) The Old Capital (Koto, 1962) Beauty and Sadness (美しさと悲しみと, Utsukushisa to kanashimi to, 1965) The Master of Go (名人, Meijin, 1972).
Karl Gutzkow - and Schleiermacher. Gutzkow started out as a collaborator of Wolfgang Menzel, but ended up his adversary. His innovative novel "Wally die Zweiflerin" was used as a pretext in order to ban the works of many other progressive writers, among them Heinrich Heine. Gutzkow was the editor of the "Telegraph für Deutschland" and was Germany's most influential critic. The novels "Die Ritter vom Geist" (1850/51) and "Der Zauberer von Rom" (1856/61) were very succesful; Gutzkow used his new Simultantechnik in them. Gutzkow was never a revolutionary, and he became more conservative with age. Gutzkow was one of the first Germans who tried to make a living by writing. With his play "Uriel Acosta" he stood up for the emancipation of the Jews, which he also did in other works..
Kawakami Hiromi - a Japanese writer.Her first novel God was published in 1994.She won Akutagawa prize in 1996.She is One of the writers who attract attention most now..
Katherine Heigl - several movies. “100 Girls”, an independent film released in 2001. Katherine’s cameo role is that of Arlene, the Competitive Tomboy. The second film, “Valentine,” a horror film starring David Boreanaz and Denise Richards. Katherine plays Shelley, a medical student who meets a sudden demise. In the spring of 2001, Katherine accepted a role in “Ground Zero,” a two-hour, original television thriller scheduled to be telecast that fall on NBC. Katherine and Kerr Smith (“Dawson's Creek”) co-starred as brilliant and politically concerned college students, who build a nuclear device to illustrate the need for a change in national priorities, but are betrayed by a fellow student when the bomb ends up in the hands of a terrorist. Unfortunately, the telefilm, directed by Eric Laneuville, written by Tom Vaughan, and based on the.
KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff - resulted in an increased loss of life, as many of the refugees ignored orders to allow women and children to disembark first, instead trampling each other in a mad rush for access to the few lifeboats and life jackets available. Some equipment was lost as a further result of the panic. It is estimated that of the approximately 5000 to 7000 refugees and over 1000 soldiers and sailors on board at the time, only 1239 passengers survived, saved by German vessels in the vicinity. Some modern studies of the disaster place the death toll at over 9000. The Discovery Channel program "Unsolved History" has undertaken an extensive computer analysis of the sinking of the Gustloff which was broadcast on January 4, 2004. This study concluded the death toll was in excess.
Ken Kesey - Menlo Park Veterans Hospital on the effects of psychoactive drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and amphetamine IT-290. He wrote many detailed descriptions of his experience with these drugs, both during the study and in his own experimentation. It was at this time he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which caught the attention of many, including "beat" poet Neal Cassady, who had accompanied Jack Kerouac on the trip described in Kerouac's On the Road. With the commercial success of his first novel in 1962, Kesey moved to La Honda, in the mountains outside of San Francisco. He frequently entertained friends with parties he called "Acid Tests" involving music (such as Kesey's favorite band, The Warlocks, later known as the Grateful Dead), black lights, fluorescent paint, strobes, and other "psychedelic".
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Keep the Aspidistra Flying (first published 1936) is a novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London and the surrounding countryside. The protagonist is an aspiring poet whose singular obsession in life is not to sell out. An aspidistra is a spiny houseplant that at the time was widely considered a symbol of dull middle-class British taste. It is portrayed as indestructible in the novel. Keep the Aspidistra Flying was filmed in 1997 by Robert Bierman based on a screenplay by Alan Plater and starring Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter..
Ken Follett - After university, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Cardiff and then London, where he began writing. In 1978, his novel Eye of the Needle became a bestseller. This would be followed by numerous international bestsellers. Bibliography Eye of the Needle The Modigliani Scandal Triple Lie Down with Lions The Man from St Petersburg The Key to Rebecca On Wings of Eagles Pillars of the Earth Night Over Water A Dangerous Fortune A Place Called Freedom The Third Twin The Hammer of Eden Jackdaws Code to Zero Hornet Flight.
Vertigo (movie) - thinks. It stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones and Raymond Bailey. The movie was adapted by Samuel A. Taylor and Alec Coppel from the novel d'Entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The final script was entirely written by Samuel Taylor from notes by Hitchcock. However, a number of elements survive from an earlier script by Alec Coppel, including the opening rooftop sequence, the Cypress Point kiss, the two visits to San Juan Batista, and the famous nightmare sequence. When Taylor attempted to take sole credit for the screenplay, Coppel protested to the Writers Guild, who determined that both writers were entitled to credit. Vertigo was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color and Best Sound. The film.
