Red group equality and culture

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Female European writers and European directors of cinema Jihan Maamouri, Antonella Otero i Carlos Urbรกn, Fereniki, Fay, Konstantina

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Agatha Christie He was born in Torquay, September 15, 1890 and died in Wallingford, on January 12, 1976. She was a British writer and playwright specialized in the police genre. His outstanding work is Murdered in the Orient Express. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time.


Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë was born in Thornton on July 30, 1818 Haworth, and died on December 19, 1848. She was a British poet and novelist. The literary genres that Bronte wrote were: fiction and poetry. Wuthering Heights, his only novel, is considered a classic of English literature. One of the fictional works produced by the Brontë siblings was Branwell's The Life of Alexander Percy,


Agnès Varda Agnès Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium, May 30, 1928, is a Belgian film director. She is known as the grandmother of the new French vague and as one of the pioneers of feminist cinema. The first film by Agnès Varda was The short-pointed filmed in 1956.


Anne Fontaine Anne Fontaine was born 15 July 1959 is a film director, screenwriter, and former actress. She lives and works in France. Fontaine's first project as solo director, Les Histoires d'amour finissent mal... en gĂŠnĂŠral (Love Affairs Usually End Badly). It won the Best Screenplay award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival and is generally considered a milestone on Fontaine's way to becoming "an important figure in contemporary French cinema" Fontaine's work is not easily categorised, though the phrase "psychological drama" is often used.


Ruth Rendell If you are into detective stories, Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) is the writer for you! Her work focused on outlining the psychological background of the characters she created, as she tried to explain the reasons why criminals behave the way they do. Romantic obsession, miscommunication between people as well the impact of chance in our lives were some of the major themes in her work. Picture downloaded using Google’s option for images free to reuse.


George Eliot If you were living in the 19th century, you might have to write by a man’s name to get your work published. This was the case with Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). At a time when women were considered to write only stories of a romantic content, not worth reading, Mary Ann Evans, chose the pen name George Eliot to pass off as a man. The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861) are two of her most famous novels. Picture downloaded using Google’s option for images free to reuse.


Conclusion During the course of history these women have become international icons of cinema and literature. Despite the difficulty they have had to get recognition they have been persisting in their work.


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