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Brendan Behan

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Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (also known as Francis Behan) (pronounced BEE-ən; Irish: Breandán Ó Beacháin; born February 9, 1923; died March 20, 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican. He was an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. His long-term struggle with alcohol, even after attempts to treat it, affected his ability to create and caused health and social problems that limited his work and eventually led to his death.

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OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

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The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature was started in 2011 by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. It is an annual award given to books written by Caribbean authors and published in the year before the award. This prize is the only one in the region that allows entries from any literary genre, including books written by people born in or citizens of the Caribbean.

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List of literary movements

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Literary movements help organize literature into groups that share similar ideas, themes, or styles, rather than grouping by type or time period. These movements give people words to compare and talk about different books and stories. These terms are useful for school lessons or collections of writings.

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Alejo Carpentier

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Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (Spanish pronunciation: [karpanˈtje], French pronunciation: [kaʁpɑ̃tje]; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who had a major influence on Latin American literature during its “boom” period. He was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to French and Russian parents but grew up in Havana, Cuba. Despite being born in Europe, he considered himself Cuban for his entire life.

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Choriamb

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In Greek and Latin poetry, a choriamb (pronounced “kor-ee-AMB”) is a rhythmic pattern made up of four syllables arranged in the order long-short-short-long (— —). This pattern combines a trochee (a long syllable followed by a short one) and an iamb (a short syllable followed by a long one). Choriambs are one of two basic rhythmic patterns that do not appear in spoken language, unlike patterns used in sung or lyrical poetry.

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Georg Büchner Prize

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The Georg Büchner Prize (German: Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary award for works written in the German language. It is named after Georg Büchner, a writer and dramatist who authored the plays Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena. This prize is given every year to authors who write in German and have become well-known for their body of work, which has helped shape modern German culture.

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