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De Russische dichter en schrijver Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky werd geboren op 20 juni 1932 in Kosikha in het district Altai Krai. Zie ook mijn blog van 20 juni 2007 en ook mijn blog van 20 juni 2009.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Small Man
On the ruthlessly
............little Earth there was
once a little man.
He had a little job
and a very little purse
with a little salary
And once
on a beautiful morning
there knocked on his little window
a little
it seemed
war
A little gun was given in his hands,
little boots were given on his feet,
a little helmet was given on him
with a little
by measure
cloak.
........And when he fell
................in an ugly, ungainly way
with his mouth frozen in the hurrah of the assault
on the whole world
............there was not enough marble
to carve him
life-size.
Robert Rozhdestvensky (20 juni 1932 19 augustus 1994)
De Zwitserse schrijfster Laure Wyss werd geboren op 20 juni 1913 in Biel/Bienne. Zie ook mijn blog van 20 juni 2009.
Uit: Briefe nach Feuerland
Zürich, heute und früher und später.
Liebe Freunde,
manchmal denke ich, Ihr lebt auf dem Mond, Ihr Fernen, Ausgewanderten. Ihr fragt mich nach Dingen, wie wenn Ihr nie in der Schweiz gelebt und oder aber vergessen hättet, was es hier an Harzigkeiten gibt, immer gegeben hat. Ihr seid zwar über Satelliten gut informiert, sozusagen global, aber das verfährt dazu, denke ich, zu rasch zu urteilen und zu verurteilen. Anderseits könnt Ihr nur entgegenhalten, ich sei selbst wegen der nächsten Nähe befangen, zu sehr in Schweizerisches verwickelt, als dass ich objektiv bleiben könnte.
Versuchen wir doch, beide Sichtweisen zusammenzubringen, etwa so:
Neulich sah ich die Farbfotos einer Gegend im Westlichen Frankreich, die ich gut kenne, aufgenommen von einem Satelliten aus einer Höhe von 836 Kilometern. Scharf, in verschiedenen Farbtönen, war das Wasser sichtbar, ein Meeresarm mit seinen Tiefen und Untiefen, die Küstenlinie war auszumachen und genau feststellbar das Land und wie es bebaut ist, wo Acker liegen, wo Rebhänge, welcher Baumbestand. Nur der Ort, wo ich oft wohne, war nicht zu erkennen. Ich liess mir sagen, dass es möglich sei, aus diesem scharfen Überblick Detailvergrösserungen herzustellen, wie wenn die Kamera auf eine Distanz von zehn Metern näherrückte. Auf einer solchen Aufnahme würde dann das Haus, das ich suchte, sichtbar, und vielleicht sähe...
Laure Wyss (20 juni 1913 21 augustus 2002)
De Amerikaanse schrijfster en vertaalster Lillian Hellman werd geboren op 20 juni 1905 in New Orleans. Zie ook mijn blog van 20 juni 2007 en ook mijn blog van 20 juni 2009.
Uit: The Art of Theater No. 1 (Interview door Anne Hollander en John Marquand)
INTERVIEWER
Before you wrote plays, did you write anything else?
LILLIAN HELLMAN
Yes, short stories, a few poems. A couple of the stories were printed in a long-dead magazine called The Paris Comet for which Arthur Kober worked. Arthur and I were married and living in Paris. Let's see, about 1928, 1929, somewhere in there. They were very lady-writer stories. I reread them a few years ago. The kind of stories where the man puts his fork down and the woman knows it's all over. You know.
INTERVIEWER
Was it Dashiell Hammett who encouraged you to write plays?
HELLMAN
No. He disliked the theater. He always wanted me to write a novel. I wrote a play before The Children's Hour with Louis Kronenberger called The Dear Queen. It was about a royal family. A royal family who wanted to be bourgeois. They kept running away to be middle class, and Dash used to say the play was no good because Louis would laugh only at his lines and I would laugh only at mine.
INTERVIEWER
Which of your plays do you like best?
HELLMAN
I don't like that question. You always like best the last thing you did. You like to think that you got better with time. But you know it isn't always true. I very seldom reread the plays. The few times I have, I have been pleasantly surprised by things that were better than I had remembered and horrified by other things I had thought were good. But I suppose Autumn Garden. I suppose I think it is the best play, if that is what you mean by like.
INTERVIEWER
Somebody who saw you watch the opening night in Paris of Simone Signoret's adaptation of The Little Foxes said that through the performance you kept leaving your seat and pacing the vestibule.
HELLMAN
I jump up and down through most performances. But that particular night I was shaken by what I was seeing. I like Little Foxes, but I'm tired of it. I don't think many writers like best their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.
Lillian Hellman (20 juni 1905 30 juni 1984)
De Engelse dichter en toneelschrijver Nicholas Rowe werd geboren in Little Barford, Bedfordshire, op 20 juni 1674. Zie ook mijn blog van 20 juni 2009.
Uit: Jane Shore, A Tragedy
Submissive, sad, and lowly was her look,
A burning taper in her hand she bore,
And on her shoulders, carelessly confus'd
With loose neglect, her lovely tresses hung,
Upon her cheeks a faintish flush was spread,
Feeble she seemed, and sorely smit with pain,
While barefoot as she trod the flinty pavement,
Her footsteps all along were mark'd with blood.
Yet silent still she pass'd, and unrepining,
Her streaming eyes bent over on the earth,
Except when, in some bitter pang of sorrow,
To Heaven she seem'd in fervent zeal to raise
And beg that mercy man denied her here.
Nicholas Rowe (20 juni 1674 - 6 december 1718)
Zie voor onderstaande schrijvers ook mijn blog van 20 juni 2009.
De Nederlandse schrijver Carel van Nievelt werd op 20 juni 1843 geboren in Delfshaven, als zoon van een boekhandelaar. Zie ook mijn blog van 20 juni 2007.
De Afrikaans-Amerikaanse schrijver en essayist Charles Waddell Chesnutt werd geboren op 20 juni 1858 in Cleveland, Ohio.
De Franse dichteres Marceline Desbordes-Valmore werd geboren op 20 juni 1786 in Douai. Zie ook mijn blog van 20 juni 2007 en ook mijn blog van 20 juni 2008.
De Franse dichter en schrijver Joseph Antoine Autran werd geboren op 20 juni 1813 in Marseille.
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