Literature
William Faulkner – Biographical
Biographical
William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for…
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What did the Nobel Prize laureates read when they were young?
In their autobiographies, Nobel Prize laureates reveal their reading habits: how they got started, who spurred them to read on, and where they spent their time losing themselves between the pages of a book. Find out and compare with your own experience, or simply get inspired! Latest book “Indeed in elementary school I often kept…
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Biobibliografisk notis
Bio-bibliography
Swedish Biobibliografisk notis Günter Grass född 1927 i Danzig-Langfuhr av polsk-tyska föräldrar. Efter krigstjänst och amerikansk fångenskap 1944-46 arbetade han som lant- och gruvarbetare, studerade konst i Düsseldorf och Berlin. Försörjde sig 1956-59 som skulptör, grafiker och författare i Paris, därefter i Berlin. Grass inträdde 1955 i den samhällskritiska Gruppe 47 (senare hyllad i Mötet…
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