Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican poet and diplomat. He was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces
Early in Wilde’s career he wrote more poetry than anything else, and ‘Easter Day’ is one of his finest verses – a nice sonnet about Rome on Easter Day.
This sweet short story is all about transforming the cunning and sophistication of disguise into pleasure, and on the act of revelation by an innocent man.
The cabman Iona’s son recently died. He desperately and unsuccessfully tries to have a talk with the people he meets and tell them of how shattered he is.
