World Leaders' Favourite Poems: A Book of Peace - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1902638980 ISBN 13 : 9781902638980

Editeur : Parthian Books, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This collection of international poetry features world famous names; Jorge Luis Borges, Rudyard Kipling, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Wordsworth, Kahil Gibran and Pär Lagerkvist: The poems have all been chosen by national leaders, prime-ministers and presidents including Tony Blair, Ariel Sharon and Gerhard Schröder. There are also personal contributions from some of these influential world leaders themselves such as AJP Abdul Kalam and Ludwig Scotty. The book is subtitled A Book of Peace and is based on an original idea by Mehmet Basci, a Kurdish writer who now lives in Switzerland who wanted to unite, through the love of poetry, some of the worlds most powerful leaders in a dream of peace. The foreword is written by Swiss president, Micheline Calmy-Rey.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mehmet Basci was born in 1979 in Pazarcik, a small town in the county of Kahraman Maras, in Turkish Anatolia. In 1992 he left for Switzerland. He played soccer at FCB (Basel), with a potentially promising professional career until a bad injury in 1996 forced him to quit. In 2000 he published a Romance novel and in 2003 a poetry book In 2003 he started a worldwide project about prime ministers and presidents most favourite poems He is living in Basel.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Parthian Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1902638980
• ISBN 13: 9781902638980
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128