Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1960 to an Armenian/Egyptian family, and grew up across the world in Victoria, British Columbia. His familiy was artistic, his parents painters and a sister a concert pianist, and though not a film student at the time (he was taking Internati
Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic re
Zadie Smith is a British novelist and essayist. A 1997 graduate of Cambridge, Smith began her writing career in the late 1990s, publishing her first novel, 'White Teeth,' in 2000. Acclaimed by critics, 'White Teeth,' a look at London from three characters' culturally divergent perspectives, won the G