Category: Literature

Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born in 1913 in Algeria to a family of modest origins, his father is a workman and his mother is illiterate and partly deaf in…

Simone de Beauvoir

It was at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Paris that Simone de Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre with whom she forged a legendary relationship, “a necessary…

Winston Churchill

Distinguished painter, Nobel Prize for literature, brave soldier, officer, journalist, committed politician, deputy, minister, prime minister, great speaker, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was above all the man…

Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski (Heinrich Karl Bukowski) is an American novelist and poet born in 1920 in Germany and died in 1994 in Los Angeles. A drunk claimed, he…

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway is an American writer and journalist. He was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States and died by suicide on July…

Jacques Prévert

Libertarian poet, subversive, anti-militarist and anticlerical, anarchist and resistant, Jacques Prévert went through life with an eternal cigarette on his lips. His always sad air hid well the…

Romain Gary

The only author to have twice won the Prix Goncourt (the deception will not be known until after his death), France’s highest literary distinction, under the names Romain…