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... Literary Archives following her death from cancer at a Locarno hospital in 1995. . Attempting to loo... all ties with her mother--filing any letters she received in an envelope, also on display in Be...
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... fertility', 'Smoking causes fatal lung cancer' and 'Smoking during pregnancy harms the health of..., French and Italian will be big black letters, taking up one-third of the space. Another warning...
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Do you know what bottle is called in Hebrew?" he asks. "It's called baqbuk from the gurgling sound it makes when you pour. Did you know the Swedish word for pain, smSrta, is similar to the Russian word for death - smert?
[Lars Gustafsson] was born in Västerås, a city in central Sweden, in 1936. He studied at Uppsala University and at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was awarded his Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy in 1978. Along the way, Gustafsson has picked up a number of prizes and awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow of Poetry in 1994 and the Italian Una vita per Ia Letteratura in 1989, and he is a member of several academies, like Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering. And though a heavy intellectuality is pr...
When one of Sweden's leading men of letters - the prolific and highly acclaimed Lars Gustafsso... Vesslan - a beekeeper who is dying of cancer - through entries he makes on notepads. "It's a bo...
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Apple-cheeked and lovely, 24-year-old Ingrid Bergman took Hollywood by storm when she arrived in 1939. No difficult Garbo, no sexy Lana Turner, neither the "It" girl nor the bathing beauty -- it was hard to make heads or tails of this new star. Yet Bergman had already enthralled Swedish audiences in films such as Swedenhielms and Intermezzo with her down-to-earth beauty and simplicity of acting. Refusing to be molded into another Hollywood stereotype, Ingrid decided to keep her real name and real hair color and wouldn't even wear lipstick. If they didn't like her the way she was, she figured, she might as well take the next boat back home.
With an Oscar for Gaslight, it looked like Ingrid Bergman had it all. Then, quite suddenly, she decided to make a movie in Italy. Ever curious, she h...
...Already ill with cancer, she gave what is probably her best performance ev...Memorabilia including costumes, diaries, letters from friends such as Ernest Hemingway and Alfred H...