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32. Biography Lidin Vladimir Germanovich (1894 – 1979) Lidin Vladimir Germanovich (1894 – 1979), the prose writer. He was born on February 3 (15th century) in Moscow to a merchant family. He received a good home education, which enabled him to successfully study at the Moscow University, where he studied oriental studies (Oriental studies) and jurisprudence. In his student years […]...
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34. Biography of Margaret Atwood Margaret Elinor Atwood is a Canadian writer and poetess, who was born in 1939. Her literary work addresses contemporary issues, such as: feminism, politics, the fate of Canada and Canadian literature, and the nature of mass society. Her most famous novel, The History of Slaves, is an American anti-utopia about the emergence of the rule […]...
35. Biography Tokareva Victoria Samoilovna (born 1937) Tokareva Victoria Samoilovna (born 1937), writer, playwright. Born November 20 in Leningrad in the family of an engineer. During the war the Tokarev family was evacuated to the Urals. After returning to Leningrad, the future writer graduated from the ten-year school, then entered the music school (1956 – 60). Having married, she moves […]...
36. Biography of Taras Shevchenko Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko is an outstanding poet, an artist. Born March 9, 1814 in the Kiev province in the village of Morintsy. First in Shevchenko’s biography the mother was lost, then in 1825 her father died. So began his hard, harsh life. Soon he learned to read and write, began to draw a little. In […]...
37. Biography of Robert Kampen Robert Kampen is a Flemish painter who, together with van Eyck, is considered the founder of the Dutch school. Kampen’s biography is identified with the Flemish master because of the three flaps of the altar in Frankfurt am Main. Earlier it was mistakenly believed that these paintings came from the city of Liege. Kampen was […]...
38. Biography Wilde Oscar (Wilde) (16.10.1854, Dublin, 30.11.1900, Paris), an English writer and critic. Irish by nationality. He graduated from Oxford University (1879). The collection of “Poems” (1881) was a success. Under the influence of J. Ruskin’s lectures on art, he was carried away by the ideas of the so-called aesthetic movement, preached the need for the revival of […]...
39. Biography Efremov Ivan Antonovich (1907 – 1972) Efremov Ivan Antonovich (1907 – 1972), the prose writer. He was born on April 9 (22nd century) in the village of Vyritsa, St. Petersburg Province. The youth of the future writer fell on the years of civil war: the homeless teenager came to the autor of the Red Guards, went to Perekop […]...
40. Biography of Goncharov Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov is a great Russian writer, the author of the famous novels Oblomov and Obryv, a literary critic and publicist, as well as the owner of the civil rank “The Actual State Counselor.” Early years. Education and Career He was born on June 6, 1812 in Simbirsk, in a merchant family. At the […]...