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Also Known As	James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
Born	February 2, 1882 • Dublin • Ireland
Died	January 13, 1941 (aged 58) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works	“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” • “After the Race” • “Chamber Music” • “Dubliners” • “Eveline” • “Exiles” • “Finnegans Wake” • “Pomes Penyeach” • “Stephen Hero” • “The Day of the Rabblement” • “The Dead” • “The Sisters” • “Ulysses”
Movement / Style	Modernism

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