Graham Greene | |
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Born | Henry Graham Greene 2 October 1904 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, Ingland |
Dee'd | 3 Apryle 1991 Vevey, Swisserland | (aged 86)
Thrift | Writer |
Naitionality | British |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Period | 1925–1991 |
Genre | Leeterar feection, thriller |
Spoose | Vivien Dayrell-Browning (1927–1991, his daith; separatit frae 1947) |
Pairtner | Catherine Walston, Lady Walston (1946–1966) Yvonne Cloetta (1966–1991) |
Bairns | Lucy Caroline (b. 1933) Francis (b. 1936) |
Henry Graham Greene OM CH (2 October 1904 – 3 Aprile 1991), better kent bi his pen name Graham Greene, wis an Inglis novelist regairdit bi some as ane o the great writers o the 20t century.[3][4] Combinin leeterar acclaim wi widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, baith o serious Catholic novelles, an o thrillers (or "enterteenments" as he termed them). He wis shortleetit, in 1966 an 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Leeteratur.[5][6] Throu 67 years o writins, which includit ower 25 novelles, he explored the ambivalent moral an poleetical issues o the modren warld, eften throu a Catholic perspective.