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9. Mai 2024 · Bruce Chatwin (born May 13, 1940, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England—died January 18, 1989, Nice, France) was a British writer who won international acclaim for books based on his nomadic life. In 1966 Chatwin abandoned a promising career as a director of Impressionist art at the auction firm Sotheby’s in London to study archaeology ...
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7. Mai 2024 · Ob Nooteboom von seinen Begegnungen mit Bruce Chatwin, Mary McCarthy und Umberto Eco erzählt, ob er mit einem alten Kahn durch Gambia tuckert, mit Fellini durch Rom geht oder Patres in Peru und Bolivien besucht, ob er über Frida Kahlo oder Vermeer schreibt, über Fotografie und Literatur, oder ob er unterwegs ist nach Piemont, in ...
5. Mai 2024 · The visionary filmmaker Werner Herzog has described his friend and kindred nomadic spirit Bruce Chatwin as a ‘voyager of the mind'. [1] Herzog remembers Chatwin this way: "he had a profound, existential, curiosity about the world.
17. Mai 2024 · Award-winning novelist Nicholas Shakespeare has written the definitive biography of one of the most influential literary figures of our time: Bruce Chatwin, whose works strangely compelling combination of research, first-hand experience, myth, and mystification may have been the real substance of his seemingly contradictory life ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Bruce Chatwin was a a bisexual travel writer, author, and journalist. He studied archaeology at the University of Edinburgh from 1966, but left after two years to pursue his writing career. Chatwin became one of the first notable British figures to contract HIV, and died of an AIDS-related illness (although he hid this at the time).
Vor einem Tag · In 1985, British travel writer Bruce Chatwin was researching an article on Rock when he came upon a certain Dr Ho and his herbal medicine clinic at Baisha. Chatwin's subsequent article, glowingly talking of his time with Ho, featured in early guidebooks to Yunnan. Ho's fame brought him prosperity while giving the area publicity.
9. Mai 2024 · John Kasmin, Bruce Chatwin opening a bottle of champagne for our picnic, Christmas Day, near Bonnieux, Durance Valley, France (1985). Photo courtesy of the artist and Lyndsey Ingram Gallery. “Kasmin’s Camera” will arrive as the gallerist celebrates his 90th birthday.
