Previous Hopwood winners include Brett Ellen Block, Max Apple, Lorna Beers, Sven Birkerts, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Ciardi, Tom Clark, Lyn Coffin, Cid Corman, Christopher Paul Curtis, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Garrett Hongo, Lawrence Joseph, Jane Kenyon, Laura Kasischke, Elizabeth Kostova, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Davi Napoleon, Frank O ' Hara, Marge Piercy, William Craig Rice, Ari Roth, Davy Rothbart, Betty Smith, Ron Sproat, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmund White, Nancy Willard, Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and Maritta Wolff.

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Core faculty has included fiction writers David Gates, Amy Hempel, Jill McCorkle, Sheila Kohler, Martha Cooley, Askold Melnyczuk, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Alice Mattison ; nonfiction writers Sven Birkerts, Susan Cheever, Phillip Lopate, Tom Bissell, and George Scialabba ; and poets April Bernard, Major Jackson, Timothy Liu, Amy Gerstler, Mark Wunderlich, and Ed Ochester.

Following Rector's death in August 2007, Sven Birkerts took over as acting director of the Writing Seminars.

* Birkerts, Sven Postmodern Picaresque.

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The critic Sven Birkerts argued that the unfinished state of The Curse of Caste ( Collins died before completing it ) and its poor literary quality should disqualify it as the first building block of African-American literature.

* Writing Well with Sven Birkerts ( 1994 )

His son is noted literary critic Sven Birkerts.

Canute IV of Denmark, the son of King Sven Estridsen, was born about 1040 and ruled Denmark from 1080-1086.

* Sven Nilsson ( born 1787 ), a Swedish zoologist and archaeologist

Harris married Swedish businessman Anders Sven Axel Ebbeson ( born March 16, 1945 ) in 1996 and has one stepdaughter, Louise.

Hassel claimed that he was born as Sven Pedersen at Frederiksborg, Zealand, Denmark, and later adopted his mother's maiden name, Hassel.

Svend Aggesen ( or " Sven "; also known as Aggessøn, Aggesøn or Aagesen, in Latin Sveno Aggonis ; born around 1140 to 1150, death unknown ) is most famous, in Denmark at least, as the author of one of the first attempts to write a coherent history of Denmark covering the period 300AD-1185AD.

Sven Aggesen was born into a magnate family which had several well-known members.

* Sven Fischer ( born 1971 ), German biathlon-sportsman

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen ( born 30 November 1990 ) is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world.

Sven Jaschan ( born April 29, 1986 ) is the self-confessed author of the NetSky worms, and Sasser computer worms.

Haakon Lorentzen ( born 23 August 1954 ) is the son of Norwegian businessman Erling Sven Lorentzen ( of the Lorentzen family ) and Princess Ragnhild of Norway, the older sister of King Harald V and Princess Astrid of Norway.

Erling Sven Lorentzen ( born 28 January 1923 ) is a Norwegian shipowner and industrialist who has lived in Brazil for decades, who founded Aracruz Celulose in 1968 and who was married to Princess Ragnhild of Norway.

* Sven Schmitt ( born 1976 ), German football player

Lars Sven " Lasse " Hallström ( born 2 June 1946 ) is a Swedish film director.

Sven Anders Gärderud ( born 28 August 1946 ) is a Swedish former athlete, winner of the 3000 m steeplechase event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

* Sven Koenig ( cricketer ) ( born 1973 ), South African cricketer

Sven Tomas Gustafson ( born 28 December 1959 ) is a retired speed skater, and one of the most successful distance skaters of the 1980s.

Based on inspiration from the richly illustrated 1947 edition of the American World Book Encyclopedia, the plan for Focus as conceived by Sven Lidman ( born 1921 ) was based on two principles:

: For Sven Lidman ( born 1921 ), the lexicographer and the son of the writer, see Sven Lidman ( lexicographer ).

: For Sven Lidman ( born 1921 ), the lexicographer and the son of the writer, see Sven Lidman ( lexicographer ).

Carl Hindrik Sven Rudolphsson Lidman ( June 30, 1882 – February 14, 1960 )— military officer, poet, writer, and preacher, grandson of the priest Sven Lidman — was born in Karlskrona, became a sublieutenant in the Swedish royal army reserve in 1903, and studied law at Uppsala University.

Prince Raad married at Södertälje, Sweden, June 30, 1963 ( civil ), and at the Royal Palace, Amman, on August 5, 1963, Swedish-born Margaretha Inga Elisabeth Lind, henceforward known as Majda Raad, President of Al-Hussein Society and Director of Bandak Fdn., born in Arboga on September 5, 1942, daughter of Sven Gustav Lind and wife Carin Inga Birgitta Gunlaug Grönwall, daughter of Assar Grönwall and wife, and an illegitimate descendant of the House of Vasa.

Sven Hassel ( April 19, 1917 — September 21, 2012 ) was a Danish-born writer who wrote novels set during World War II.

On transfer deadline day in September 2009, BBC Sport quoted Hamann as stating: " Yes, Sven < nowiki > Eriksson </ nowiki > phoned me the other day to see if I wanted to sign for Notts County, but I said I wasn't interested at the moment as I feel I can still play at a higher level.

Anders Ivar Sven Wijkman ( born 30 September 1944 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament.

Sven Vilhem Nykvist ( 3 December 1922 – 20 September 2006 ) was a Swedish cinematographer.

Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg ( 21 June 1903, Stockholm – 17 April 1980 ) was a Swedish theatre and film director.

* International Dunhuang Project Newsletter Issue No. 21, article on Sven Hedin, available also as PDF

Leicester City signed Kamara on loan until the end of the 2010 – 11 season on 21 March 2011 after Leicester City manager Sven Goran Eriksson confirmed his interest in signing him.

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Sven Olaf Bjarte Høiby ( 14 November 1936 – 21 March 2007 ) was the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway.

* 1935-50: Sven Lilja ( deceased 1951 )

This second marriage produced Sonja ( b 1951 ) ( now Sonja Quandt-Wolf ), Sabina ( b 1953 ) and Sven ( b 1956 ).