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Pessoa's birthplace: a large flat at São Carlos Square, just in front of Lisbon's opera. Pessoa was born in Lisbon on 13 June 1888. When Pessoa was five, his father, Joaquim de Seabra Pessôa, died of tuberculosis, and less than seven months later his younger brother Jorge, aged one, also died (2 January 1889). [3]
John Donaldson Voelker (June 29, 1903 – March 18, 1991), also known by his pen name Robert Traver, was a noted lawyer, author and fly fisherman from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Born and raised in Ishpeming , he later attended the University of Michigan Law School .
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
"for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel cycle Les Thibault" [42] novel 1938: Pearl Buck (1892–1973) United States: English "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces" [43]
Having a substantial body of work, widely respected and reviewed in major publications, and perhaps often nominated or a finalist for major awards. A pioneering literary figure, possibly for the style or substance of their entire body of work, or for a single novel that was a notable "first" of some kind in U.S. literary history.
The novel appeared first under Nabokov's pen name V. Sirin in the Russian emigre quarterly Sovremennye zapiski and was thereafter published by the emigre publishing house Slovo as "Защита Лужина" (The Luzhin Defense) in Berlin. More than three decades later the novel was translated into English by Michael Scammell in collaboration ...
This is a list of novelists from England writing for adults and young adults.Please add only one novel title or comment on fiction per name. Other genres appear in other lists and on subject's page.
House of the Mann family in Lübeck ("Buddenbrookhaus"), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum. Paul Thomas Mann was born to a hanseatic family in Lübeck, the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and a grain merchant) and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns, a Brazilian woman of German, Portuguese and Native Brazilian ancestry, who emigrated to Germany with her family ...