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Albert Camus ( French: [albɛʁ kamy] ( listen ) ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher . His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism .
Albert Camus
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [b] ( Spanish: [miˈɣel de θerˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa] ; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616) [ 2 ] was a Spanish novelist , poet , and playwright . His magnum opus , Don Quixote , considered to be 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 ] En 1569, Cervantes se trasladó a Roma, donde trabajó como ayudante de cámara de Giulio Acquaviva, un rico sacerdote que fue elevado a cardenal el próximo año.. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
Ernest Hemingway
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.
Luis Fernando Verissimo
Hermann Hesse ( German: [ˈhɛɐ̯man ˈhɛsə] ; July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Steppenwolf , Siddhartha , and The Glass Bead Game , each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature . [ edit ] Biography [ edit ] Family background Hermann Hesse was born on 2 July 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg , Germany .
Hermann Hesse
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer , humorist , 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 more than 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 (8 November 1847 – 20 April 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
Bram Stoker
Bernard Cornwell
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 Saxon Stories
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.
The Warlord Chronicles