World Author Research Accelerated English 10

You are to find the following information for three (3) authors from around the world. You are to choose
authors from at least two different continents. You must have at least one author from before 1900 and at
least one author from after 1900. You will submit three written reports; you will present your make a short
(1-2 minutes) report on the highlighted author orally in class (1-2 minutes). Your report should be short and
should be presented in the following format:
Name
Author’s Geographic Origin Background/ Brief Biography (no more than 4-6
Dates of the author’s life some major work sentences)
Sample Titles (Include what is most widely read) Influences on Author
Genre(s) Author’s influence on others
Recurring Themes or General Subject Matter Why would someone want to read this author?

You are required to research the highlighted author. You may choose the other two authors; your other
authors do not have to be from this list. (This list is NOT complete, and may have errors.) Author’s with a
☠ may be VERY (VERY) hard to find information on.
Africa
Eygpt: Naquib MahfouzΩ Liberia: Albert Camus Nigeria: Chinua Achebe☜; Wole
Soyinka Sierra Leone: Abioseh Nicol Senegal: Leopold Sedar Senghor;
South Africa: Mark Mathabane; Alan Paton;
Asia
China: Cao Xueqin☠; Li Po; Confucius; Lao-tzu; Ssu-ma Chien☠; Zhang Jie☠
India: R. K. Narayan; Rudyard Kipling(British); Santha Rama Rau
Japan: Murasaki Shikibu; Basho☜; Sei Shonagon; Seami Motokiyo☠; Akutagawa Ryunosuk☠
Korea: Hwang Sun-won Persia: Omar Kayyam; Rumi Vietnam: Nguyen Thi Vinh☠
Europe
Greece: Homer; Aristophones; Sophocles; Thucydides; Plato; Ovid; Sappho ☜
Rome: Virgil; CatullusΩ; Horace
Medival -Renaissance: Chretien de Troyes; Dante Alighieri; Geoffrey Chaucer☜; Francesco Petrach;
Giovanni Boccacio; Miguel de Cervantes
Britian: William Wordsworth; James Joyce (Irish); Rudyard Kipling; Oscar Wilde☜; William
Golding; Jane Austen☜; Doris Lessing; Charlotte & Emily Bronte; Joseph Conrad; Charles Dickens♭;
George Bernard Shaw; Seamus Heaney (Irish); and of course William Shakespeare☜
Chekoslavakia: Franz KafkaΩ, Milan Kundera, Karel Capek Denmark: Isak Dinesen
France: Gustave Flaubert; Honore De Balzac; Jules Verne; Alexandre Dumas; Victor Hugo; Charles
Baudelaire; Guy de Maupassant; Jean de la Fontaine; Voltaire; Albert CamusΩ
Germany: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Rainer Maria RilkeΩ; Herman Hesse
Italy: Italo Calvino; Primo LeviΩ Poland: Stanislaw Lem
Russia / U.S.S.R: Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Alexander Pushkin; Leo Tolstoy♭; Anton Chekhov; Aleksadr
Solzhenitsyn Spain: Federico Garcia Lorca; Sweden: Selma Lagerlof
South America
Argentina: Jorge Luis Borges☜; Chile: Isabella Allende;; Pablo Neruda☜;
Columbia: Gabriel Garcia Marquez☜; Haiti: Edwidge Danticat;
Mexico: Laura Esquivel
Oceania / Australia
Australia: Phillip Gwynne; Tim Winton New Zealand: Katherine Mansfield
Other Notable Groupings
Jewish: Elie Wiesel; Chiam Potok (American); Yehuda Amichai (Israeli); Primo Levi (Italian) Ω
♭
See why Zartler is wack – he doesn’t like these authors much ☜ One of Zartler’s Fav’s Ω Unusual Choice – show you’re hip!
DO NOT READ: Night; Macbeth; orHouse of Spirits for your independent reading.