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2 days ago · On January 25th, the Minsk District House of Officers held a literary evening to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Romain Rolland (1866–1944). Ivan Melezh gave a speech at the celebration dedicated to the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1915). Piatrus Brouka gave an opening speech.
May 27, 2024 · autobiography, the biography of oneself narrated by oneself. Autobiographical works can take many forms, from the intimate writings made during life that were not necessarily intended for publication (including letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, and reminiscences) to a formal book-length autobiography. Formal autobiographies offer a special ...
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4 days ago · 11) The first Marathi biography of Gandhi was written by Avantikabai Gokhale in 1918. It has a foreword written by none other than Lokmanya Tilak. Later, Romain Rolland, the French Nobel Laureate author, wrote a comprehensive biography of Gandhi in 1927. Louis Fisher, Will Durant also authored his biographies.
May 29, 2024 · Woolf imagined that one could write one’s autobiography based on a lifetime’s re-readings of one book, Hamlet: “To write down one’s impressions of Hamlet as one reads it year after year, would be virtually to record one’s own autobiography, for as we know more of life, so Shakespeare comments upon what we know” (Woolf, “Charlotte ...
May 15, 2024 · The book spent 19 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover nonfiction books. Chronicles, Volume One was one of five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Biography/Autobiography category for the 2004 publishing year. The abridged audio version of the book is read by actor Sean Penn.
May 21, 2024 · A biography is an account of a person's life, written by someone else. An autobiography is an account of a person's life, written by that person. A memoir is a special type of autobiography in which the person writes about a specific part of their life. This guide was designed to help you find both biographical and autobiographical information ...
May 27, 2024 · 1925. Benito Mussolini. My Autobiography: With the Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism. 1928. Calvin Coolidge. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. 1929. Winston Churchill.
