Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn (2 mai 1886 în Mansfeld, Brandenburg - 7 iulie 1956 în Berlin) a fost un doctor, poet și eseist german. Se recunoaste azi ca Benn nu este numai unul dintre marii poeti germani ai vremii, alaturi de Rilke, George, Trakl ci poate celk mai influent, pentru ca a sintetizat o intreaga epoca si un intreg curent. *** Born: 2-May-1886 Birthplace: Mansfeld, Germany Died: 7-Jul-1956 Location of death: Berlin, Germany Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Dahlem Waldfriedhof, Berlin, Germany Gender: Male Religion: Lutheran Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet, Author Nationality: Germany Executive summary: Postwar Germany's T. S. Eliot Military service: German Army (WWI) Wife: (#1, d. 1914) University: University of Marburg University: Medicine, Kaiser Wilhelm Academy, Berlin Georg Büchner Prize 1951 Author of books: Morgue und andere Gedichte (1912, poetry) Fleisch (1917, poetry) Statische Gedichte (1948, poetry) Doppelleben (1950, memoir,...

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Marguerite Duras

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Christian Morgenstern

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928)is an American autobiographer and poet. Having been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton, she is best known for her series of six autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adulthood experiences. The first, best-known, and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), focuses on the first seventeen years of her life, brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award. Angelou has had a long and varied career, holding jobs such as fry cook, dancer, actress, journalist, educator, television producer, and film director. She was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild in the late 1950s. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Angelou has been highly honored for her body of work, including being awarded over 30...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and doctor Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961). The name "Céline" was chosen after his grandmother's first name. Céline is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and World literature. He remains, however, a controversial figure because of anti-Semitic statements published in 1937 and during the Second World War. Only child of Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches and Marguerite-Louise-Céline Guilloux, he was born Louis-Ferdinand Destouches in 1894 at Courbevoie, just outside Paris in the Seine département (now Hauts-de-Seine). His father was a minor functionary in an insurance firm and his mother was a lacemaker. In 1905 he was awarded his Certificat d'études, after which he began working as an apprentice and messenger boy in various trades. Between 1908 and 1910 his parents sent him to Germany and England for a year in each...

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Clément Marot

Clément Marot naît à Cahors en 1496, d\'une mère gasconne et d\'un père originaire de Caen, Jean des Marets, surnommé Marot. Ce père est marchand, mais, à la fin de 1505, il est révoqué par sa corporation. Il quitte alors la région du Quercy et écrit des vers.Comme ces vers plaisent à Michelle de Saubonne, femme du seigneur de Soubise, il est présenté à la reine Anne de Bretagne. Il est bien reçu et devient un des poètes favoris de Louis XII, qu’il accompagne en Italie. Son fils Clément, après avoir été écolier à Paris, est placé par son père, comme page chez Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy. Très vite le jeune Clément Marot, compose des vers.Il traduit Virgile et Lucien. Dès 1515, il offre au nouveau roi, François Ier, un recueil intitulé, Le Temple de Cupido, fait par Maistre Clément Marot, facteur de la Royne. En 1517 ou 1518, il adresse au Roi une Petite Espitre. Le Roi le recommande à sa sœur Marguerite,Duchesse d’Alençon, qui le fait secrétaire de son mari, le duc...

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