George Steiner

George Steiner
George Steiner
	George Steiner speaking at The Nexus Institute, The Netherlands, 2013
Born	Francis George Steiner ; April 23, 1929 ; Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
Died	February 3, 2020 (aged 90) ; Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , England
Occupation	Author, essayist, literary critic , professor
Nationality	French, American
Period	1960?2020
Genre	History, literature, literary fiction
Notable works	After Babel (1975)
Notable awards	The Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award (1998)
Spouse	Zara Shakow Steiner
Children	David, Deborah

Francis George Steiner , ^[1] FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) ^[2] was a French-born ^[3] American literary critic , essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. ^[4] He wrote about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust . ^[5]

Steiner died on February 3, 2020 at his home in Cambridge at the age of 90. ^[6]

References [ change | change source ]

↑ "The Papers of George Steiner" . Janus . Retrieved March 26, 2008 . [Steiner] has not used the name Francis since his undergraduate days.
↑ Hahn, Daniel. "George Steiner" . Contemporary Writers in the UK . Archived from the original on October 1, 2007 . Retrieved March 26, 2008 .
↑ Cheyette, Bryan (February 1, 2008). "My Unwritten Books by George Steiner" . The Independent . London . Retrieved March 26, 2008 .
↑ Murphy, Rex. "ERRATA: An Examined Life by George Steiner" . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , January 3, 1998 . Archived from the original on January 24, 2008 . Retrieved March 26, 2008 .
↑ Cheyette, Bryan. "Between Repulsion and Attraction: George Steiner's Post-Holocaust Fiction" . Jewish Social Studies . Archived from the original on February 18, 2020 . Retrieved March 26, 2008 .
↑ George Steiner, Prodigious Literary Critic, Dies at 90

Other websites [ change | change source ]

George Steiner at ContemporaryWriters.com.
George and his dragons . The Guardian , March 17, 2001.
A traveller in the realm of the mind . Interview with George Steiner, The Times , September 22, 1997.
Grammars of Creation Archived 2021-03-01 at the Wayback Machine . Full text of Steiner's 2001 lecture.
"Between Repulsion and Attraction: George Steiner's Post-Holocaust Fiction" Archived 2020-02-18 at the Wayback Machine . Jewish Social Studies , 1999.
"George Steiner's Jewish Problem" . Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation .
George Steiner on IMDb

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[Janus-1] "The Papers of George Steiner" . Janus . Retrieved March 26, 2008 . [Steiner] has not used the name Francis since his undergraduate days.

[Contem-2] Hahn, Daniel. "George Steiner" . Contemporary Writers in the UK . Archived from the original on October 1, 2007 . Retrieved March 26, 2008 .

[3] Cheyette, Bryan (February 1, 2008). "My Unwritten Books by George Steiner" . The Independent . London . Retrieved March 26, 2008 .

[4] Murphy, Rex. "ERRATA: An Examined Life by George Steiner" . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , January 3, 1998 . Archived from the original on January 24, 2008 . Retrieved March 26, 2008 .

[5] Cheyette, Bryan. "Between Repulsion and Attraction: George Steiner's Post-Holocaust Fiction" . Jewish Social Studies . Archived from the original on February 18, 2020 . Retrieved March 26, 2008 .

[6] George Steiner, Prodigious Literary Critic, Dies at 90

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