The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers expands the range of writers included in the landmark South Carolina Encyclopedia. This guide updates the entries on writers featured in the original encyclopedia and augments that list substantially with dozens of new essays on additional authors from the late eighteenth century to the present who have contributed to the Palmetto State's distinctive literary heritage. Each profile in this concise reference includes essential biographical facts and critical assessments to place the featured writers in the larger context of South Carolina's literary tradition. The guide comprises 128 entries written by more than sixty-nine literary scholars, and it also highlights the sixty-nine writers inducted thus far into the South Carolina Academy of Authors, which serves as the state's literary hall of fame. Rich in natural beauty and historic complexity, South Carolina has long been a source of inspiration for writers. The talented novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, journalists, historians, and other writers featured here represent the countless individuals who have shared tales and lore of South Carolina. The guide includes a foreword by George Singleton, author of two novels, four short story collections and one nonfiction book, and a 2010 inductee of the South Carolina Academy of Authors.

Esta obra contiene la biografia del poeta Ruben Dario, Padre del Modernismo; un analisis de su obra realizada por el poeta chileno Francisco Contreras, profundo conocedor de la literatura europea en general y de la francesa en especial. Ademas, contiene la genealogia del linaje Diaz de Mayorga, familia a la que pertenecio Ruben Dario, y sus descendientes directos hasta hoy dia, acompanada con mas de 500 fotografias de su familia, amigos, poetas que influyeron en su vida y en su obra. Una iconografia de la revista Mundial de la que su director; varios ensayos sobre la obra de Dario, entre ellos del poeta chileno Gonzalo Rojas, Gabriela Mistral, Osvaldo Bazil, Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Maurice Bowra, Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Luis Cernuda, Ernesto Mejia Sanchez; la carta-prologo de Juan Valera; un extenso ensayo del intelectual y escritor Luis Alberto Cabrales, entre otros. Una breve cronologia de su vida y las publicaciones de sus obras; un poema del chileno Emilio Galan: Apologetica de Azul y una extensa bibliografia. Fotos ineditas de los descendientes de Dario y de la familia de su nuera argentina, casada con su hijo primogenito, Ruben Dario Contreras; genealogia de Rafaela Contreras Canas, esposa de Dario. En esta obra, el lector puede encontrar informacion fundamental de su vida, de su obra, de su familia y el discurso del sacerdote y poeta Azarias H. Pallais, pronunciado en las honras funebres de Dario, en la ciudad de Leon, Nicaragua.

Si c'est a la porte de l'eglise de Bagira que j'entrevis pour la premiere fois la haute stature de Valentin Bashige, c'est qu'il en etait un fidele assidu. Peu bavard, serieux dans son maintien, le visage presque austere, c'etait un chretien convaincu, reconnu et respecte comme tel. Apres une longue carriere militaire, il exercait alors avec sagesse la charge de juge de paix au tribunal coutumier. Cette longue carriere dans ce qu'on appelait alors la "Force Publique" l'avait fait beaucoup voyager, d'un bout a l'autre du Congo, au Rwanda, au Burundi et, meme, durant la guerre, sous commandement belge, jusqu'en Abyssinie, l'actuelle Ethiopie. Il en parlait peu, mais de ces experiences parfois douloureuses, du cotoiement de populations differentes, venait sans doute ce regard profond et reflechi qu'il portait sur les gens et sur le monde.

This volume of Who Was Who contains entries for people in Who's Who who died between 1941 and 1950. It has over 10,000 entries covering deaths during the Second World War, and including biographies for Virginia Wolf, Adolf Hitler, General George Patton, George Orwell, Mohandas Gandhi and H. G. Wells. This 6th edition has been fully updated, with the addition of newly available dates of death from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and other online resources.