Saul Bellow

Also known as Solomon Bellows

Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)

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Saul Bellow was a male author from the United States. He was born on June 10, 1915, and died on April 5, 2005. His notable works include *Seize the Day*, *Herzog*, *Jesse Reichek*, *Planeta m-ra Sėmmlera*, and *Nelson Algren's own book of lonesome monsters*.

Bellow was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Pulitzer Prize collection, and the Nobel Literature collection. He received one Nobel Prize. His work has been referenced by 1,736 other encyclopedia articles. He is listed as similar to artists such as Don DeLillo, Paul Durcan, Fernando Pessoa, and Richard Brautigan.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1976
“for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work”

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Instance of: human
Given name: Saul
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Lachine
Place of death: Brookline
Occupation: author
Employer: University of Chicago
Languages spoken: English language
Religion: Judaism
Award: Guggenheim Fellowship
Notable work: Henderson the Rain King
Field of work: novel
Image: Saul Bellow (Herzog portrait).jpg
Residence: Brookline

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Commons category: Saul Bellow
date of birth: 1915-07-10
date of death: 2005-04-05
name in native language: Saul Bellow
member of: American Academy of Arts and Letters
nominated for: International Booker Prize
influenced by: William Shakespeare
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birth name: Solomon Bellows

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Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.

In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age." His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift, and Ravelstein.

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