Writer Meme

[amelia_petkova]

This is one I made up a while ago; I think I may have been procrastinating on doing homework. Here is what you do:

--Make a list of the letters of the alphabet.
--Write down the name of a country for each letter.
--Add the name of a writer (author, poet, playwright, etc.) for each country.

I admit, there were a few that I just couldn't do. This meme made me realize that I want the U.S. to publish novels by more foreign writers. (As well as bring in music from other countries coughElisabethcough.) You get imaginary bonus points if you can name countries other than the ones I used. (Advice: an anthology of world poetry was my best friend during this.)



A-Z World Writing

Australia: Garth Nix

Brazil: Joao Cabral de Melo Neto

Chile: Isabel Allende

Denmark: Hans Christian Andersen

England: Susan Cooper

Finland: Paavo Haavikko

Germany: Michael Ende

Haiti: Edwidge Danticat

Ireland: William Butler Yeats

Jamaica: Lorna Goodison

Kashmir: Agha Shahid Ali

Lebanon: Adonis

Mexico: Octavio Paz

Nigeria: Wole Soyinka

O

Palestine: Mahmoud Darwish

Q

Russia: Anna Akhmatova

Sweden: Astrid Lindgren

Turkey: Nazim Hikmet

United States of America: Peter S. Beagle

Vietnam: Nguyen Chi Thien

Wales: Aneirin

X

Yugoslavia: Novica Tadic

Z