Charles Bukowski

Person · Open Library

Born

16 August 1920

Died

9 March 1994

Works

478

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Film & TV

Writing · Andernach, Germany

Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambiance of his home city of Los Angeles.

Known for

• Daedalus — Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)2024
• La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président — Self (archive footage)2022
• On Life — Himself ( voice )2021
• Love, He Said — Himself2018
• On The Tragedies Of Ordinary Life — himself ( voice )2018
• Charles Bukowski's Crappy Life2017
• You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski — Himself2016
• Charles Bukowski: There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here2008
• Bukowski: The Last Straw2008
• Il falso bugiardo — Self (archive footage)2008

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1920

Active to

1994

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

30,849

Total plays

526,926

Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994), was a Los Angeles poet and novelist often mistakenly associated with Beat Generation writers because of alleged similarities of style and attitude. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles. He wrote more than fifty books and countless smaller pieces. He is often mentioned as an influence by contemporary authors and his style is frequently imitated. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Charles+Bukowski">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,734x

2. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

   · 1989 · cited 28,516x

3. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 22,979x

4. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 22,167x

5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,048x

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Quotes

• “It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.”
• “No shortcuts, with me as with life.”
• “Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of being human Shakespeare a plagiarist Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness the impossibility the impossibility Nietzsche gone totally mad the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.”
• “I've never met another man I'd rather be.”
• “I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead: men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideals.”
• “But I couldn't help thinking, god, all these mailmen do is drop in letters and get laid. This is the job for me, oh yes yes yes.”

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Official website

Link to the official site · 4,458 chars · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Official website

www.bukowski-gesellschaft.de

Image

CharlesBukowski-1.jpg

Number of children

2

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