BIOGRAPHIES. GROUP: ENGLISH 2 morning & afternoon Stephen King, was born on 21 September 1947, in Portland, Maine, USA. He was the second son of Donald King and Nellie Ruth. After living in Indiana and Connecticut, the family moved to Durham, hometown of his mother. Stephen, studied at Durham Elementary and then at Lisbon Falls High School. He started writing at an early age, based on films and comic books he had seen. His first story was published in Comics Review Magazine in 1965. The original title was "I was Teenage Grave Robber", but was changed by the publisher to: "In a Half-Word of Terror". Between 1966 and 1971, he studied English at the University of Maine and wrote a column titled "King's Garbage Truck", in a publication of the institution. In the university library, he met Tabitha Sprice, also a novelist, and with whom he married in 1971. In 1973, King wrote his first novel, "Carrie," the story of a tormented teenager who avenged her companions. The book was a great success, followed by "The Mystery of Salem's Lot", "The Shining", "Rage", "It" among many others, all adapted to the cinema. Currently lives Bangor, Maine, but spends long seasons in Florida. He is still married to his first wife, Tabitha Sprice, and they have three children, Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Phillip, the last two writers. In 1996, King won the O. Henry Award for his story "The Man in the Black Suit". In 2003, he was honored with the National Book Award career, which caused a stir among the literary community by the writer's choice, especially by literary critic Harold Bloom. The writer has stated that writing is more for him a passion than a job. Lourdes Chavarrías Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Agatha Christie Her real name was Agatha Mary Clarissa. She was born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay Devon, England, Being daughter of American father and British mother, she could never get US citizenship because of her mother´s opposition. She married twice. Her first husband was Archibald Christie (1914-1929) and the second Max Mallowan (1930-1976). She always lived in England. She was an indefatigable writer of detective novels with the name of Agatha Christie and also sentimental with the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. She participated in the First World War as a nurse and learned to use all kinds of mixtures of toxic substances. She used this knowledge to put into their crime and mystery novels as “Murder on the Orient Express” and characters like Hercules Poirot. She received, among other prizes, the title - Lady of the British Empire- in the year 1931. She died on January 12, 1976 at the age of 85 in Winterbrook House, Wallingford Oxfordshine. England. Josep Cortadella Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Caterina Albert i Paradís known under the pseudonym Victor Català, was born on 11 September in L´Escala (Alt Empordà ). She soon began to paint, to write and to read all kinds of books. When she was fourteen years old she wrote " Parricidi ". In 1898 she won a prize for her monologue " La Infanticida " but there was a scandal because she was a woman. After that she changed her name under a male pseudonym : " Victor Català ". Her best novel was " Solitud ", this novel is a text about the countryside life and the freedom of women. She died on 27 January 1966 in L´Escala where she lived all her life. Concepció Ferrer Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Josep Pla He was born in Palafrugell on 8 March 1897. His family were small landowners. He studied in Girona and he later went to the university of Barcelona. He finished law in 1919 and he worked as a journalist in several countries. He wrote about different themes. After Spanish War he collaborated in magazines too. He won the gold medal of the Generalitat in 1980. He died in Llofriu on 23 April 1981. Rosa Mateo Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Miguel Hernández was born in Orihuela on 30th October 1910. He lived in Orihuela although sometimes he went to Madrid. He went to school from 1918 to 1923 because he had work as a goat shepherd to help the family. Later he wrote and collaborated in literary magazines. He only won a literary prize. He was a poet of the generation of 36 and continuation of 27. He had two sons but one died early. He died in prison on 28th march 1942, aged 31. Francisco Peinado Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Jane Austen was born on 16th December in 1775 in the village of Steventon, in Hampshire, in the south of England. Her father was the clergyman of the church in Steventon. She had six brothers and one sister. She was a kind and intelligent woman and often laughed. She read poetry and novels. She died on 18 July 1817. She was 41 years old. She never got married. She didn’t write many books, but she is one of the most famous British writers. Her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published after she had died. Millions of people read her books. Many films have been made of her stories. Paqui Serrano Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Jesús Moncada i Estruga Jesús Moncada was born on 1 December 1941 in Mequinenza (Zaragoza) , and he died on 13 July 2005 in Barcelona. He was a writer in catalan language. He studied education in Zaragoza. When he finished his studies he began to work in Mequinenza as a teacher. In 1960 Mequinenza disappeared under the water of the marsh of Ribarroja. In that year Moncada moved to Barcelona and worked as a painter for a year. In 1961 he began to work at the publisher Muntaner & Simon. His friend, the writer Pere Calders, encouraged him to write with the catalan of the.Strip. Mequinenza was the scene of his stories. In 1968 he wrote "Cami de sirga" one of his best books. It narrates the last days before the city of Mequinenza disappeared. It was translated into 15 languages. For his work he received many awards among others : In 1989 the City of Barcelona award " In 2001 the "Cross of San Jordi". Marco Antonio Estrada Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Joana Raspall She was born on 1 july 1913. She moved wiht her family to Sant Feliu of Llobregat in 1916. She studied librarianship in Barcelona .She got married to Antoni Cahue and she had three daughters and one son. She worked as a librarian and Catalan teacher. After that she began to write. Her work includes poetry for young children, antonym and synonym together with Marti i Pol, theatre for adults and many works. She won many awards in catalan language. She died on 4 december 2013 in Sant Feliu de Llobregat. Carme Gómez Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 in Steventon, England. She was the seventh daughter of the Reverend George Austen, locality Anglican pastor. The mother's name was Cassandra Leigh. Jane Austen was a prominent Britsh novelist. She wrote several books, among them the best known are Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma.. The irony that she uses to endow comedy to her novels, makes Jane Austen to be considered among the classics of English novelists. In 1809 she moved to Chawton with her mother and sister. Jane Austen didin't get married. She died on 18 July 1817 in Winchester England. Dolores Rodríguez Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Elvis Presley was born on 8 of January 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, United States. He lived in Memphis, Tenessee.. Elvis worked in several things: Soldier, Actor, Musician and Singer. When Elvis was only nineteen years old a song of him was popular. In 1958 he did the military service, after that he returned with his artistic career. On May 1, 1967 he married Priscilla Presley in Las Vegas, Nevada. On the1st of February 1968 was born their daughter who was called Lisa Marie Presley. He died at the age of 37 on August 16, 1977,in Memphis, Tenessee. Laura Álvarez Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Joanne Rowling was born on 31 of July 1965 in Yate, South Gloucestershine, United KIngdom. She moved to Winterbourne at the age of 4. When she was a child she enjoyed writing fantastic stories. At the age of 9 she moved to Tutshill, Gloucestershine. She moved to Oporto to work as an English teacher. She married Jorge Arantes, journalist. They had one daughter, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes. They separated in 1993 and she moved to Edimburgo with her sister. She wrote the first book in 1997,(Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone). In 1998 Warner Bros made the film of this book. She wrote seven books more about Harry Potter. Her last book of fantastic stories is Fantastic beasts and where to find them. Montserrat Lázaro Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was born on 8th July 1926 in Zurich , Switzerland. She was the first of triplets. When she was young, in 1945, during the World War II she was volunteer in Zurich and later in some countries of Europe. In Majdanek, Poland, she visited the extermination camps and there she saw many, many butterflies drawn on the walls, in the beds etc... but she didn't understand what they meant. In 1957 she graduated in medicine at the Zurich University and there she met her husband Emmanuel Ross. In 1958 she moved to New York. She graduated in psychiatry at the Colorado University in 1963. She started working with mentally ill and then terminal patients at the University Hospital of Chicago. She gave seminars where terminal patients spoke to the attendants of their situation All her studies on the terminally ill today are part of the training of medical students in many countries. In 1969 she wrote her first book ¨ On Death and Dying¨ the New York Public Library considers this book one of the most important literary works of the 2Oth century. She wrote 21 more books over her research with terminals patients and the death. Her most famous book is ¨Wheel of Life¨ her biography where she told how she discovered the death doesn't exist , nobody dies. Like the wonderful butterflies leave the cocoon of silk we leave our body. She had two children, Barbara and Kenneth. She divorced in 1979. She was the recipient of twenty honorary degrees. In 1999 she was considered one of the greatest minds of the century by magazine TIME. Elisabeth ¨didn't¨ die on 24 August 2004 in Scottsdale, Arizona , US. Francisca López Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Josep Maria Folch i Torres was born on 29 December, 1880 in Barcelona, Spain. He wrote in some magazines and directed others, like Patufet. On 11 September, 1901, he was arrested at a protest rally with other youth of the Unió Catalanista in front of the monument to Rafael Casanova. In 1905 he had to flee to exile to France but returned to Barcelona after three years One of his sons died in the Spanish civil war. He wrote novel and theatre especially for young people and adolescents. "Les aventures d'en Massagran" was one of his most popular novels. He died on 15 December, 1950 and is buried in the cemetery of Montjuic. Mercè Pons Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Ken Follett was born on 5 june 1949 in
Cardiff, Gales. He moved to London when he was 10 years old. In 1967 he studied philosophy at a College in London. He worked as a journalist for Shouth Wales Echo and later By Evening News in London. In 1968 he married his first wife Mary. In 1978 with the novel " La isla de las tormentas" he became famous. In the 80's he met his second wife Barbara Follet. At the beginning of the 90's he wrote 4 historical novels "Pilares de la tierra, La caída de los gigantes, El invierno del mundo and Los límites de la eternidad". Anna Rovira Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Robert Allen Zimmerman was born on 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. His family was jewish and his grandparents were emigrants from the Soviets Republics. He married in 1965 the Playboy bunny Sara Lownds, they had four children. They divorced in 1977. e won some Grammys, in 2007 the award "Principe de Asturias de las Artes" and in 2016 The Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote "Blowing in the wind", "Like a Rolling Stone", "The time they are a changing", "Don't think twice it's all right"... He wrote hundreds of songs. Today he writes and
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sings songs or poems. Everybody knows him as Bob
Dylan. Pere Vicens Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Ernest M. Hemingway was born on
21 July 1899 in Illinois EE.UU. He was one important writer of novels and short stories of the 20th century. His father was a doctor and his mother a musician. He married four times and had three children. Ernest M. Hemingway won the Pulizter Price in 1952 and the Nobel Prize in 1954. He died on 2 July 1961. The cause was a suicide. After his death he published several books and was considered as literary classic in the United States. Carme Artal Salcedo Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Joana Raspall was born on 1 July 1913 in Barcelona. She estudied at the School of Librarians and got the title of librarianship. In 1932 she moved to Sant Feliu de Llobregat. In the Spanish Civil War she worked as a librarian and she saved many Catalan books. In 1993 she won the gold medal of Sant Feliu city. She died there at the age of 100 on 4 December 2013. She wrote many books and won lots of awards. In her free time she wrote children's stories. Antonio Cobos Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Louis Braille was born on 4 January 1809 in Coupvray, near Paris. He was Blind. He was a French professor, famous as the inventor in 1829 of the Braille reading and writing system for the blind (Louis Braille).. In 1819 he moved to París,he went to study, in the same institute he worked as a professor and had an avocation as a musician. Inspired by Charles Barbier, Braille constructed a new method specifically for the needs of the blind. He presented his work in 1824. Braille died in Paris as a result of tuberculosis on 6 January 1852. Anna Maria Duran Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Maria Tecla Artemiria Montessori Montessori was born on 31 August 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy. She was an engineer (14 years), biologist, doctor, anthropologist and finally studied philosophy. She developed a method known as method Montessori, which was initially applied in primary schools, Italians and later all over the world. In 1907 she inaugurated the first Casa dei Bambini. It was a revolution. In 1933 she had to leave Italy because its method collided with the educational system of that time. She lived in Spain, Holland and India. Where she developed various training programs for teachers. For these works, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on three occasions. In 1947, she returned to Italy. She devoted himself to the reorganization of schools. Montessori, died on May 6, 1952. Núria Figueras Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Ken Follet was born on 5 June 1949, in Cardiff, Gales. He lived there until his family moved to London when he was ten. In 1967 he entered the University College of London, where he studied Philosophy. He married his first wife, Mary, in 1968. In 1970 he became deputy director of Everest Books. Follet began to write stories, at first like hobby in the afternoons and at the weekends. The success came with the publication in 1978, of the Island of stories, which made him internationally famous. In 1982, in the course of his political activities, he met Barbara Follet, a Labour Party member, who he married. He wrote many books: The winter of the world;The fall of the giants;The pillars of the earth Joaquina Machio Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Isabel Allende, daughter of Chilean parents, was born on 2 August 1942 in Lima (Perú). She belongs to Literary Movement of Magical Realism. These writers want to show the fantastic and unreal as something common and ordinary. She lived and studied in different countries because her father was Diplomatic. When she was a girl, she wanted to be a ballet dancer. She started work as a journalist when she was 17 years old. She married and divorced twice and she had two children. In 1975 she and her family exiled in Venezuela for 13 years. In this period Isabel wrote her first novel: The house of the spirits. She's the author of many novels and her books are translated in many languages. In 2010 she won the National Prize of Literature of Chile and she's member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2004. Now she lives in California and has the American nationality. M. Carme Resina Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia I like Antonio Muñoz Molina. He is an excellent writer. He was born on 10 January 1956 in Ubeda, Jaén. He wrote many novels and won many prizes. In 1987 he won the prize of Criticism. In 1991 he won the Planet Prize for The Polish Rider, and in 2013 he won the Príncipe de Asturias prize. He moved to New York and was president of the Cervantes Institute. Now he lives in New York with his wife. Miguel Aguilar Enllaç a l’article en català de la Viquipèdia
Samuel L. Clemens, known by the pseudonym of Mark Twain was born on 30 November 1835 in Missouri (USA). He left school without finishing Elementary 5th at the age of 11. The following year he worked as an apprentice printer, then as typeset and in the drafting of articles for the newspaper of his brother Orion. Twain moved to San Francisco in 1864. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon, they had three daughters. During the years 1870 to 1880, Twain and his family spent summer holidays in Elmira (New York). He also made two trips to Europe. He was a popular writer, speaker and American humorist. He wrote works of great success as The Prince and the Pauper or A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, but he es known to write The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In 1995 Twain received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Oxford. Twain died at the age of 74 on 21 April 1910. Maritza Vilela
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