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Informationen zum Autor Sam Shepard was born in 1943 in Fort Sheridan! Illinois. He moved to New York from California just as the off-Broadway theatre scene was emerging. He has written more than forty plays! of which eleven have won 'Obie' awards! as well as collections of stories! prose writing and screenplays. His plays include Buried Child ! The God of Hell ! Simpatico ! Curse of the Starving Class ! True West ! Fool for Love ! A Lie of the Mind ! and States of Shock . His screenplay for Paris! Texas won the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival and he directed his own screenplay! Far North ! in 1988. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters! Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992! and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. Klappentext "A poet of the theatre! shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of human life" (The Times) "A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of human life" (The Times) Zusammenfassung "A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of human life" (The Times)
