Noteworthy – Page 19

17Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura, writer

Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura ‑ a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime ‑ He died on April 16 due to the Covid‑19. Luis Sepúlveda was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda was author of poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he spoke also English, French and Italian. In the late 1980s, he conquered the literary scene with his first novel, The Old Man Who Read Love Novels. Luis Sepúlveda was born in Ovalle, Limarí Province, in 1949. His father, José Sepúlveda, was a militant of the Chilean Communist Party; and his mother, Irma Calfucura, was a nurse of Mapuche descent. After High S...

Christine Mandegarian, Personal Support Worker

16Apr

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Canada, Noteworthy, Profiles

Christine Mandegarian, Personal Support Worker

Christine Mandegarian – a Personal Support Worker at Altamont Care Community, Scarborough, Canada – passed away on 15 April 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Christine was 54 years old. Christine Mandegarian had worked for 31 years at Altamont Care Community, a long-term care centre in Scarborough, Ont., her husband said. Sienna Senior Living spokesperson Natalie Gokchenian confirmed the death. "On behalf of the entire team at Altamont Care Community, we mourn the passing of a much-loved and valued team member," she said in a statement issued Friday. "She will be sadly missed by all of her colleagues and by all the residents she cared for. On behalf of the entire team, we extend our deepest condolences to her family, loved ones and colleagues.&q...

16Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Turkey

Ali Ülkü Azrak, lawyer and academic

Ali Ülkü Azrak ‑ a Turkish lawyer and academic ‑ died at the Florence Nightingale Hospital on 15 April 2020 due to complications from COVID-19. He had two sons from his marriage to Hannelore Azrak, who was of German origin. He spent the majority of his time between Turkey and Germany. Their children Deniz and Atilla live in Germany. Azrak graduated from Vefa High School as a top student. He later graduated from Istanbul University School of Law in 1956. He started to work as an assistant in Istanbul University in 1958. He became "Associate Professor" in 1970. In 1971, he started to work as an "Associate Professor" at Istanbul University School of Law - Administrative Law department and continued this duty until 1979. In 1979, he was among the people who founded the Istanb...

16Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Shahin Shahablou, photographer

Shahin Shahablou ‑ an Iranian photographer ‑ died of COVID-19, aged 56, on 15 April 2020. He was raised in Tehran. His love of photography led to a bachelor’s and then a master’s degree in the subject from the University of Tehran. For the last two years of his undergraduate course worked for the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organisation , photographing heritage sites while managing the organisation’s darkroom. He taught photography, enjoyed solo exhibitions in Iran and India. He a photojournalist at the new Azad newspaper, a pro-reformist publication that appeared in the comparatively liberal years of Mohammad Khatami’s presidency and became a photojournalist and a board member of the Iranian Photojournalists Association. When Azad was ...

16Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

John Pfahl, photographer

John Pfahl ‑ an American photographer – died on April 15, 2020, in Buffalo, New York, of COVID-19. Pfahl was born in New York City and grew up in Wanaque, New Jersey. He is known for his landscape photography such as his 1974 "Altered Landscapes" series. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in the School of Art and his MA from Syracuse University in the School of Communications. He taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, from 1968 to 1983. Later he was professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. In 2012 he taught at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

16Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Sweden

Adam Alsing, TV and radio presenter

Rolf Adam Engelbrekt Alsing ‑ a Swedish television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Big Brother Sweden on Kanal 5 – died on 15 April 2020 due to Covid-19. He moved to TV4 in 2005, presenting the Swedish version of Jeopardy!. He also presented his own show Adam Live. He later ventured into radio presenting shows on Rix FM and Mix Megapol. Alsing grew up in Karlstad in Värmland, and Sollefteå in Ångermanland. He worked as a disc jockey during his high school years in Karlstad. He started his career as a presenter for several shows on the Sveriges Radio local broadcasts from Värmland at the time called Radio Värmland. When TV4 started its broadcasts in 1990 he applied for television presenter work, and debuted as presenter fo...

16Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Milena Jelinek, screenwriter

Milena Jelinek ‑ a Czech American screenwriter, playwright and teacher ‑ died in New York on 15 April 2020 of complications from COVID-19, aged 84. Jelinek wrote the screenplay for the film Forgotten Light, which was awarded three Czech Lions in 1997. Her name is associated with the golden generation of Czech filmmakers, known as Czech New Wave. She was married to the late researcher Frederick Jelinek. Jelinek was born on 19 August 1935 in Prestice, near Pilsen. From 1955, she studied at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The film director Ivan Passer was one of her classmates, and the writer Milan Kundera was her literature teacher. One of her early screenplays, written under her maiden name and titled Snadný život (An Easy Lif...

16Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Bruce Myers, actor and comedian

Bruce Myers ‑ was a British actor, comedian, and director ‑ died on April 15, 2020 due to COVID‑19. Bruce Myers was born on April 12, 1942 in Radcliffe, Manchester, England. He was an actor, known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), The Mahabharata (1989) and Relic Hunter (1999). He was married to Corinne Jaber and Ivanka Polchenco.

16Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Henry Grimes, Jazz bassist

Henry Grimes ‑ an American jazz double bassist, violinist, and poet ‑ died on April 15, 2020, at the age of 84 from complications of COVID-19. After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970. Grimes was often presumed to have died, but he was rediscovered in 2002 and returned to performing. Henry Alonzo Grimes was born in Philadelphia, to parents who both had been musicians in their youth. He took up the violin at the age of 12, then began playing tuba, English horn, percussion, finally switching to the double bass at Mastbaum Technical High School. He furthered his musical studies at Juilliard and established a reputation as a versatile bassist by the...

Rolf Adam Engelbrekt Alsing, Radio and television host

16Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, Sweden

Rolf Adam Engelbrekt Alsing, Radio and television host

Rolf Adam Engelbrekt Alsing ‑ a Swedish television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Big Brother Sweden on Kanal 5 ‑ died on 15 April 2020, at the age of 51, after suffering from COVID-19. Alsing moved to TV4 in 2005, presenting the Swedish version of Jeopardy!. He also presented his own show Adam Live. He later ventured into radio presenting shows on Rix FM and Mix Megapol. Alsing grew up in Karlstad in Värmland, and Sollefteå in Ångermanland. He worked as a disc jockey during his high school years in Karlstad. He started his career as a presenter for several shows on the Sveriges Radio local broadcasts from Värmland at the time called Radio Värmland. When TV4 started its broadcasts in 1990 he applied for televisio...