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George Steiner
Francis George Steiner, FBA was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".
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culture · French and American Writer, literary critic and philosopher (1929–2020) · philosopher · novelist · translator · university teacher · literary critic · journalist · writer · essayist · cultural critic · literary scholar · also George Steiner, Francis George Steiner, Steiner
Born 23 April 1929 · Died 3 February 2020 · Q453288
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My virginity offended Alfie (his college room-mate). He found it ostentatious and vaguely corrupt in a nineteen-year-old... He sniffed the fear in me with disdain. And marched me off to Cicero, Illinois, a town justly ill famed but, by virtue of its name, reassuring to me. There he organized, with casual authority, an initiation as thorough as it was gentle. It is this unlikely gentleness, the caring under circumstances so outwardly crass, that blesses me still.
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2026· 2 entries
“My virginity offended Alfie (his college room-mate). He found it ostentatious and vaguely corrupt in a nineteen-year-old... He sniffed the fear in me with disdain. And marched me off to Cicero, Illinois, a town justly ill famed but, by virtue of its name, reassuring to me. There he organized, with casual authority, an initiation as thorough as it was gentle. It is this unlikely gentleness, the caring under circumstances so outwardly crass, that blesses me still.”
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2020· 5 entries
At the age of 90, and Zara Steiner died from pneumonia ten days later
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Died 2020-02-03.
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He died at home on February 3, 2020, at the age of 90, and Zara Steiner died from pneumonia ten days later.
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“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”
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“The age of the book is almost gone.”
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from ENS (2014).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Girona (2012).
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Lisbon (2009).
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They had a son, David Steiner (who served as New York State's Commissioner of Education from 2009 to 2011) and a daughter, Deborah Steiner (Professor of Classics at Columbia University).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Ludwig-Börne-Preis (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities (2001).
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded “Today” Prize (1998).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University (1998).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Durham University (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
And an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1995
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (1990).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bristol (1989).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Of the English avant-rock group News from Babel
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain (1980).
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1971).
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1959· 1 entry
Was appointed Gauss Lecturer at Princeton, where he lectured for another two years
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1955· 1 entry
The year he received his DPhil from Oxford University
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Rhodes Scholarship (1950).
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1944· 1 entry
“s lyce class in the affluent 16th arrondissement, he was one of only two who survived. He spent the war years at the French lyce in Manhattan, and became a US citizen in 1944. As”
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1940· 1 entry
During World War II, Steiner's father was in New York City on an economic mission for the French government when the Germans were preparing to invade France, and he got permission for his family to travel to New York
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1929· 2 entries
In Neuilly-sur-Seine, near the capital of France, Paris, to Viennese Jewish parents Else (née Franzos) and Frederick Georg Steiner
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Born 1929-04-23.
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