Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Russian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher (1821–1878)
Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of the mid-nineteenth century, particularly
Read biography ↗Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher.
Read biography ↗Persian poet
Nizami Ganjavi, Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī, was a 12th-century poet.
Read biography ↗American linguist and activist (born 1928)
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic.
Read biography ↗American film director and writer (1941–2012)
Nora Ephron was an American writer, playwright, journalist, and filmmaker.
Read biography ↗French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
Michel de Nostredame, usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.
Read biography ↗German poet and writer (1772-1801)
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic.
Read biography ↗American short story writer (1862–1910)
William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O.
Read biography ↗French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)
Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highl
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