He grew up with his maternal grandparent — his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century.
He went to a Jesuit college and began to read law, but his studies were soon broken off for his work as a journalist. Besides his large output of fiction he has written screenplays and has continued to work as a journalist. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.
Bibliography La hojarasca. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. La mala hora. Era, Xalapa, Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, Scott profoundly influenced the work of European writers, as well as painters and musicians; the writings of this have been represented in the theater, cinema, and television on several occasions.
Marie Kondo October 9, was born in Tokyo, Japan. Writer and businesswoman, famous for being the creator of the Konmari method. A system that explains the proper way of organizing the home so that only the necessary is available and what makes the owner happy, avoiding the accumulation derived from the tendency to cling to the past.
Kondo was interested at an early age in order and cleanliness, influenced by magazines about decoration and the home that her mother bought. While growing up, she spent a lot of time alone, since her mother took care of her younger sister, who at that time was just a baby.
During these years she studied and continued to cultivate her love for order. When she entered the institute she began ordering the shelves while other students practiced sports. Upon entering the University of Tokyo, she noticed that ordering helped her stay calmed and release the stress produced by the studies and partials.
One day she organized for the first time she experienced a state of total calm and perfect order, which motivated her to choose the organization as a profession. At 19, while studying at the University of Tokyo, she became a consultant and created the Konmari method, a System in which she explains the proper way to organize the home and other spaces, so that they become spaces of inspiration and serenity, which to some extent influences the mental health of the people who inhabit the place.
The Kondo method proposes the elimination of unnecessary things, likewise, on a more personal level, it promotes the termination of unproductive relationships that do not positively influence the person. The goal of the system is to bring happiness and serenity to the person who carries it out. Konmari is based on the steps that Kondo followed in the organization of her home, as well as certain aspects of Eastern philosophy, feng shui, and inspirational coaching.
This is divided into five steps: the first is the selection and organization of clothing, only what is used is chosen, looks good or produces happiness to the owner. After the selection must be organized so that everything is visible and accessible. The second is focused on books, only those that are of great importance are chose, preventing them from exceeding 30 books.
The next step is the papers, keeping what is in force or necessary, then they are stored in folios. The fourth step is the komono, also understood as various objects that you have in the home such as photos, CDs, magazines, among others, of these should only remain what has great emotional value.
Finally, sentimental articles should be selected and organized, as mentioned above, only objects that have a deep sentimental value and that produce happiness should be chosen. I f that is not the case, it should be discarded since only objects that do not contribute to growth would be accumulating and peace of the person. Shortly thereafter launched happiness after order , in which delves into the method and well-being that it brings; subsequently published The magic of order.
An illustrated novel These books were transformed into lectures, audiobooks, and articles, through which, Kondo, has become one of the most prominent figures of recent years. After the publication of these, the author has participated in various radio and television programs in Japan and other countries, such as Ellen Show and Rachael Ray Show.
In , she was included in the list of the most influential people in the world created by Time magazine, list in which the outstanding Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has also been included. At present, her company has a long list of clients whom she helps transform her spaces into places of inspiration and serenity. In January , the series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo was launched from Netflix, in which Kondo is seen visiting and organizing homes based on her method.
Swiss writer considered one of the most relevant writers of recent years. Before devoting himself fully to writing he studied for a short time Drama in Paris, and Law at the University of Geneva, a career that ended in ; Dicker rose to fame that same year, winning the prestigious Prix des Ecrivains Genevois award , an award aimed at highlighting unpublished works.
Their success turned Dicker into a phenomenon of international sales. Son of a high school teacher and a bookstore ; he has three brothers. Dicker spent his childhood in Geneva, the city where he began his academic training.
While studying he began to be interested in writing, an interest he cultivated by becoming the manager of nature and animal magazine. It is worth mentioning that although he was attracted to writing, he did not like to study. At the end of this training period, he moved to Paris, where he began taking acting classes at the renowned French drama school, Cours Florent. After a year he dropped out of school and returned to his hometown, where shortly thereafter he began studying law at the University of Geneva.
Five years later he graduated, obtaining the title of Lawyer. The trajectory of the young writer began in the mids, at which time he published the story, The Tiger , a work he presented in a youth literary contest but was dismissed since for the judges it was suspected that such work was written by someone so young.
In the story, he deepens on topics such as existential dilemmas, violence, the possibility of redemption and the great questions that human beings pose, this was set in the government of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II.
Five years later he won the Prix des Ecrivains Genevois prize, awarded by the Geneva Writers Society for the best manuscript not published for the work The Last Days of Our Fathers, written that was published a year later thanks to the prize.
In , the work was adapted to television in the miniseries format, which was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Patrick Dempsey. Three years after the publication of The Truth About The Harry Quebert Case , The Baltimore Book came out, written that continues the investigations of the young writer Marcus Goldman , this time he investigates the Goldman family of Baltimore, from the period of opulence to the decline of the family and the emergence of drama.
The most recent work of the author is The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer , a thriller that revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a journalist who at that time had discovered the irregularities of an old homicide case, by revealing this information to the police officer in charge of case disappears.
Historian and political theorist, he was one of the founders and theorists of modern socialism. The Count of Saint-Simon was part of the military who fought in the War of Independence of the United States , later joined the revolutionary cause in Paris becoming a Republican. He was born into an aristocratic family. Due to family tradition, he began his military career at an early age actively participating in the United States War of Independence , in favor of the colonies.
After returning to the country began the revolutionary movement that ended in the outbreak of the French Revolution , political and social conflict that marked the history of the eighteenth century, driving profound changes in various parts of the world as the establishment of the republican model. Marquez announced his retirement from writing in however there have been rumors that he is writing a novel that is yet to be published. Marquez never really set a determined style for his writing.
He said a writing style varies with every book as every story differs from the other with a separate mood for each one. Perhaps the most important point in his career as a newspaperman came in when a sailor named Luis Alejandro Velasco came to El Espectador to tell of his incredible survival at sea.
Alejandro was a survivor of a Colombian naval destroyer crew that was struck by storm en route home from New Orleans. The survival was already well-publicized, but only newspapers friendly to Colombian dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla had been permitted interviews with Alejandro. Among other revelations, the sailor reported that the destroyer had not encountered a storm at all but, instead, had been carrying black market goods on deck.
High winds had knocked the cargo loose and the eight victims who survived, including Alejandro, had been knocked overboard during the storm. These facts, which turned out to be substantially true, made the article an instant success but deeply embarrassed the government.
The title of the book was: The Tale of A Shipwrecked Sailor, who was adrift ten days on a life raft without food or water, who was proclaimed a hero of the nation, kissed by beauty queens and made rich by publicity, and then loathed by the government and forgotten forever.
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