I've been tagged by Fragano for this meme. The deal is to name 25 writers who have influenced you, and then tag 25 people.Hear ye the gospel according to Fragano: "Influence" does not mean the same thing as "enjoy a lot."
Here are my 25 writers in no particular order:
- Derek Walcott
- Kamau Brathwaite
- Dennis Scott
- Anthony McNeill
- VS Naipaul
- Ernest Hemingway
- William Faulkner
- Mathew Arnold
- Alexander Pope
- Bob Marley
- James W. Hall
- Athol Fugard
- Orlando Patterson
- Dante
- Flannery O'Connor
- Robert Lowell
- George Lamming
- Gabriel García Marquéz
- Edgar Mittelholzer
- Mervyn Morris
- Pablo Neruda
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Robert Penn Warren
- Albert Camus
- Sylvia Plath
Here are the 25 bloggers that I'm tagging:
Dave Lucas
Rethabile Masilo
Professor Zero
Black Looks
Susan's Journal of Literary Things
Crafty Green Poet
Monique Roffey
Signifyin' Guyana
Black Threads
Blogworld
Fernham
The Fearless Blog
Tobias Buckell Online
Doan Mind Me
Jack Mandora
The Prisoner's Wife
Life, Unscripted, on the Rock
My thoughts...on stuff
A Brave New Word
What's in a Name - Island Girl Musings
Boldness, Genius, Power, Magic
The Illumination Blog
Duane Francis
Morphological Confetti
Black-Eyed Susan's Blog
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18 comments:
oh that's an interesting one, thanks for including me! I'll have a good think and then I'll put together an answer...
Crafty, I'm looking forward to your answer
OK, I'm working on it. The hardest part is putting in all the links ... picky job. It is fun, though, and the lists are interesting!
(P.S. I'm posting with my blogger ID because I like the skull picture, but the post'll be up on my regular site in about 3 days.)
I've just done the 15 book one, up somewhere on the blog. It's interesting to see what books/writers people are made of. Cheers and thanks for the tag.
Rethabile, I read your post on the 15 books.
The distinction that Fragano made is important and should yield some interesting results
Professor Zero, I, too, like the skull picture.
Can I even name 25 writers without cheating hmmm
Adam Hochschild
Austin Clarke
Edward P Jones
Nalo Hopkinson
Alex Hailey
George Lamming
Earl Lovelace
Jose Saramago
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Zora neale Hurston
Chester Himes
Cecil Foster
Donald Goines
J.R.R Tolkien
Chinua Achebe
David Chariandy
Colin Channer
Elechi Amadi
Thompson Cezair
leonie Swann
C.L.R James
Kamau Brathwaite
Timothy Zahn
Issac Azimov
Harper lee
I can definitely see some of the connections.
So you are a Zora fan too? I love to read her work, but I can't really say she is an influence. But it's always good to meet another Zora-ite!
1Love,
Geoffrey
Thanks for the opportunity to do this. I posted my 25 today.
Take care.
I'm hopping over to your place to see them!
Cool. I'm on it. Nice list of writers. I'm going to see if I can come up with 25.
Stephen, I'll be waiting
This is fun. I'm working on the 15 books now. It's interesting, harder, yet more revealing (or differently revealing) than the 25 authors - more limited & more precise.
Professor Z., I was going to limit myself to 5 like Monique's, so I, too, am working on the 15.
Thanks for the tag, I promise to get with it later this week as my plate is full - spilling over in fact!
Thanks for tagging me, I think ...
I posted my 25, twice!
I have finally finished and posted this!
No, I hadn't forgotten, it just took a long time, my almost 25 are here:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2009/03/influential-writers.html
Crafty, I'll hop over there right now.
Thank you!
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