Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005) - photo 1

Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow, real name Solomon Bellows, is a Jewish American writer and Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winner.

Sol Bellow was born in Canada to Jewish immigrant parents from St. Petersburg, Russia, and grew up in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, majoring in anthropology and sociology. Chicago was the setting for many of his novels of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1993, he took a position in the English Department at Boston University.

Bellow wrote his first book, The Dangling Man (1944), while serving in the Merchant Marine during World War II, and he published the novel The Victim in 1947. Saul Bellow is considered one of the most important Jewish American writers who wrote after World War II. Like his predecessors, he offers a Jewish perspective on the themes of alienation and otherness in the difficult postwar era of fragmentation, translating the Yiddish American experience into English.

Bellow has received the world's highest honors for his works. In 1954, his novel The Adventures of Augie March won the National Book Award for fiction. In 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Humboldt Gift; the International Herzog Literary Award; and the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, France's highest literary honor for non-citizens. In 1976, Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Date and place of birt:10 june 1915, Québec, Canada
Date and place of death:5 april 2005, Brookline, USA
Period of activity: XX, XXI century
Specialization:Educator, Writer
Art style:Post War Art, Realism

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Georg Friedrich Zundel
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Paul Landacre (1893 - 1963)
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Frederick William Hulme (1816 - 1884)
Frederick William Hulme
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Vera Mercer (1936)
Vera Mercer
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Carlo Forcolini (1947)
Carlo Forcolini
1947
Nadezhda Nikolaevna Pashchinskaia-Maksimova (1911 - 1976)
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Quentin Saxby Blake (1932)
Quentin Saxby Blake
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Pieter Oyens (1842 - 1894)
Pieter Oyens
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František Ženíšek (1849 - 1916)
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Oscar Begas (1828 - 1883)
Oscar Begas
1828 - 1883
Graciela Rodo Boulanger (1935)
Graciela Rodo Boulanger
1935
Ehduard Mikhailovich Krimmer (1900 - 1974)
Ehduard Mikhailovich Krimmer
1900 - 1974
Clinton Loveridge (1824 - 1902)
Clinton Loveridge
1824 - 1902
Michelangelo Pistoletto (1933)
Michelangelo Pistoletto
1933
Ottomar Anton (1895 - 1976)
Ottomar Anton
1895 - 1976
Amelie von Dahmen (1866)
Amelie von Dahmen
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