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1. Henry Charles Bukowski ( / buːˈkaʊski / boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈkaʁl buˈkɔfski]; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. [4]
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- Charles Bukowski’s father was abusive. Bukowski referred to his childhood as a horror story with a “capital H.” When asked why in a 1981 interview for Italian TV, Bukowski shared that he had been “beaten with a razor strop three times a week from the age of 6 until 11” by his father.
- He started drinking at the age of 13. Though hardly rare among some of our culture’s most famous writers, Bukowski had a lifelong relationship with alcohol that began as a young teen.
- The FBI had a file on Bukowski. In the 1960s, thanks in part to his ongoing “Notes of a Dirty Old Man” column for the Los Angeles underground newspaper Open City, Bukowski managed to catch the eye of the feds.
- He didn’t publish his first novel until he was 50. Although he had been writing and publishing poetry and short stories for years in smaller publications, Bukowski’s first novel wasn’t published until he was 50 years old.
Aug 24, 2018 · Charles Bukowski, portrait by italian artist Graziano Origa. Photo by Bukowski-by-origa Origafoundation CC BY-SA 3.0. Having been rejected, criticized and even ignored by the academic community in the U.S. during much of his lifetime, the writer’s most faithful audience laid in the counterculture ― among hippie youth, beatniks, and renegades, as well as other non-established authors.
Charles Bukowski (born August 16, 1920, Andernach, Germany—died March 9, 1994, San Pedro, California, U.S.) was an American author noted for his use of violent images and graphic language in poetry and fiction that depict survival in a corrupt, blighted society. Bukowski lived most of his life in Los Angeles.
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Mar 6, 2005 · In his heavily autobiographical novels and some of his poems, he gave this alter ego the transparent pseudonym Hank Chinaski—Bukowski’s full name was Henry Charles Bukowski, Jr., and he was ...
Ham on Rye is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. ... Jr. was born. At the beginning of the novel, Henry, Sr. works as a ...
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Bukowski’s main autobiographical figure in these stories, as well as in many of his novels, is Henry Chinaski, a thinly veiled alter-ego (Bukowski’s full name was Henry Charles Bukowski, Jr. and his friends knew him as Hank).
