Gao Xingjian. Gao Xingjian (Chinese: 高行健; Mandarin: [káu ɕĭŋ tɕiɛ̂n]; born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese[2] émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.”[1] He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship. Gao's drama is considered to be fundamentally absurdist in nature and avant-garde in his native China. His prose works tend to be less celebrated in China but are highly regarded elsewhere in Europe and the West. Early life[edit] Knihy.cpress.cz. Jamie Oliver - 15 minut v kuchyni - Jamie Oliver. Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Eduard Limonov. Early life[edit] Limonov was born in former Soviet Union, in Dzerzhinsk, industrial town in the Gorky Oblast (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast).
Limonov's father—then in the military service – was in a state security career and his mother was a homemaker.[2] In the early years of his life family moved to Kharkiv in the Ukrainian SSR, where Limonov grew up. By Limonov's own account, he began writing "very bad" poetry at the age of thirteen and soon after became involved in theft and petty crime as an adolescent hooligan.[2] Limonov adopted his nom de plume for use in literary circles during this time.[2] Limonov has been married four times. Although neither he nor Shchapova were Jewish, the Soviet Union issued him a false Israeli visa to do so, but soon after the pair came to the United States.[2] Limonov settled in New York City, where he and Shchapova soon divorced. Limonov has been later married to the actress Ekaterina Volkova and has a son Bogdan and daughter Alexandra with her. Writing[edit] Vladimir Sorokin. Vladimir Georgijevič Sorokin (rusky Владимир Георгиевич Сорокин; * 7. srpna 1955, osada Bykovo, Moskevská oblast, SSSR) je ruský spisovatel, scénárista a dramatik, jeden z hlavních představitelů konceptualismu v ruské literatuře.
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Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States. In some ways it is similar to George Orwell's much earlier Down and Out in Paris and London, German investigative reporter Günter Wallraff's Ganz Unten (The Lowest of the Low), John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me, or, even earlier, Robert Tressell's The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists and Jack London's The People of the Abyss. The events related in the book took place between spring 1998 and summer 2000. The book was first published in 2001 by Metropolitan Books.
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