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This document provides summaries of texts and authors from Europe, including: 1. A short story called "Hazaran" by French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. Le Clezio is known for over 40 works and winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. 2. Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafon's blog fiction "Kiss". Zafon is known for young adult novels including "The Prince of Mist". 3. The sudden fiction "The Red Fox Fur Coat" by Portuguese author Teolinda Gersao, who has written over a dozen books and won several literary prizes. 4. The sudden fiction "Blood of a Mole" by Bul

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21st Report

This document provides summaries of texts and authors from Europe, including: 1. A short story called "Hazaran" by French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. Le Clezio is known for over 40 works and winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. 2. Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafon's blog fiction "Kiss". Zafon is known for young adult novels including "The Prince of Mist". 3. The sudden fiction "The Red Fox Fur Coat" by Portuguese author Teolinda Gersao, who has written over a dozen books and won several literary prizes. 4. The sudden fiction "Blood of a Mole" by Bul

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REPRESENTATIVE

TEXTS AND
AUTHORS FROM
EUROPE
1. HAZARAN (short story) by Jean-Marie
Gustave Le Clezio (France), translated by
Patricia E. Frederick
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (April 13,
1940) usually identified as J. M. G. Le
Clézio, is a France writer and professor. The
author of over 40 works, he was awarded
the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le
Procès- Verbal and the 2007 Nobel Prize in
Literature for his life's work, as an "author of
new departures, poetic adventure and
sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity
beyond and below the reigning civilization".
2. KISS (blog fiction) by
Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Spain)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (September 25, 1964)

Ruiz Zafón was born in the City of Barcelona.


Growing up in Spain, he began his working life
bymaking money in advertising. His grandparents
had worked in a factory and his father soldinsurance.
In the 1990s Ruiz Zafón moved to Los Angeles
where he worked briefly in screenwriting. He is fluent
in English. Ruiz Zafón's first novel, El Príncipe de la
Niebla (The Prince ofMist, 1993), earned the Edebé
literary prize fosr young adult fiction.
He is also the author of
threeadditional young adult
novels, El palacio de la
medianoche (1994), Las luces
de septiembre(1995) and
Marina (1999). The English
version of El Príncipe de la
Niebla was published in 2010.
3. The Red Fox Fur Coat (sudden
fiction) by Teolinda Gersao (Portugal)
Teolinda Gersao (January 30, 1940)

Teolinda Gersão is a Portuguese writer. Born in


Coimbra, she studied at the Universities of Coimbra,
Tübingen and Berlin. She also taught at the Technical
University of Berlin, LisbonbUniversity, and the
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, among others. A full-
time writer since the mid-1990s, Gersao is the author
of more than a dozen books. She has won several
literary prizes forher work. Her novel The Word Tree
set in colonial Mozambique, was translated into
English byMargaret Jull Costa.
4. BLOOD OF A MOLE (sudden fiction)
by Zdravka Evtimola (Bulgaria)
Zdravka Evtimola (July 24, 1959)

Zdravka Evtimova (born in Pernik, Bulgaria) is a


contemporary Bulgarian writer. She has fourshort story
collections and four novels published in Bulgarian. Her
short stories have appeared inmany international literary
journals. Some of her short story collections were
translated into otherlanguages. As well as being an
author, Zdravka works as a literary translator from
English, Frenchand German. Zdravka Evtimova has
translated more than 25 novels by English, American
andCanadian authors into Bulgarian language.
5. ATLANTIS - A LOST SONNET
( poem ) by Eavan Boland (Ireland)
Eavan Boland ( September 24, 1944)

Eavan Boland is an Irish poet, author, and professor. She


is currently a professor at StanfordUniversity, where she
has taught since 1996. Her work deals with the Irish
national identity, andthe role of women in Irish history. A
number of poems from Boland's poetry career are studied
byIrish students who take the Leaving Certificate. She is a
recipient of the Lannan Literary Awardfor Poetry. Eavan
Boland's first book of poetry was New Territory published
in 1967 with Dublinpublisher Allen Figgis.
This was followed by The War Horse (1975), In
Her Own Image (1980)and Night Feed (1982),
which established her reputation as a writer on
the ordinary lives of womenand on the difficulties
faced by women poets in a male-dominated
literary world.
6. FROM "LATE" (poem) by
Gottfried Benn (Germany)
Gottfried Benn (May 2, 1886 — July 7, 1956)

Gottfried Benn was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He


was nominated for the NobelPrize in Literature five times. He
began his literary career as a poet when he published a
booklettitled Morgue and other Poems in 1912, containing
expressionist poems dealing with physicaldecay of flesh, with
blood, cancer, and death. Benn's poetry projects an introverted
nihilism, thatis, an existentialist outlook that views artistic
expression as the only purposeful action. In his earlypoems
Benn used his medical experience, often using medical
terminology, to portray humanitymorbidly as just another
species of disease-ridden animal.
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