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MASTERPIECES OF WORLD CULTURE
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J.Franzen
Writer
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Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His third novel, The Corrections (2001), a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His most recent novel, Freedom, was published in August 2010.
Franzen writes for The New Yorker magazine. He is also known for his 1996 Harper's essay "Perchance to Dream" bemoaning the state of literature, and for the 2001 controversy surrounding the selection of The Correction ... Read more >>
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T.Gunn
Poet
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J.Tolkien
Writer
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L.Andriessen
Composer
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N.Afonso
Artist
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Thomson William Gunn was an Anglo-American poet.
He was born in Gravesend, Kent, England. In 1954, the year after his graduation Trinity College, Cambridge, Gunn's first poetry collection, "Fighting Terms", was published. In 1954, Gunn immigrated to the United States to teach writing at Stanford University. From 1958 t ...
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1925 to 19 ...
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Louis Andriessen is one of Europe's most eminent and influential composers. Louis Andriessen (June 6, 1939) is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He was recipient of the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1959. Andriessen was born in Utrecht into a musical family, the son ...
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Nadir Afonso, GOSE (1920, Portugal) is a geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, Nadir Afonso later studied painting in Paris and became one of the pioneers in Kinetic art, working alongside Victor Vasarely, Fernand Léger, Auguste Herbin, and An ...
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