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• in late 2008, Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad won the Brage Prize and was hired as the first in-house playwright at the National Theatre of Norway?
• although Russian playwright Viktoriya Tokareva's writing style is often compared to that of Anton Chekhov, none of her work has been published in English?
• Russian playwright Yakov Knyazhnin was once thought to have been tortured to death after presenting a libertarian play to Catherine the Great?
• the libretto for Rameau's first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), was provided by the seasoned playwright and librettist abbé Pellegrin?
• the Peruvian playwright Juan de Espinosa Medrano wrote plays both in Spanish and in Quechua during the 17th century?
• though George Bernard Shaw called fellow Edwardian playwright St John Hankin’s death "a public calamity," his work was largely neglected until the 1990s?
• the Requiem of Max Reger is a musical setting not of the Latin Requiem, but of a poem Requiem written by the dramatist Friedrich Hebbel?
• Vienna Fingers cookies, first sold in 1915, were mentioned in American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple?
• Luis Rafael Sanchez is considered to be the greatest playwright to hail from Puerto Rico?
• Jamaican-born poet, playwright and screenwriter Evan Jones wrote the 1963 BBC television play Madhouse on Castle Street in which Bob Dylan made his acting début?
• French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac once lived in the house on the Moika River Embankment which now hosts the Consulate-General of France in Saint Petersburg?
• legal experts consider the YouTube divorce video posted by British playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith be the first of its kind?
• Malian playwright and novelist Massa Makan Diabaté was the descendant of a long line of Malinké griots?
• poet and playwright Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (pictured), known as the Polish Sappho, discussed topics such as abortion, extra-marital affairs, and incest?
• playwright Josefina Niggli is believed to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her?
• English playwright David Edgar was the first pupil in Oundle School's 300-year history to be permitted to direct a school play?