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Thomas Bernhard: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born February 9, 1931 or February 10, 1931 • Netherlands
Died February 12, 1989 • Gmunden • Austria

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Portrait of Austrian author and playwright Thomas Bernhard in 1973, shown outdoors wearing a dark coat and looking slightly to the side.
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Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Austrian writer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Portrait of Austrian author Alexander Lernet-Holenia, an older man in a suit and tie, seated and looking toward the camera with a slight smile.
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
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Ilse Aichinger
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Bahr, 1916
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Ferdinand Kürnberger
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Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie, baroness von
Marie, baroness von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Anzengruber, Ludwig
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ernest Hemingway
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Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
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Joan Didion, 1970
Joan Didion
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Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
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Edmund White
Edmund White
American author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
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Frank Sargeson
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