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Federico Garcia-Lorca

Federico García Lorca (n. 5 iunie 1898, Fuente Vaqueros, Granada - d. 18 august 1936, între Víznar și Alfacar, ibidem) a fost un, poet, prozator și dramaturg spaniol, cunoscut și pentru talentul său în alte domenii ale artei. Încadrat în generația lui 27 a literaturii spaniole, este cel mai popular și influent scriitor spaniol din secolul XX. Ca dramaturg este considerat una dintre figurile de referință ale teatrului spaniol din secolul XX, alături de Valle-Inclán și Buero Vallejo. A murit executat în timpul Războiului Civil din Spania (1936-1939), datorită simpatiei sale pentru Frontul Național și condiției sale de homosexual declarat. S-a născut în municipiul Fuente Vaqueros dn Granada (Spania), în sânul unei familii înstărite, pe 5 iunie 1898 și a fost botezat Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca. Tatăl său a fost Don Federico García Rodríguez, un moșier, iar mama sa, Doña Vicenta Lorca, profesoară, a fost cea care i-a...

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Emily Dickinson

Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts, the second daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Emily, Austin (her older brother) and her younger sister Lavinia were nurtured in a quiet, reserved family headed by their authoritative father Edward. Throughout Emily’s life, her mother was not "emotionally accessible," the absence of which might have caused some of Emily’s eccentricity. Being rooted in the puritanical Massachusetts of the 1800’s, the Dickinson children were raised in the Christian tradition, and they were expected to take up their father’s religious beliefs and values without argument. Later in life, Emily would come to challenge these conventional religious viewpoints of her father and the church, and the challenges she met with would later contribute to the strength of her poetry. The Dickinson family was prominent in Amherst. In fact, Emily’s grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, was one of the founders...

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John James Osborne

English dramatist. He began his theatrical career as an actor and playwright in provincial English repertory theaters. Osborne\'s plays usually focus on an individual character and the sheer force of his language rather than on action. His first commercial success was Look Back in Anger (1956), concerning a restless and vociferous young man of the working class who is at war with himself and society; it became the seminal work for the so-called angry young men. His other plays depict the frustration of living without hope in a world filled with false values. Among Osborne\'s other plays are The Entertainer (1957), Luther (1961), Inadmissible Evidence (1964), A Patriot for Me (1965), The End of Me Old Cigar (1974), Watch It Come Down (1976), and Déjà vu (1991). He also wrote the screenplay for Tom Jones (1963).

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Robert Louis Stevenson

13 noiembrie 1850 - 3 decembrie 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson was born to Thomas and Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850. From the beginning he was sickly. Through much of his childhood he was attended by his faithful nurse, Alison Cunningham, known as Cummy in the family circle. She told him morbid stories about the Covenanters (the Scots Presbyterian martyrs), read aloud to him Victorian penny-serial novels, Bible stories, and the Psalms, and drilled the catechism into him, all with his parents' approval. Thomas Stevenson was quite a storyteller himself, and his wife doted on their only child, sitting in admiration while her precocious son expounded on religious dogma. Stevenson inevitably reacted to the morbidity of his religious education and to the stiffness of his family's middle-class values, but that rebellion would come only after he entered Edinburgh University.

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Harry Martinson

Poet, prozator și memorialist, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în 1974. Născut în 1904 la Jamshog, Suedia. Rămâne de mic orfan și e preluat de diferite instituții de ocrotire a copilului. La 16 ani plecă pe mare și timp de șase ani lucrează ca marinar sau ca muncitor în mai multe țări. Aceste călătorii îi vor servi ca sursă de inspirație. Ultimul său roman, "Vagen till klockrike" este dedicat în întregime relațiilor dintre oamenii "așezați" și cei rătăcitori, așa cum i-a cunoscut el însuși. Moare în 1978. Harry Martinson (n.6 mai 1904, Jämshög, Suedia – d. 11 februarie 1978, Stockholm) este un scriitor suedez, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în 1974

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Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, to a distinguished aristocratic family. His parents, Marquis Joseph-Toussaint and Marie-Francoise (née Le Nepvou de Carfort) were not rich, however, and were financially supported by Marie's aunt, Mademoiselle de Kerinou. His father became obsessed with the idea he could restore the family fortune by finding the lost treasure of the Knights of Malta (Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, 16th century Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, was his ancestor), which had reputedly been buried near Quintin during the French Revolution. Consequently, he spent large sums of money buying land, excavating it and then selling it at a loss when he failed to find anything of value. The young Villiers' education was troubled (he attended over half a dozen different schools) but from an early age his family...

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