Thomas Bernhard
(1931-1989)
Austrian playwright and novelist
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Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity.
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Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard 9 February 1931 Heerlen, Netherlands
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| Died |
12 February 1989 (aged 58) Gmunden, Austria
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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