It has since been turned into a stage play, an opera, a ballet, a jazz album and this rarely seen movie, written and directed by the versatile novelist, academic, biographer, historian and occasional cineaste Andrew Sinclair.
The Japan of the immediate postwar period and the prosperous Japan of the 1950s and 1960s provided the background for most of the works of Mishima Yukio, an exceptionally brilliant and versatile novelist and playwright who became the first Japanese writer generally known abroad.
With more than forty romance novels in her catalogue, Van Dyken is a prolific and versatile novelist whose love and enthusiasm for the romance genre are contagious.
In the trompe l'oeil universe of the versatile Irish novelist John Banville, things rarely happen just once.
The most skilful, sensitive and versatile of our historical novelists, the County Durham miner's son has died aged 81.
Sailing aboard a hired yacht, Murphy, a versatile journalist, playwright and mystery novelist, embarks on a grand tour of the region's lesser-known fjords and bays.
Rabble-rousing aside, Novelist is an astonishingly versatile performer.
The most versatile figure of Portuguese Modernism is José de Almada Negreiros, a poet, novelist, caricaturist, dancer, and actor who provoked scandal with his Manifesto anti-Dantas (1915), which ridiculed the doctor and politician Júlio Dantas, and his "Ultimatum futurista ás gerações portuguezas do Seculo XX" (1917; "Futurist Ultimatum to the Portuguese Generations of the 20th Century").
SPORTSTUESDAY, PAGE D1 Peter Ustinov Is Dead The witty and versatile entertainer, whose long career amounted to a revolving series of star turns as actor, playwright, novelist, director and raconteur, was 82.
April 28 , 1902Oslo, Norway October 16, 1979 Hvaler, Norway Johan Borgen, in full Johan Collet Müller Borgen (born April 28 , 1902 Kristiania [now Oslo], Norway died October 16, 1979, Hvaler) Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and essayist, one of 20th-century Norway's most important and versatile writers.
He's a novelist of a kind that's fairly unfamiliar in this country, less rare in Britain: a debonair, versatile, casually philosophical literary entertainer — clever and thoughtful, but not so dauntingly brilliant that you suspect him of being, as Jeeves would say, "fundamentally unsound".
