“I made drawings before I learned how to write. The impulse to do so seems basic — it is both the invention and the use of language.”
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William Saroyan
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy.
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culture · American writer (1908–1981) · writer · playwright · screenwriter · novelist · poet · songwriter · also William Saroyan, Saroyan
Born 31 August 1908 · Died 18 May 1981 · Q207356
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2018· 1 entry
The William Saroyan House Museum was opened in the house where Saroyan lived for the last 17 years of his life, in the city of Fresno
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2015· 1 entry
Several libraries were opened in honor of William Saroyan in the city of Bitlis, Turkey
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2014· 1 entry
The city council of Bitlis approved the renaming of five streets in the historical part of the city in Southeast Turkey
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2008· 1 entry
A monument was erected in honor of Saroyan in Mashtots Avenue in Yerevan (sculptor David Yerevantsi, architects Ruben Asratyan and Levon Igityan)
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Tracyho tygr”.
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2004· 1 entry
“The End of the Mannerist Century”
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1991· 1 entry
The United States and the Soviet Union (series "Joint issue of USSR and USA
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1981· 4 entries
Died 1981-05-18.
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“Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.”
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“The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.”
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“I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.”
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1979· 1 entry
Was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame
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1964· 1 entry
“One Day in the Afternoon of the World”
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1959· 1 entry
And they remained married until his death in 2000
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1954· 1 entry
“The Armenian Writers : A Short Story”
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1952· 1 entry
Saroyan published The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills, the first of several volumes of memoirs
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1951· 2 entries
They remarried in 1951 and divorced again in 1952 with Marcus later claiming in her autobiography, Among the Porcupines: A Memoir, that Saroyan was abusive.
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And divorced again in 1952 with Marcus later claiming in her autobiography, Among the Porcupines: A Memoir, that Saroyan was abusive
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1949· 2 entries
Upon returning from an extended European trip, he filed for divorce
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By the late 1940s, Saroyan's drinking and gambling took a toll on his marriage, and in 1949, upon returning from an extended European trip, he filed for divorce.
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1944· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Story for The Human Comedy (1944).
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1943· 2 entries
Saroyan married actress Carol Grace (1924–2003; also known as Carol Marcus), with whom he had two children: Aram, who became an author and published a book about his father, and Lucy, who became an actress
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William Saroyan received the Academy Award for his screenplay for The Human Comedy, a screenplay he adapted into a novel that was published just prior to the release of the film
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1942· 1 entry
Was posted to London as part of a Signal Corps film unit
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1940· 3 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Time of Your Life (1940).
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And in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy
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William Saroyan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Time of Your Life, but he refused the award
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1939· 1 entry
With his cousin Ross Bagdasarian (who later became famous as "David Seville," the impresario behind Alvin and the Chipmunks), adapting the music from an Armenian folk song
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1934· 1 entry
“The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze”
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1932· 1 entry
And ended in 1941, that grew into an unrequited love affair on Saroyan's part
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1908· 2 entries
In Fresno, California, to Armenak and Takuhi Saroyan, Armenian immigrants from Bitlis, Ottoman Empire
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Born 1908-08-31.
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1905· 1 entry
And started preaching in Armenian Apostolic churches
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