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French Notice biobibliographique Harold Pinter est né le 10 octobre 1930 dans le faubourg de Hackney à Londres, fils d’un tailleur pour dames juif. Pendant sa jeunesse Pinter est exposé à l’antisémitisme, ce qui, selon lui-même, est déterminant pour sa formation de dramaturge. Au début de la deuxième guerre mondiale il est évacué à l’âge…

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Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 9 oktober 2008 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2008 tilldelas den franske författaren Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio “uppbrottets, det poetiska äventyrets och den sinnliga extasens författare, utforskare av en mänsklighet utanför och nedanför den härskande civilisationen”.

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Biographical

To recount my life for the Nobel Foundation, I would like to present it as possessing some romantic quality, some unique character, like ‘s early adventures in India, or ‘s leadership in the criticism of British arts and economics. But my life, aside from such youthful pranks as sailing on cattleships from America to England…

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Yasunari Kawabata, son of a highly-cultivated physician, was born in 1899 in Osaka. After the early death of his parents he was raised in the country by his maternal grandfather and attended the Japanese public school. From 1920 to 1924, Kawabata studied at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he received his degree. He was one…

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Camilo José Cela Trulock was born on 11 May, 1916, in Iria Flavia, district of Padron, province of la Coruña. Principal works: Poetry: Pisando la dudosa luz del dia (1956; 1st ed. 1945). Novels: La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942), Pabellón de reposo (1943), Nuevas andanzas y desventuras de Lazarillo de Tormes (1944), La colmena…

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Bibliography

  Works in Czech Mesto v slzach, 1921 Sama laska, 1923 Na vlnach T.S.F., 1925. – Revised and published as Svatební cesta, 1938 Slavik zpiva spatne, 1926 Hvezdy nad Rajskou zahradou, 1929 Postovni holub, 1929 Jablko z klina, 1933 Ruce Venusiny, 1936 Zpivano do rotacky, 1936 Jaro, sbohem, 1937 Osm dni, 1937 Zhasnete svetla, 1938…

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