Giorgos Seferis was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, in 1900. He attended school in Smyrna and finished his studies at the Gymnasium in Athens. When his family moved to Paris in 1918, Seferis studied law at the University of Paris and became interested in literature. He returned to Athens in 1925 and was admitted to…

Turkish İstanbul adlı kitabımın bir yarısı şehirden söz eder, bir yarısı da yirmi iki yaşıma kadarki hayat hikayemdir. Kitabı yazıp bitirdiğimde aşırı bir hayal kırıklığına kapıldığımı hatırlıyorum. Kendi hayatımda anlatmak istediğim, vazgeçilmez bir hatıra olarak gördüğüm şeylerin onda birini bile İstanbul’a koyamamıştım. Yirmi iki yaşıma kadarki hayatımı özetleyen ve bambaşka hatıralarla kurulmuş yirmi cilt anı…

I was born in Lübeck on June 6, 1875, the second son of a merchant and senator of the Free City, Johann Heinrich Mann, and his wife Julia da Silva Bruhns. My father was the grandson and great-grandson of Lübeck citizens, but my mother first saw the light of day in Rio de Janeiro as…

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, of an old New England family. He was educated at Harvard and did graduate work in philosophy at the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Merton College, Oxford. He settled in England, where he was for a time a schoolmaster and a bank clerk, and eventually literary editor…

Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980) born in Paris in 1905, studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1924 to 1929 and became Professor of Philosophy at Le Havre in 1931. With the help of a stipend from the Institut Français he studied in Berlin (1932) the philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. After further teaching at…

Naipaul is Truly a Nobel Man in a Free State by David Pryce-Jones The Nobel Prize for literature has gone to someone who deserves it. Like the great masters of the past, V.S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it…

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Bio-bibliographic information 1906 – Born in Dublin of Irish parents 1927 – B.A. Trinity College, Dublin 1928-29 – English reader at École Normale Supérieure, Paris 1930 – French reader at Trinity College, Dublin 1938 – Moved to France 1945 – Began writing in French 1989 – Died in Paris Samuel Beckett died…

François Mauriac (1885-1970) was born in Bordeaux. His father, a banker, died when he was eighteen months old, leaving his mother with five children, of which he was the youngest. François grew up in a closely sheltered world, first under the protection of his mother, later in a school run by the Marianites. He studied…

Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. On his father’s side, his grandfather was a prominent liberal intellectual and one of the first authors to write a novel with an expressly Indian theme. Thanks to his grandfather’s extensive library, Paz came into early contact with literature. Like his grandfather, his father was also…