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Luigi Pirandello(1867-1936) was born in Girgenti, Sicily. He studied philology at Rome and at Bonn and wrote a dissertation on the dialect of his native town (1891). From 1897 to 1922 he was professor of aesthetics and stylistics at the Real Istituto di Magistere Femminile at Rome. Pirandello’s work is impressive by its sheer volume.…

Vicente Aleixandre was born in Sevilla (Spain) on April 26, 1898. He spent his childhood in Malaga and he has lived in Madrid since 1909. Studied law at the University of Madrid and at the Madrid School of Economics. Beginning in 1925 he has completely devoted himself to literature. His first book of poems, Ambit,…

Works in Italian Poetry Mal giocondo, 1889 Pasqua di Gea, 1891 Elegie renane, 1895 La Zampogna, 1901 Fuor di chiave, 1912   Short fiction Amori senza amore, 1894 Quand’ero matto, 1902 Beffe della morte e della vita. – 2 vol. – 1902-1903 Bianche e nere, 1904 Erma bifronte, 1906 La vita nuda, 1910 Terzetti, 1912…

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  Presentation Speech by Dr. Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel prizewinner in literature, Vicente Aleixandre, is hard to understand and in one way controversial. The latter may be due to the former. For even his devoted admirers offer varying…

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French Notice biobibliographique Günter Grass est né en 1927 à Dantzig-Langfuhr, de parents germano-polonais. Après avoir servi sous les drapeaux pendant la guerre et avoir été prisonnier des Américains de 1944 à 1946, il a travaillé comme ouvrier agricole et mineur, puis a étudié les arts plastiques à Düsseldorf et à Berlin. De 1956 à…

French Notice biobibliographique Mario Vargas Llosa est né le 28 mars 1936 à Arequipa au Pérou, fils de Ernesto Vargas Maldonado et de Dora Llosa Ureta. Après le divorce de ses parents, il passe son enfance avec sa mère et son grand-père maternel dans la ville de Cochabamba en Bolivie. Comme le grand-père a une…