Playwright Cards
Description: Dawit Isaak (born 28 October 1964) is a Swedish-Eritrean playwright, journalist and writer. Isaak has been held in Eritrean prison since 2001 without trial and is considered a traitor by the Eritrean government. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience and has called for his immediate and unconditional release. He is the only Swedish citizen held as a prisoner of conscience. Isaak came to Sweden in August 1987 and he became a Swedish citizen on 4 November 1992. Isaak lived in the west coast city of Gothenburg. When Eritrea gained independence, Isaak returned to his native country, got married and had children. He began work as a reporter for the country's first independent newspaper, Setit. Eventually, he became a ...
Description: If you're a writer for a story -- whether that's a screenplay, novel, short story, or poem -- then this funny writing shirt is just for you! This novelist t shirt makes the perfect birthday present or gift for the writer in your life. Screenwriters, songwriters, game writers, and novel writers are all welcome.
Description: George Bernard Shaw portrait and quote: We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw portrait and quote: We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing. Card
by artbleed2
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Description: Zbigniew Herbert was one of the essential Polish poets of the twentieth century and one of the main artists who opposed communism in Poland. Some of his famous works are Mr. Cogito, Epilogue to a Storm, Elegy for the Departure, Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems, etc.
Henrik Ibsen portrait and quote: “The strong must learn to be lonely.” Card
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Description: Perfect for men, women, teens, anyone who loves witty humor, literary references, and a no-nonsense attitude toward unnecessary drama. Ideal for those who appreciate clever sayings and a sarcastic twist on everyday life.
Stop Making Drama You're Not Shakespeare Funny Sassy Design Card
by UniverseOfLeeMei
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Description: If you're a writer for a story -- whether that's a screenplay, novel, short story, or poem -- then this funny writing shirt is just for you! This novelist t shirt makes the perfect birthday present or gift for the writer in your life. Screenwriters, songwriters, game writers, and novel writers are all welcome.
Description: Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child and was president of his high school's literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper. Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his lifetime was written in the Negro dialect associated with the antebellum South, though he wrote in several dialects, including German and the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley.[1] Dunbar's work was praised by William Dean Howells, a leading editor associa...
Description: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe shaped himself in a renaissance way, excelling in various fields: he was a statesman and scientist, a poet, a novelist, a painter! And he was very successful! His most significant contribution to humanity is in literature. At the age of 24, he became a celebrity, his autobiographical novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) is the world's first best-seller. It also sparked and influenced the Romantic movement in literature. The book had haunted Goethe throughout his life. As great men fight great battles, Goethe later faced the ultimate adversary - the Devil. In his play Faust, Goethe examines the human soul's corruption, gifting us a lasting metaphor.
Description: he son of Irish immigrants, who went through rough times, rose to become one of the twentieth century's best American playwrights. Following the path of Chekhov and Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill chose realism as his way of expression. Long Day's Journey into the Night, his most famous play, is still performed worldwide. O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times, and in 1936 the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Description: Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, writer, playwright, and philosopher. He is one of the key figures of German culture in general. In his writing, both artistic and philosophical, Schiller examines the great themes of love, freedom, and faith. Note: we redesigned an early nineteenth-century portrait of Schiller by Gerhard von Kügelgen.
