Tag: Nobel Prize

Luigi Pirandello

(1867–1936) Works: • A vilanza (la bilancia); Cappiddazzu paga tuttu (Italian) • Cappidazzu paga tuttu (Italian) • Come prima meglio di prima (Italian) • Enrico IV (Italian) • L’innesto (Italian) • L’umorismo (Italian) • La ragione degli altri (Italian) •…

Ernest Hemingway

(1899–1961) Ernest Miller Hemingway Works: • In our time (English) • Three Stories & Ten Poems (English) Born July 21 1899 Oak Park, IL (USA) Died July 2 1961 Ketchum, ID (USA) Cause of death Suicide Occupation Journalist Novelist Occupation…

Albert Camus

(1913–1960) Works: • Caligula (1938) • L’Étranger (1942) ◊ The Stranger (English) • La Chute (1956) ◊ The Fall (English) • La Peste (1947) ◊ The Plague (English) • Le Malentendu (1943) • Le Mythe de Sysiphe (1942) ◊ The Myth of…

Thomas Mann

(1875–1955) Paul Thomas Mann Works: • Der Tod in Venedig (German) Filmography as Writer: Morte a Venezia 1971 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Silvana Mangano   Born June 6 1875 Lübeck (Germany) Died August 12 1955 Zürich (Switzerland) Cause of…

William Faulkner

(1897–1962) William Cuthbert Faulkner Works: • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (English) • Early Prose and Poetry (English) • The Sound and the Fury (1929) Quotes: • William Faulkner: Quotations Born September 25 1897 New Albany, MS (USA) Died July 6 1962 Byhalia, MS…

George Bernard Shaw

(1856–1950) Works: • Androcles and the Lion (1912) • Arms and the Man (1894) • Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce (1916) • Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch (1921) • Candida (1898) • Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) • Fanny’s First Play (1911) • Heartbreak House (1913-1916)…

T. S. Eliot

(1888–1965) Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM Works: • Eeldrop and Appleplex (1934) • Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry (1917) • Pascal’s Pensées (1958) • Poems (1920) • Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) • The Waste Land (1922) Quotes: • T.…