<p>'The English translations of his work and their growing readership, will surely solidify Bernhard’s legacy as one of the most important authors of the 20th century.’<br />
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- Jessica Ferri,
<p>‘Thank goodness for Thomas Bernhard, the most truthful, the funniest, and the most musical of writers since Marcel Proust.’</p>
- Gabriel Josipovici,
A brilliantly mordant memoir of the background and circumstances of nine literary prizes awarded to Austrian novelist and enfant terrible, Thomas Bernhard, between 1963 and 1980.
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Biografisk notat
Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 and grew up in Austria. He is increasingly regarded as the major European writer of his generation. His novels include The Loser, Frost, Gargoyles, Correction, Wittgenstein's Nephew and Extinction. The five segments of his memoir were published in one volume, Gathering Evidence, in 1985. Thomas Bernhard died in 1989.