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John Boyne
John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Irish novelist. He is the author of eleven novels for adults and six novels for younger readers. His novels are published in over 50 languages. His 2006 novel ''The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'' was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name. Biography Boyne was born in Dublin, where he still lives to this day. His first short story was published by the ''Sunday Tribune'' and in 1993 was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin (BA) and the University of East Anglia (MA), in 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East Anglia. He chaired the jury for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Boyne is gay, and has spoken about the difficulties he encountered growing up gay in Catholic Ireland. Boyne has spoken of suffering abuse in Terenure College as a student there. He regards John Banville as "the world's greatest living writer". In August 2020, it was noticed that Boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
''The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'' is a 2006 Holocaust novel by Irish novelist John Boyne. Much like the process he undertakes when writing most of his novels, Boyne has said that he wrote the entire first draft in two and a half days, without sleeping much, but also that he was quite a serious student of Holocaust-related literature for years before the idea for the novel even came to him. The book has received mixed reviews; while positive reviews praise the story as a moral, negative reviews attack the book's historical inconsistencies, and the potential damage it could cause to people's Holocaust education. In both 2007 and 2008, it was the best-selling book of the year in Spain, and it reached number one on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008, a ballet in 2017 and an opera entitled ''A Child In Striped Pyjamas'' in 2023. Background John Boyne has described the conception of his novel as an idea popping int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reddit
Reddit (; stylized in all lowercase as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "communities" or "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by community-specific moderators, who are not Reddit employees. As of March 2022, Reddit ranks as the 9th- most-visited website in the world and 6th most-visited website in the U.S., according to Semrush. About 42–49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9–8.2% and Canada at 5.2–7.8%. Twenty-two percent of U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transgender
A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through transitioning, often adopting a different name and set of pronouns in the process. Additionally, they may undergo sex reassignment therapies such as hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery to more closely align their primary and secondary sex characteristics with their gender identity. Not all transgender people desire these treatments, however, and others may be unable to access them for financial or medical reasons. Those who do desire to medically transition to another sex may identify as transsexual. ''Transgender'' is an umbrella term. In addition to trans men and trans women, it may also include people who are non-binary or genderqueer. Other definitions of ''transgender'' also include people who belong to a third gender, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through labor in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland. Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor on 30 January 1933, the regime built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and those deemed "undesirable", starting with Dachau on 22 March 1933. After the passing of the Enabling Act on 24 March, which gave Hitler dictatorial plenary powers, the government began isolating Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum ( pl, Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) is a museum on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim (German: ''Auschwitz''), Poland. The site includes the main concentration camp at Auschwitz I and the remains of the concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Both were developed and run by Nazi Germany during its occupation of Poland in 1939–1945. The Polish government has preserved the site as a research centre and in memory of the 1.1 million people who died there, including 960,000 Jews, during World War II and the Holocaust. It became a World Heritage Site in 1979. Piotr Cywiński is the museum's director. Overview The museum was created in April 1946 by Tadeusz Wąsowicz and other former Auschwitz prisoners, acting under the direction of Poland's Ministry of Culture and Art. It was formally founded on 2 July 1947 by an act of the Polish parliament. The site consists of 20 hectares in Auschwitz I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Hancock
Dame Sheila Cameron Hancock (born 22 February 1933) is an English actress, singer, and author. Hancock trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before starting her career in repertory theatre. Hancock went on to perform in plays and musicals in London, and her Broadway debut in ''Entertaining Mr Sloane'' (1966) earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in Play. Hancock won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for her role in ''Cabaret'' (2007) and was nominated at the Laurence Olivier Awards five other times for her work in ''Annie'' (1978), ''Sweeney Todd'' (1980), ''The Winter's Tale'' (1982), ''Prin'' (1989) and ''Sister Act'' (2010). Early life Sheila Cameron Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Enrico Cameron Hancock and Ivy Louise (née Woodward). Enrico Hancock was the son of a Thomas Cook employee, and grew up in Milan. He worked for Vickers, and was previously a publican and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Friend
Rupert William Anthony Friend (born 9 October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in '' The Libertine'' (2004) and '' Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont'' (2005), both of which won him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in '' Pride & Prejudice'' (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in ''The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'' (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in ''The Young Victoria'' (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in ''Starred Up'' (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series ''Homeland'' (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in ''The Death of Stalin'' (2017), Theo van Gogh in '' At Eternity's Gate'' (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series '' Strange Angel'' (2018-2019). In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson, starting with a cameo in ''The French Dispatch'' (2021), followed by roles in Anderson's upcoming film ''Asteroid City'' and Netflix project '' The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar''. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Farmiga
Vera Ann Farmiga ( ; born August 6, 1973) is an American actress who is best known for portraying paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren in the Conjuring Universe films '' The Conjuring'' (2013), '' The Conjuring 2'' (2016), '' Annabelle Comes Home'' (2019) and '' The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It'' (2021). Farmiga began her professional acting career on stage in the original Broadway production of '' Taking Sides'' (1996). She made her television debut in the Fox fantasy adventure series '' Roar'' (1997), and her feature film debut in the drama-thriller '' Return to Paradise'' (1998). Farmiga's breakthrough came in 2004 with her starring role as a drug addict in the drama '' Down to the Bone''. She received further praise for the drama film '' Nothing But the Truth'' (2008), and won critical acclaim for starring in the 2009 comedy-drama '' Up in the Air'', for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Farmiga made her directorial deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Thewlis
David Wheeler (born 20 March 1963), better known as David Thewlis (), is a British actor, author, director and screenwriter. Thewlis rose to prominence when he starred in the film ''Naked'' (1993), for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. His most commercially successful roles have been Remus Lupin in the ''Harry Potter'' franchise (2004–2011) and Sir Patrick Morgan / Ares in ''Wonder Woman'' (2017). Other film roles include ''Total Eclipse'' (1995), ''James and the Giant Peach'' (1996), ''Dragonheart'' (1996), ''Seven Years in Tibet'' (1997), ''Kingdom of Heaven'' (2005), ''The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'' (2008), ''War Horse'' (2011), '' The Theory of Everything'' (2014), ''Anomalisa'' (2015), ''I'm Thinking of Ending Things'' (2020), and ''Enola Holmes 2'' (2022). He will appear in ''Avatar 3'' (2024). Thewlis's most notable television roles are Cyrus Crabb in the miniseries ''Dinotopia'' (2002), V. M. Varga in the third series of '' Fargo'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asa Butterfield
Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield (; born Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield on 1 April 1997) is an English actor. He has received nominations for three British Independent Film Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, two Saturn Awards, and three Young Artist Awards. Beginning his career as a child actor, Butterfield first achieved recognition as the lead of the historical drama film ''The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'' (2008). He continued to headline films during the 2010s, starring in the adventure drama ''Hugo'' (2011), the war science fiction film ''Ender's Game'' (2013), the drama '' X+Y'' (2014), and the fantasy ''Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'' (2016). In 2019, Butterfield began portraying the lead of the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Sex Education''. Early life Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield was born on 1 April 1997, in Islington, London, England, and is the son of Jacqueline Farr, a psychologist, and Sam Butterfield, an advertising copywriter. He was educate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Herman
Mark Herman (born 1954) is an English film director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing the 2008 film ''The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas''. Life and career Herman was born in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was educated at Woodleigh School, North Yorkshire and thereafter at Sedbergh School and Bridlington Grammar School, Bridlington. Aged 27, he was late entering the film industry, studying Art at Hull Art College before taking up animation at Leeds Polytechnic, now Leeds Beckett University, from where he progressed to the National Film and Television School. There, he moved away from animation and towards writing and directing. He also wrote lyrics for the successful 1980s band The Christians on their first album, '' The Christians'', alongside fellow East Riding of Yorkshire songwriter Henry Priestman. Herman’s first feature-length project was ''Blame It on the Bellboy'' (1992), a comedy of mistaken identity starring Dudley Moore an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
