Significant writers, directors and performers at the top of their profession are realising that there are particular artistic possibilities afforded by working with young people.
Biographical data and analysis of significant writers and their works.
Dan Fante, who died on on Monday aged 71, was one of the American literary underground's most significant writers.
Among male writers, Brian Castro, Robert Drewe, David Foster, and Tim Winton similarly emerged as significant writers.
Cam's list of participants now reads like a Who's Who of the most significant writers, poets and artists of the time.
"Bridgend was the subject Gary was shying away from," says NTW artistic director John McGrath, who rates Owen as "one of the most significant writers of his generation".
Wallace, whose reputation as one of contemporary America's most significant writers continues to grow, took his own life in 2008, aged 46.
Lincoln Center's Great Performers series has come up with "The Spoken Word," a program honoring significant writers of the 20th century.
Vera Yefremova, the director of the Turgenev Museum in the provincial capital, Oryol, said the region had fed the talents of 182 significant writers.
She cited many significant writers, Bellow among them, whom she felt had spent their first few novels "determinedly showing off about nothing very much" before they "got it".
After just four novels, Robinson is frequently named one of America's most significant writers; the Gilead novels in particular have been heaped with praise, regularly appearing on lists of the greatest contemporary American fiction.
