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unusual facts about nom de plume



Axel Wallengren

Sven Axel Olaus Wallengren (originally Svensson) (January 26, 1865, Lund - December 4, 1896, Berlin) was a Swedish author, poet, and journalist, who wrote under the nom de plume Falstaff, fakir.

Bertrand Vac

Bertrand Vac was the nom de plume of Quebec novelist and surgeon Aimé Pelletier (b. Aug. 20, 1914, Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, Quebec; d. July 23, 2010, Montreal).

Bunny Lewis

Authorship was accredited to 'Tulio Trapani and Lee Lange'; Lee Lange was the pseudonym for David Whitfield's producer, Lewis, and Tulio Trapani was the nom de plume of the song's other co-writer and arranger, Mantovani.

Krishna Kumar Sharma

He eventually graduated with a Masters in Law from Allahabad University, receiving a Gold Medal for academic excellence, and became a prominent poet and literary figure under the nom de plume "Betaab".

New Italian Epic

Some examples are Q by Luther Blissett, Romanzo criminale by Giancarlo de Cataldo, L’ottava vibrazione by Carlo Lucarelli and especially Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano.

Tamara Thorne

Tamara Thorne (born August 1957), who also writes under the nom de plume "Chris Curry", is an American horror writer born in Los Angeles, California.

Waseda University Library

Literary works from the Qing Dynasty of China, collected by a writer of Chinese verse, Noguchi Ichitaro (Pen name: Neisai, 1867-1905);


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Albrecht Penck

In memory of Penck, the painter and sculptor Ralf Winkler adopted the nom de plume A. R. Penck in 1966.

Augusto d'Halmar

He became widely known in Chile by his adopted nom de plume, Augusto d’Halmar, in honour of his maternal great grandfather the Swede Baron de d’Halmar.

Bitchy Jones's Diary

Both nom de plume and the title of the blog are deliberately adapted from Bridget Jones's Diary, which represents the antithesis of the author's view of female sexuality.

Bunter

Billy Bunter, a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton (using the nom de plume of Frank Richards).

Community Memory

The record store and its bulletin board brought together drummers seeking fusion guitarists, bagel aficionados looking for sources, and the first poets of the medium, notably one who went by the nom de plume of Benway - the first net personality.

Jean Louis Conneau

In the (1978) TV series Flambards based upon the trilogy, Conneau is spoken of as 'Lieutenant Conneau' by the character Mr. Dermot(Anton Diffring) and by his nom de plume 'Andre Beaumont' by Dermot, William(Alan Parnaby) and Christina Parsons(Christine McKenna), the heroine of the trilogy.

John Vallentin

His grandfather Sir James Vallentin (1814–1870) was Knight Sheriff of London, and his cousin Archibald Thomas Pechey, the lyricist and author, adapted the family name for his nom de plume 'Valentine'.

Myrddin Fardd

John Jones (1836 – July 27, 1921), better known under his nom de plume Myrddin Fardd, was a Welsh writer and antiquarian scholar born in Llangїan, Caernarfonshire.

Paul Kastenellos

Paul Kastenellos is a nom de plume for the author of two novels of Byzantine: Antonina, A Byzantine Slut about the maligned wife of the famed sixth century Roman general Flavius Belisarius, and Count No Man Happy, A Byzantine Fantasy, which recounts the sad life of the Emperor Constantine VI who was blinded by his own mother in the eighth century.

Terry Harknett

Some bibliographies list Adam Hardy as one of Harknett's pseudonyms, in fact a nom de plume of Kenneth Bulmer.