Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 46

... that Zsigmond Móricz (pictured) was a Hungarian novelist who wrote about the Hungarian peasantry and issues of poverty?

... that Annie John is a 1985 novel by Jamaica Kincaid about a girl growing up in Antigua?

... that Ulrike Folkerts was the first woman at the Salzburg Festival to play the role of Death in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's version of Everyman, Jedermann?

... that Ronald Knox was both a theologian and a crime writer, and that Evelyn Waugh wrote his biography?

... that Merriam Modell was a U.S. author of pulp fiction, and that her novel Bunny Lake Is Missing was filmed by Otto Preminger starring Laurence Olivier and Noel Coward?

... that "The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations" is a descriptive list which was created by 19th century French writer Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance?

... that Animal Farm, The Pursuit of Love, Brideshead Revisited, and Cannery Row were all first published in 1945?