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Albert Camus ( French pronunciation: [albɛʁ kamy] ( listen ) ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French author, journalist, and philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement , which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton . [ 1 ]
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [b] ( Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣel de θerˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa] ; (Born 1547 (day unknown); died 22 April 1616) [ 2 ] was a Spanish novelist , poet , and playwright . His magnum opus , Don Quixote , considered the first modern European novel , [ 3 ] is a classic of Western literature , and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written. [ 4 ] His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes ("the language of Cervantes"). [ 5 ] He was dubbed El Príncipe de los Ingenios ("The Prince of Wits"). [ 6 ] It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares , Spain . The exact date of his birth is not known, but it is probable that he was born on September 29, the feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel , given the tradition to name a child with the name of the feast day of his birth.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously.
Origem: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre. Luis Fernando Verissimo ( Porto Alegre , 26 de setembro de 1936 ) é um escritor brasileiro . Mais conhecido por suas crônicas e textos de humor , mais precisamente de sátiras de costumes, publicados diariamente em vários jornais brasileiros, Verissimo é também cartunista e tradutor , além de roteirista de televisão, autor de teatro e romancista bissexto. Já foi publicitário e copy desk de jornal. É ainda músico , tendo tocado saxofone em alguns conjuntos. Com mais de 60 títulos publicados, é um dos mais populares escritores brasileiros contemporâneos.
Signature Hermann Hesse ( German pronunciation: [ˈhɛɐ̯man ˈhɛsə] ; July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature . His best-known works include Steppenwolf , Siddhartha , and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi ), each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. Hermann Hesse was born on 2 July 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg , Germany . Both of Hesse's parents served in India at a mission under the auspices of the Basel Mission , a Protestant Christian missionary society.
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer and dramatist . He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series , several stage plays, comics, a computer game , and in 2005 a feature film . Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy 's Hall of Fame. [ 1 ] Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who . A posthumous collection of his work, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula . During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. [ edit ] Early life
Bernard Cornwell OBE (born 23 February 1944) is a British author of historical novels . He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe which were adapted into a series of Sharpe television films . [ edit ] Biography Cornwell was born in London in 1944.
The Saxon Tales is a continuing historical novel series written by the historical novelist Bernard Cornwell about 9th century Britain. The protagonist of the series is Uhtred Ragnarson , sometimes known as Uhtred Uhtredson. Uhtred is born in Northumbria , but captured and adopted by the Danes . The story takes place during the Danish invasion of Britain, where all but one of the English kingdoms is conquered. The story centers on the ruler of Wessex, Alfred , later historically dubbed 'the Great'.
The Warlord Chronicles is a trilogy of books about Arthurian Britain written by Bernard Cornwell (perhaps best known for his Richard Sharpe adventures). The story is written as a mixture of historical fiction and Arthurian mythology . The books have been published by Penguin and Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom and by St Martin's Press in the United States, in hardcover and paperback editions, each with different ISBNs. Once upon a time, in a land that was called Britain, these things happened ... well, maybe.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien , CBE ( / ˈ t ɒ l k iː n / , US / ˈ t oʊ l k iː n / ; [ 1 ] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist , and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings , and The Silmarillion . Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford , from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature there from 1945 to 1959. [ 2 ] He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis —they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings . Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972. After his death, Tolkien's son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion .
1953 The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (a play written in alliterative verse), published with the accompanying essays Beorhtnoth's Death and Ofermod , in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association , volume 6. 1966 The Tolkien Reader ( The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son , On Fairy-Stories , Leaf by Niggle , Farmer Giles of Ham , and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ) 1925 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , co-edited with E.V. Gordon , Oxford University Press , 211 pp.; Revised edition 1967, Oxford , Clarendon Press , 232 pp. 1929 Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad , published in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association , Oxford, volume 14, pp. 104–126. 1932 The Name 'Nodens' , concerning the name Nodens , published in Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire , Oxford, University Press for The Society of Antiquaries.
José de Sousa Saramago , GColSE ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu] ; (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist , poet , playwright and journalist . His works, some of which can be seen as allegories , commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a permanent part of the Western canon ". [ 2 ] Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. [ 3 ] More than two million copies of his books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He founded the National Front for the Defence of Culture (Lisbon, 1992) with Freitas-Magalhães and others. In 1992, the Portuguese government, under Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva , ordered the removal of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ from the European Literary Prize 's shortlist, claiming the work was religiously offensive.
Philippe Masson ( 1928 - 2005 ) est un historien français, agrégé d'histoire et docteur ès-lettres. Il a notamment écrit des ouvrages sur la marine et a été le chef de la section historique de la Marine nationale. Philippe Masson est né en 1928. Professeur d' histoire et de stratégie à l'École supérieure de guerre navale de 1964 à 1993 , il est agrégé d'histoire et docteur ès lettres. Parallèlement, il est le chef de la section historique du Service historique de la Marine à partir de 1965 . Il publie de nombreux ouvrages sur l' histoire militaire et sur la marine militaire et marchande .