Tag: novelist

Voltaire

(1694–1778) François-Marie Arouet Works: • A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (English) • A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 2 (English) • A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 3 (English) • A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 4 (English) • A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (English) •…

Denis Diderot

(1713–1784) Works: • Ceci n’est pas un conte (French) • Entretien d’un père avec ses enfants (French) • L’oiseau blanc: conte bleu (French) • Jacques le fataliste et son maître (French) • La religieuse (French) • Le neveu de Rameau…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(1712–1778) Works: • A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (English) • Emile (English) • Émile eli Kasvatuksesta (Finnish) • Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire (French) • Quotes and Images From The Confessions (English)…

Anton Chekhov

(1860–1904) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Works: • Avioliittoja (Finnish) • Der Bär (German) • Der persische Orden und andere Grotesken (German) • Ein Heiratsantrag (German) • Eine langweilige Geschichte (German) • Eno Vanja (Finnish) • Ivanoff (English) • Kaksikymmentä (Finnish) •…

Joseph Conrad

(1857–1924) Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski Works: • A Personal Record (1912) • A Set of Six (1908) • Almayer’s Folly (1895) • Amy Foster (1901) • An Outcast of the Islands (1896) • Chance: A Tale in Two Parts (1913)…

Charles Bukowski

(1920–1994) Henry Charles Bukowski, born Heinrich Karl Bukowski Works: • Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail (1960) • It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (1963) • Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965) • Crucifix in…

André Malraux

(1901–1976) See also: • Musée d’art moderne André Malraux (Le Havre) • Place André-Malraux (Paris) Born November 3 1901 Paris (France) Died November 23 1976 Créteil (France) Occupation Novelist Writer Awards Croix de guerre 1939-1945 Prix Goncourt

Gertrude Stein

(1874–1946) Gertrude Stein in Art: Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Réunion à la campagne 1909 Musée Picasso, Paris     Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Gertrude Stein 1905–1906 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     Works acquired by her: Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Canal du Midi 1898 Museo…

Tomás Calleja

(1922–2018) Tomás Calleja Guijarro Filmography as Actor: Amar en tiempos revueltos Season 1 (1936–1945) 2005–2006 Starring: Ana Turpin, Rodolfo Sancho   Born December 31 1922 Navares de Ayuso, Segovia (España) Died August 3 2018 Segovia (España) Occupation Actor Archaeologist Occupation Novelist Writer

Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban

(1561–1626) Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban also known as Lord Verulam Works: • Bacon’s Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients (English) • Filosofiset mietelmät (Finnish) • Novum Organum (English) • Of Gardens (English) • The Advancement of Learning…