See if you can identify some of the writers
(some of these images have been posted before)
Various items relate to seven Nobel Prize Winners (and to others who were shortlisted), two to Poet Laureates, one to a winner of the Lenin Peace Prize, one to a winner of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and one to a winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
I haven't counted these writers' other awards, honours and prizes, such as the Booker Prize.
Which is which?
(some of these images have been posted before)
Various items relate to seven Nobel Prize Winners (and to others who were shortlisted), two to Poet Laureates, one to a winner of the Lenin Peace Prize, one to a winner of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and one to a winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
I haven't counted these writers' other awards, honours and prizes, such as the Booker Prize.
Which is which?
Focus on British Literature, Gothenburg Book Fair
Alan Sillitoe in Thessaloniki
Ruth Fainlight
Sample Thessaloniki programme
George Savidis
P D James, Thessaloniki
Ian Rankin, Stockholm
Ruth Fainlight
Sample Thessaloniki programme
George Savidis
P D James, Thessaloniki
Ian Rankin, Stockholm
My son's book
Barrie Humphries (rt); Maria Strani-Potts (left), Sydney, Australia
Dr Dannie Abse (rt), Stockholm
Poetry Reading, Mediterranean Museum, Stockholm
Poetry reading and blues at Izzy Young's Folklore Centre, Stockholm
N. Vrettakos (left), D.Doukaris shaking hands with Jim, Athens
President Vaclav Havel (rt)
Prague Poetry Reading, October 24, 1989
Jiri Menzel
Jan Vodnansky
Zdenek Hron (above)
Vladimir Merta
Daniela Mrazkova and Vladimir Remes
Ewald Osers
Ian Milner
Peter Calvocoressi
Peter Calvocoressi, C.M. Woodhouse, Greek historians, friends and family, Northern Greece
Richard Clogg
Lord Michael Pratt
Jan Vodnansky
Zdenek Hron (above)
Vladimir Merta
Daniela Mrazkova and Vladimir Remes
Ewald Osers
Ian Milner
Peter Calvocoressi
Peter Calvocoressi, C.M. Woodhouse, Greek historians, friends and family, Northern Greece
Richard Clogg
Lord Michael Pratt
Themistocles Marinos (left). War hero (Distinguished Service) and author
Yannis Ritsos, rt, Thessaloniki
Yusef Komunyakaa (left), Komninos (rt), Judges,
Poetry Olympics, Sydney Opera House
Tony Harrison, seated, Delphi
Adrian Mitchell
David Malouf, Sydney Book Launch
Fotini Epanomitis
John Fowles
Yannis Ritsos
Seamus Heaney
Alan's reading copy, Mountains and Caverns
With Margarita Mellberg and Kjell Espmark, Stockholm
Baltic Writers' Centre, Visby Gotland
Anne Sward, Risto Oikarinen,, Ingrid Storholmen and friends
Lena Pasternak
Anne Sward
Visby, Baltic Writers' Centre:
Anne Sward, Maria Strani-Potts, Risto Oikarinen, Ingrid Storholmen and Gunstein Bakke
Lijana Dejak, Visby
Jan Henrik Swahn and Margarita Mellberg, Monodendri, Epirus
Ingrid Storholmen and Jan Henrik Swahn at Miramura, Gotland
Ionian Inspires, with Louis de Bernieres and Dr Lee Durrell, Groucho Club, London
Louisa Adjoa Parker
Ingmar Bergman and Harriet Anderrson, Faro
Baltic Writers' Centre, Visby Gotland
Anne Sward, Risto Oikarinen,, Ingrid Storholmen and friends
Lena Pasternak
Anne Sward
Visby, Baltic Writers' Centre:
Anne Sward, Maria Strani-Potts, Risto Oikarinen, Ingrid Storholmen and Gunstein Bakke
Lijana Dejak, Visby
Jan Henrik Swahn and Margarita Mellberg, Monodendri, Epirus
Ingrid Storholmen and Jan Henrik Swahn at Miramura, Gotland
Ionian Inspires, with Louis de Bernieres and Dr Lee Durrell, Groucho Club, London
Louisa Adjoa Parker
Ingmar Bergman and Harriet Anderrson, Faro
Carol Ann Duffy
Martin Hilsky and Michael Foot,
Lecture on Byron, Charles University, Prague
Above, Michael Foot, Prague
Willie Russell (centre) in Thessaloniki
Maria Strani-Potts (left), Professor Jina Politi (right)
Nikos Kokantzis (far right), Sir John and Lady Burgh (left), Thessaloniki
Dimitis Koulourianos, Minister of Economic Affairs, 1982-1983
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty, translated Zdenek Hron,
from my lecture (Prague, 8 June, 1989), to mark the Centenary of the Death of G.M. Hopkins
George Seferis
Odysseas Elytis
From Literary Links, Roslyn Russell, Allen and Unwin
Linda Christmas
Arcadia Books
Michael Holroyd and Margaret Drabble,
My 'Gothenburg Swedish Farewell, 2004
Johanna Ekstrom
Dinner with Jamie Oliver, Stockholm
Ruth Padel
Paul Oliver
Alexandros Myriallis, Greek poet from Ethiopia.
From article on Arthur Rimbaud in Harrar.
The big one!
Julian Barnes (rt), Adelaide
Someone I never met, but whom I feel I know, a little.
Gerald and Lawrence Durrell, a posthumous meeting
Penelope, Lawrence Durrell's daughter, with Maria
Strani-Potts
Sydney, 16 March 1984
Niki Marangou, Cypriot poet and artist
Alois Bejblik
Michael Zantovsky
Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole in Czech, translated by Helena Cisarova
Poem tr. Sakis Serefas, Endefktirio, March 2004
SEE ALSO, The Ethiopian Anthology
The latest anthology project:
My latest book, update, September 2019:
Maria's short stories:
From Literary Links, Roslyn Russell, Allen and Unwin
Linda Christmas
Arcadia Books
Michael Holroyd and Margaret Drabble,
My 'Gothenburg Swedish Farewell, 2004
Johanna Ekstrom
Six Poems, Translations into Swedish, Lyrikvannen, No 4, 2004, by Boel Schenlaer:
Dinner with Jamie Oliver, Stockholm
Ruth Fainlight
Samuel Charters (The Country Blues, below)
Paul Oliver
Alexandros Myriallis, Greek poet from Ethiopia.
From article on Arthur Rimbaud in Harrar.
The big one!
Julian Barnes (rt), Adelaide
Someone I never met, but whom I feel I know, a little.
Gerald and Lawrence Durrell, a posthumous meeting
Penelope, Lawrence Durrell's daughter, with Maria
Strani-Potts
Sydney, 16 March 1984
Niki Marangou, Cypriot poet and artist
Pavel Srut
Jaroslav Koran
Ivo Smoldas
Michael Zantovsky
Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole in Czech, translated by Helena Cisarova
Poem tr. Sakis Serefas, Endefktirio, March 2004
SEE ALSO, The Ethiopian Anthology
The latest anthology project:
My latest book, update, September 2019:
Maria's short stories:
wonderful cavalcade of writers, nostalgic, even. david lodge n malcolm were both secker authors and i worked on changing places and others and malcolm's rates of exchange - brilliant linguistic play.
ReplyDeletevery very impressive! C
Thanks! It's that time of the year (and age?) when one starts to sort things out, to put books, old papers and photographs in some order, so I've been scanning a lot...the garage is full of files and boxes of papers, and the photo albums seldom get opened, so it makes sense to scan the more interesting or amusing old photos.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful life!
ReplyDeleteIt's had its moments, when recollected in tranquility!
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