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André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a prolific French writer and author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics.
André; a Tragedy in Five Acts is a play by William Dunlap, first produced at the Park Theatre in New York City on March 30, 1798, by the Old American Company, published in that same year together with a collection of historic documents relating to the case of the title character, Major John André, the British officer who was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780, for his role in the treason of ...
André Gide had only been nominated for the prize once before in 1946. [4] In 1947, the Nobel committee received 43 nominations for 35 writers including T. S. Eliot (awarded in 1948), Boris Pasternak (awarded in 1958), Teixeira de Pascoaes, Jules Romains, Angelos Sikelianos, Carl Sandburg, Georges Duhamel, Ignazio Silone, Benedetto Croce, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Arnulf Øverland, Johan ...
poet, author, typographer The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, Ursa Major: Barry Broadfoot: 1926 2003 historian Six War Years, The Immigrant Years: Hélène Brodeur: 1923 2010 historical fiction Les chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario, The Saga of Northern Ontario: Eve Brodlique: 1867 1949 author, journalist A Training School for ...
In 1965, when Lloyd Webber was a 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer, he was introduced to the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Their first collaboration was The Likes of Us , an Oliver! -inspired musical based on the true story of Thomas John Barnardo . [ 24 ]
The Immoralist is a recollection of events that Michel narrates to his three visiting friends. One of those friends solicits job search assistance for Michel by including in a letter to Monsieur D. R., Président du Conseil, a transcript of Michel's first-person account.
The play, presenting the final stage of the writer-composer's relationship, was adapted five times by Polish Television: in 1963 (with Antonina Gordon-Górecka as Sand and Gustaw Holoubek as Chopin), in 1972 (with Halina Mikołajska and Leszek Herdegen), in 1980 (with Anna Polony and Michał Pawlicki), in 1999 (with Joanna Szczepkowska, who ...
Sir Arnold Wesker FRSL (24 May 1932 – 12 April 2016) was an English dramatist.He was the author of 50 plays, four volumes of short stories, two volumes of essays, much journalism and a book on the subject, a children's book, some poetry, and other assorted writings.