Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 7

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... that Håkan Nesser is a successful Swedish crime writer, and that his 1994 novel Borkmanns punkt has been published in English as Borkmann's Point?

... that Alain Robbe-Grillet is both an influential theorist and an author of the nouveau roman?

... that "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" was a popular English song with lyrics from Ben Jonson's 1616 poem, "To Celia"?

... that Ann S. Stephens is credited with writing the first "dime novel"?

... that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are minor characters of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet (pictured)?

... that Moira Buffini, Alex Jones, Sarah Kane, Patrick Marber, and Mark Ravenhill are playwrights usually associated with the movement referred to as "in-yer-face theatre"?

... that Jorge Semprún's first novel, Le grand voyage (The Long Voyage), is a fictionalised account of his deportation to, and incarceration in, Buchenwald concentration camp?