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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born and
American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.
He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times
and he received the Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution
to American Letters in 1990.
He was born 10th, june of 1915 in Quebec, inside a jewish family, when
he was only nine his family, which was from rusa, moved to Chicago. He
participated in the 2nd mundial war as a soldier, studied in Northwestern
University and finally he was teacher in Chicago University. He was married five
times and he is considered one of the most influential writers in the XX
century.
“Dangling Man” (Written in 1944) was his first novel, into this we can
see how a young man is worried about the idea that he can be mobilized to the
war in every moment. After this he was awarded with the Guggenheim Grant, and
because of this he could travel around Europe, where he was influenced by many
cultural movements, for example: picaroon novel. One of his most used topics
can be the modern humanity threatened with lost her identity but not destroyed
spiritually yet, some books with this topic can be “Carpe Diem”,”Henderson the
Rain King”; both awarded with the National Book Award (USA). Then he wrote “Humboldt’s legacy” considered one f
the best novels during XX century and awarded with Pulitzer prize and with the
Nobel Prize.
● Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro Was born in
wingham, Ontario, Canada she is a canadian narrator and one of the best
actually writers in English. In 2013 was awarded with the Nobel Prize. She
first lived in his father’s farm during an economical crisis, this will be one
of the most important influences for her.
When she was studying at
Western Ontario University had to work as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a
library clerk to pay her university studies. She met James Munro, they got
married and moved to Ontario. After she had divorced she got married with
Gerald Fleming and She has become a writer.
Munro's highly acclaimed first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won
the Governor General's Award, then Canada's highest literary prize. That
success was followed by “Lives of Girls and Women” (1971), a collection of
interlinked stories. In 1978, Munro's collection of interlinked stories “Who Do
You Think You Are?” was published (titled “The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and
Rose in the United States”). This book earned Munro a second Governor General's
Literary Award.In 1980 Munro held the position of writer in residence at both
the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland.
Munro has published a short-story
collection at least once every four years, most recently in 2001, 2004, 2006,
2009, and 2012. First versions of Munro's stories have appeared in journals
such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Grand Street, Harper's Magazine, Mademoiselle,
and The Paris Review. Her collections
have been translated into thirteen languages.On 10 October 2013, Munro was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, cited as a "master of the
contemporary short story". She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to
receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, (born November 18,
1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and
environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and
Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has also won the Booker Prize five
times. In 2001 she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a
founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization
that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. Among innumerable
contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin
Poetry Prize.
Atwood is also the inventor, and developer, of the LongPen and
associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents.
She is the Co-Founder and a Director of Syngrafii Inc.However she is best known
for her work as a novelist, she has also published fifteen books of poetry.
Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales. Atwood has
published short stories in Alphabet,
Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, and many other magazines. She
has also published four collections of stories and three collections of
unclassifiable short prose works.
She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson, after they
moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter Eleanor Jess
Atwood Gibson was born in 1976.The family returned to Toronto in 1980.
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry,
children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her
novels, which include The Edible Woman
(1969), The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the
prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Her latest work is a book of short stories
called Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
(2014). Her newest novel, MaddAddam (2013),is the final volume in a three-book
series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009).