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  • 19-04-2012 11:26pm
    #1
    Kinski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭


    Putting faces to the names.

    Identify the author pictured. First poster with the correct answer poses the next one, and so on (no cheating by looking at the link!)

    First up:

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRigYXy9WR0_dDVhvKR-dibzIZPpMHoSEwgfnQWiSQpn930Z4gJ


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    #2
    belacqua_
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭belacqua_


    Windbag Lewis.


    40329257.jpg


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    #3
    ThirdMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭ThirdMan


    This is a great idea, but it's dying a death. Nobody seems to know who the second guy is .

    Forgive me for trying to kick it back into life with a relatively easy one.

    169_letters_genius.jpg


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    belacqua_
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭belacqua_


    That's a toughy, but I'll let someone else ... call it. Here's a clue for mine:

    'Il est difficile à celui qui vit hors du monde de ne pas rechercher les siens'


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    #5
    Kinski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Kinski


    Belacqua's is André Malraux. Initially I thought it might be Camus, then figured it was still probably a Frenchman (French writers are always photographed smoking!) so looked at pics of French writers on Wikipedia and got the answer that way...left it to see if anyone would just know.

    ThirdMan's now so.


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    rockmongrel
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭rockmongrel


    ThirdMan's is Arthur Koestler.

    Erich_Maria_Remarque1.jpg


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    #7
    Kinski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Kinski


    Ok, this thread doesn't look like it has legs, but I'll give it one more shot. Last one was Erich Maria Remarque.

    A handy one:
    tolkien_1916.jpg


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    #8
    ThirdMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭ThirdMan


    J.R.R. Tolkien.

    It wasn't that handy, I needed help.

    6a00d8341c630a53ef014e5fe0df4f970c-800wi


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    #9
    Kinski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Kinski


    ThirdMan wrote: »
    J.R.R. Tolkien.

    It wasn't that handy, I needed help.

    It's the main pic of him on Wikipedia, so I thought a lot of people must have seen it. Him as an old man with a big pipe just seemed a bit too handy!;)

    I know this one, but I'll wait and see if someone else gets it.


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    wilkie2006
    Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    Kinski wrote: »
    Belacqua's is André Malraux. Initially I thought it might be Camus, then figured it was still probably a Frenchman (French writers are always photographed smoking!) so looked at pics of French writers on Wikipedia and got the answer that way...left it to see if anyone would just know.

    ThirdMan's now so.


    I thought it was Camus too.

    Is post 8 James Elroy?


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    #11
    ThirdMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭ThirdMan


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    Is post 8 James Elroy?

    It is indeed. Your turn.


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    #12
    ThirdMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭ThirdMan


    Kinski wrote: »
    It's the main pic of him on Wikipedia, so I thought a lot of people must have seen it.

    I kicked myself when I found out. He's one of those old guys that you can't imagine ever being young. Like Gandalf I guess.


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    #13
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    Martin-Amis-In-1981-007.jpg

    If you need a clue...
    Not a very nice character but a damn fine writer (usually). He's sparked the opprobrium of many, including: Terry Eagleton, Julian Barnes, Christopher Hitchens and Anna Ford.


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    #14
    ThirdMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭ThirdMan


    Martin Amis

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    #15
    aegisisc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10 ✭aegisisc


    hello guys which image i give you ans. There are so many image.


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    #16
    ThirdMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭ThirdMan


    The first seven have been answered, but the author in post number 14 hasn't been solved yet.


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