K. Usman (Haji Kurnia Usman) dilahirkan di Dusun Tanjung Serian, Muara Enim, Palembang, 11 Agustus 1940. Sejak tahun 1956 menulis puisi, cerpen, esai, dan cerita bersambung di 100 lebih media massa di Indonesia dan Jepang. Menerima Anugerah Kebudayaan dari Menteri Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata R.I. 2007.

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Suparto Brata lahir di Surabaya, Jawa Timur, 27 Februari 1932. Ia anak nomor delapan dari pasangan Raden Suratman Bratatanaya dengan Raden Ayu Jembawati. Waktu Suparto lahir, ayahnya menganggur, sementara ibunya bekerja sebagai pembantu rumah tangga. Masa kecil ia habiskan dengan mengikuti ibunya yang berpindah-pindah tempat kerja dari satu kota ke kota lain. Setelah ibunya tak lagi menjadi pembantu rumah tangga dalam keluarga salah seorang kakaknya di Probolinggo, pada tahun 1947 Suparto kembali ke Surabaya, tempat ia meneruskan sekolah di SMPN Jalan Kepanjen 1. Namun, karena terkendala berbagai hal, meski nilai rapor untuk mata pelajaran IPA-nya bagus, ia tidak bisa meneruskan sekolah ke tingkat lebih tinggi. Selulus SMP, Suparto langsung bekerja. Pertama di Rumah Sakit Kelamin (1951) dan kemudian di Kantor Pos, Telepon dan Telegrap di Surabaya, sambil ia melanjutkan sekolah di SMAK St. Louis. Setelah tamat SMA pada tahun 1957, ia meneruskan lagi bekerja di Kantor Telegrap (1952-1960) dan kemudian kembali berpindah-pindah tempat kerja dan profesi, mulai di PDN Jaya Bhakti Cabang Surabaya (1960-1967), menjadi pedagang kapuk/pengarang/wartawan freelance (1967-1971), dan menjadi pegawai Pemkot Surabaya sampai pensiun pada 1988. Suparto menulis sejak tahun 1952. Karangannya dimuat di berbagai koran dan majalah, termasuk Siasat, Mimbar Indonesia, Kisah, Tanahair, Surabaya Post, Jawa Pos, Kompas, dan Indonesia Raya. Sejak 1958 juga menulis dalam bahasa Jawa, yang hasilnya diter­bitkan di koran-koran dan majalah seperti Panjebar Semangat, Jaya Baya, Djaka Lodang, Mekar Sari, dan Damar Jati. Di antara puluhan karya sastra Suparto Brata yang sudah di­bukukan antara lain yng berjudul Surabaya Tumpah Darahku, Saksi Mata, Gadis Tangsi, Saputangan Gambar Naga, Mencari Sarang Angin, Kremil, Republik Jungkir Balik, Donyané Wong Culika, Lelakoné Si lan Man, Ser! Randha Cocak, Suparto Brataès Omnibus, dan Pawèstri Tanpa Idhèntiti. Nama Suparto Brata tercatat dalam buku Five Thousand Perso­nalities of the World (edisi VI, 1988), terbitan The American Biograp­hical Institute. Sumber : http://buku.kompas.com/Penulis/Supart...

Hans Christian Andersen (often referred to in Scandinavia as H.C. Andersen) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyr, or "fairy-tales" — express themes that transcend age and nationality. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Nightingale", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and many more. His stories have inspired plays, ballets, and both live-action and animated films.

620 BC - 564 BC Tradition considers Greek fabulist Aesop as the author of Aesop's Fables , including "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Fox and the Grapes." This credited ancient man told numerous now collectively known stories. None of his writings, if they ever existed, survive; despite his uncertain existence, people gathered and credited numerous tales across the centuries in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Generally human characteristics of animals and inanimate objects that speak and solve problems characterize many of the tales. One can find scattered details of his life in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An ancient literary work, called The Aesop Romance tells an episodic, probably highly fictional version of his life, including the traditional description of him as a strikingly ugly slave (δοῦλος), whose cleverness acquires him freedom as an adviser to kings and city-states. Older spellings of his name included Esop(e) and Isope. A later tradition, dating from the Middle Ages, depicts Aesop as a black Ethiopian. Depictions of Aesop in popular culture over the last two and a half millennia included several works of art and his appearance as a character in numerous books, films, plays, and television programs. Abandoning the perennial image of Aesop as an ugly slave, the movie Night in Paradise (1946) cast Turhan Bey in the role, depicting Aesop as an advisor to Croesus, king; Aesop falls in love with a Persian princess, the intended bride of the king, whom Merle Oberon plays. Lamont Johnson also plays Aesop the Helene Hanff teleplay Aesop and Rhodope (1953), broadcast on hallmark hall of fame. Brazilian dramatist Guilherme Figueiredo published A raposa e as uvas ("The Fox and the Grapes"), a play in three acts about the life of Aesop, in 1953; in many countries, people performed this play, including a videotaped production in China in 2000 under the title Hu li yu pu tao or 狐狸与葡萄 . Beginning in 1959, animated shorts under the title Aesop and Son recurred as a segment in the television series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, its successor. People abandoned the image of Aesop as ugly slave; Charles Ruggles voiced Aesop, a Greek citizen, who recounted for the edification of his son, Aesop Jr., who then delivered the moral in the form of an atrocious pun. In 1998, Robert Keeshan voiced him, who amounted to little more than a cameo in the episode "Hercules and the Kids" in the animated television series Hercules. In 1971, Bill Cosby played him in the television production Aesop's Fables. British playwright Peter Terson first produced the musical Aesop's Fables in 1983. In 2010, Mhlekahi Mosiea as Aesop staged the play at the Fugard theatre in Cape Town, South Africa.

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815). Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g. This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie . Adapted from Wikipedia.

People remember American writer Washington Irving for the stories " Rip Van Winkle " and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ," contained in The Sketch Book (1820). This author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century wrote newspaper articles under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle to begin his literary career at the age of nineteen years. In 1809, he published The History of New York under his most popular public persona, Diedrich Knickerbocker. Historical works of Irving include a five volume biography of George Washington (after whom he was named) as well as biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and several histories, dealing with subjects, such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra, of 15th-century Spain. John Tyler, president, appointed Irving to serve as the first Spanish speaking United States minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846.