2 Презентация в помощь Методическим Объединениям для организации внеурочной деятельности по иностранным языкам Тема Литература Юбилеи 2025 года February. Подготовила учитель МБОУ «ЯСШ № 6» Л.Н.Керимова

The 1 st of February, 1950 75 years Kate Braverman was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet

author of “Lithium for Medea”, “Palm Latitudes”, and “Yellow Fever”

The 2 nd of February, 1905 130 years Ayn Rand / aɪn /   EYEN was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum)

author of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged”

The 2 nd of February, 1945 80 years Josephine Humphreys is an American novelist

and “Nowhere Else on Earth”

author of “Dreams of Sleep”, “Rich in Love”, film, “The Fireman’s Fair”;

The 2 nd of February, 1970 55 years Santa Montefiore is a British author

author of “The French Gardener” and “Secrets of the Lighthouse”

The 3 rd of February, 1980 45 years Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker

author of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”

The 4 th of February, 1900 125 years Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter

author of “How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird”. His poems are popular in the French-speaking world

and his films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include “Les Enfants du Paradis”.

The 4 th of February, 1925 100 years Russell Hoban was an American expatriate writer

author of “Bedtime for Frances”

The 4 th of February, 1960 65 years Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist

author of “A Swift Pure Cry” and “Bog Child”

The 5 th of February, 1905 120 years Herman Charles Bosman was a South African writer

and Mafeking Road: and Other Stories

author of the memoir, Cold Stone Jug,

The 5 th of February, 1915 110 years Margaret Millar was an American-Canadian mystery and suspense writer

and

Beast in View

author of An Air That Kills

The 6 th of February, 1945 75 years Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician

Marley’s music is considered to have given voice to political and cultural issues in Jamaica .

His songs include I Shot the Sheriff , No Woman, No Cry , Could You Be Loved , Redemption Song , One Love , Buffalo Soldier

The 7 th of February, 1950 75 years Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction

author of a science fiction collection called Artificial Things . Her work mostly centres on the lives of women. She is best known as the author of The Jane Austen Book Club , which was made into a movie of the same name, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves , which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

The 7 th of February, 1950 75 years Patrick McGrath is a British novelist whose work has been categorised as Gothic fiction

He is the author of Asylum and Spider

The 7 th of February, 1885 140 years Sinclair Lewis was the first American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

author of Main Street , Arrowsmith , and Elmer Gantry

A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

The 8 th of February, 1955 70 years John Grisham is an American lawyer, politician, and author, best known for his legal thrillers

author of A Time to Kill in 1989, The Chamber , The Client , A Painted House , The Pelican Brief , Skipping Christmas , The Rainmaker , The Runaway Jury Must-read: John Grisham’s 8 Do’s And Don’ts For Popular Fiction

The 9 th of February, 1940 85 years J.M. Coetzee is a South-African novelist, essayist, and linguist. He won the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

He is best known for his novel, Disgrace

The 10 th of February, 1930 95 years E. L. Konigsburg was an American writer and illustrator of children’s books and young adult fiction

author of Jennifer , Hecate , Macbeth , William McKinley and Me , Elizabeth , From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs Basil E. , The View from Saturday

The 14 th of February, 1955 70 years Claire Cook is an American author

author of Must Love Dogs , Seven Year Switch , and Never Too Late

The 14 th of February, 1930 95 years Harry Mathews was an American writer, the author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. Mathews was also a translator of the French language.

Notable works

The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium and Other Novels

The Conversions

Tlooth

The 14 th of February, 1965 60 years Lucinda Riley was an Irish author of popular historical fiction and a former actress

author of a seven-novel series called The Seven Sisters

The 15 th of February, 1945 80 years Douglas Hofstadter is an American professor of cognitive science

author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

I Am a Strange Loop

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

The 17 th of February, 1955 70 years Mo Yan , whose real name is Guan Moye, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

author of “Red Sorghum”

The 17 th of February, 1930 95 years Ruth Rendel , who also wrote under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, was an English crime writer of more than 60 novels.

She created the Inspector Wex ford novels, begin ning with From Doon with Death .

The 18 th of February, 1950 75 years Bebe Moore Campbell was an American author, essayist, journalist, and teacher.

explored race relations and mental illness…

author of

Brothers and Sisters ,

Singing in the Comeback Choir , and What You Owe Me , memoir Sweet Summer

The 18 th of February, 1955 70 years Lisa See is an American writer and novelist

author of Flower Net , Dragon Bones , Peony in Love , and Shanghai Girls

The 18 th of February, 1940 85 years Prue Leith is a South African restaurateur, television presenter, cookery writer, and novelist

author of Relish : My Life on a Plate, The Food of Love, and Leaving Patrick

The 19 th of February, 1955 70 years Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist and essayist

She has written a book of poetry, five novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include What I Loved and The Summer Without Men.

The 21 st of February, 1950 75 years Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author

author of the Inspector Van Veeteren series (beginning with Mind’s Eye) and the Inspector Barbarotti series

The 22 nd of February, 1820 205 years Christian Nestell Bovee was an epigrammatic American writer

author of Intuitions and Summaries of Thought and Thoughts, Feelings and Fancies

The 22 nd of February, 1925 100 years Edward Gorey was an American writer and artist

author of Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

2 Презентация в помощь Методическим Объединениям для организации внеурочной деятельности по иностранным языкам Тема Литература Юбилеи 2025 года February Подготовила учитель МБОУ «ЯСШ № 6» Л.Н.Керимова