Sentences with phrase «english women writers»

The manuscripts of the first two English women writers are now on display.

Not exact matches

The writer, Bill Sakovich, is a professional translator of Japanese to English who's lived in Japan for two decades or so, who married a Japanese woman, and who just loves Japanese culture in general — in many of his cultural posts, for example, he suggests that the more typical Japanese approach to religion, while seemingly shallow, contradictory, and form - obsessed, makes a lot of sense to him, and indeed, is superior to Western ways.

Feminist issues will be heavily featured at Toronto, via Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris» «Battle of the Sexes,» about the run - up to the famous Billie Jean King - Bobby Riggs exhibition match, with Emma Stone as the tennis pioneer; «Mary Shelley,» Haifaa Al Mansour's look at the personal and creative life of the great English writer starring Elle Fanning in the title role; and Susanna White's «Woman Walks Ahead,» in which Jessica Chastain stars as Catherine Weldon, Sitting Bull's chief advisor.

Disobedience, the English - language debut of the Chilean writer - director Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria), is one of those rare films that benefits from taking its time to get there.

On the face of it, Dickinson might seem well - matched to Davies, the English writer - director whose penchant for penetrating studies of anguished women (The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song) ought to place Cynthia Nixon's performance in a recognisable spectrum, of distant voices and still lives.Instead, Davies's screenplay is remarkable mostly for an archness and artifice only partially redeemed by several of the performances.

Beloved and renowned in China, Tie Ning's numerous books have never before been translated into English; this publication of The Bathing Women introduces a brilliant writer of uncommon talents, vision, and compassion to American readers.

An associate professor of English at Lehigh University, Watts has won numerous awards, including a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Southern Women's Writers Award for Emerging Writer of the Year.

In the 1930s, she lived in France with the legendary English writer Ford Madox Ford; her brother Jack Tworkov was far better - known as a painter; in New York in the 1940s, she was in the heart of the Abstract Expressionist scene (she's the woman in the white blouse between Bradley Walker Tomlin and Robert Goodnough in a much - reproduced photograph of the «Studio 35 Artists» Session» of 1950), but never gained much recognition for her own paintings.

Faith will be in conversation with her daughter, the acclaimed writer and critic Michele Wallace, Professor of English, Women's Studies and Film Studies at the City College of New York and the City University of NY Graduate Center.

Talk: «Painting and the Legacy of Feminism» at Maccarone Presented on the occasion of Maccarone's two current shows, Cecily Brown's «The English Garden» and Rosy Keyser's «The Hell Bitch,» and the recent exhibition «Joan Semmel: Across Five Decades» at Alexander Gray Associates, super-curator and writer Alison Gingeras moderates a discussion on painting and feminism with some of the best women artists working today.

is a musical entertainment celebrating the wit and wisdom of one of Britain's most beloved comediennes, as performed by Catherine Flye, one of Washington's favorite actors, and From April 13 to April 29, 2018, I Did It My Way in Yiddish (in English) features the internationally acclaimed Jewish Canadian, comic performer, musician and writer Deb Filler, a one - woman tour de force in a jam - packed, music - filled show.