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'''William Cuthbert Faulkner''' (* [[25. september]] [[1897]], [[New Albany]], [[Mississippi (štát)|Mississippi]], [[Spojené štáty|USA]] – † [[6. júl]] [[1962]], [[Byhalia]], [[Mississippi (štát)|Mississippi]], [[Spojené štáty|USA]]) bol [[Spojené štáty|americký]] [[básnik]] a [[spisovateľ|prozaik]]. Je považovaný za zakladateľa južanskej literatúry [[20. storočie|20. storočia]].
William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of mediums; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories.[1]
The majority of his works are based in his native state of Mississippi. Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.[2] Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were 1930's As I Lay Dying and Light in August (1932).
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