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Born October 16th, 1888, in New York City. Son of James O’Neill, the popular romantic actor. First seven years of my life spent mostly in hotels and railroad trains, my mother accompanying my father on his tours of the United States, although she never was an actress, disliked the theatre, and held aloof from its…

German Biobibliographische Notiz Harold Pinter wurde am 10. Oktober 1930 als Sohn eines jüdischen Damenschneiders in Hackney, London geboren. Er mußte in den Jahren seines Heranwachsens antisemitische Stimmungen fühlen, was, wie er selbst betont hat, für seine Entwicklung zum Dramatiker von Bedeutung war. Beim Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde er als Neunjähriger aus London evakuiert…

Harold Pinter did not submit an autobiography.

Excerpt from The Garlic Ballads Chapter 16 Arrest me if that’s what you want … Someone read the Criminal Code aloud for me – Blind lawbreakers get lenient treatment – I won’t shut my mouth just because you put me in jail … – from a ballad by Zhang Kou sung after…

English Excerpt from The Search Warrant Eight years ago, in an old copy of Paris Soir dated 31 December 1941, a heading on page three caught my eye: “From Day to Day”.* Below this, I read: PARIS Missing, a young girl, Dora Bruder, age 15, height 1.55m, oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen; Distinguished Guests, Friends The other day, suddenly, out of the blue, while we were talking about something completely different, my partner Dorothy burst out as follows: “On the other hand,” she said, “on the other hand, how proud your mother would have been! What…

Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in a village hemmed in by the forests of Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan. His family had lived in the village tradition for several hundred years, and no one in the Oe clan had ever left the village in the valley. Even after Japan embarked…

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Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer by Michiko Niikuni Wilson This article was published on 26 January 2007. Kenzaburo Oe, Japan’s second Nobel Laureate in Literature, with his insistence on engaging the reader in a provocative dialogue on the human condition, is one of the most impassioned voices of conscience countering the country’s minimalist…