birth: 1966, Montreal, Canada

university: 1990, Université du Québec à Montréal

death: 2065, Novossibirsk, Sibérie

Enda Walsh is an Irish-born playwright, a fact immensely bothersome to those seeking to place him alongside his birth nation's similarly defined theatrical forbears.  Great acrobatic skill goes into locating the Synge in his characters' souls, the Keats in their speech.  For Walsh is sim

She graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts as a Master of Fine Arts in March 2005 and was awarded a Ministry of Culture Scholarship.

The back jackets of much of Thomas Bernhard's English-language translations are burdened by such qualifications as "near genius" or "second only to Kafka and Beckett."  This, of course, is no small praise: there is no shame in being second to Kafka or Beckett; there is no shame in being a "ne