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Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a Franco-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". Among his admirers, Steiner is ranked "among…
Known for
- E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey — Self (archive footage)2019
- Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — himself2000
- Meticulous and Desperate — himself1989
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Self1988
- The Tongues of Men — Narrator1977
- Apostrophes — Self1975
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Key facts
- Born
- Francis George Steiner , ( 1929-04-23 ) April 23, 1929, Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
- Died
- February 3, 2020 (2020-02-03) (aged 90), Cambridge , England
- Occupation
- Author essayist literary critic professor
- Education
- University of Chicago ( BA ), Harvard University ( MA ), Balliol College, Oxford ( DPhil )
- Period
- 1960–2014
- Genre
- History, literature, literary fiction
- Notable works
- After Babel (1975)
- Notable awards
- Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award (1998)
- Spouse
- Zara Shakow ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1955 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Family name
- Steiner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Spouse
- Zara Steiner
- Occupation
- literary scholar
- Employer
- Williams College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- Judaism
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Field of work
- philosophy of culture
- Image
- George Steiner 2013 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1929-04-23
- Commons category
- George Steiner
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- name in native language
- George Steiner
- date of death
- 2020-02-03
- interested in
- Jewish question
- birth name
- Francis George Nathaniel Steiner
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Encyclopedic overview
Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) 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".
To his admirers, Steiner is "among the great minds in today's literary world". English novelist A. S. Byatt described him as a "late, late, late Renaissance man ... a European metaphysician with an instinct for the driving ideas of our time". Harriet Harvey-Wood, a former literature director of the British Council, described him as a "magnificent lecturer – prophetic and doom-laden [who would] turn up with half a page of scribbled notes, and never refer to them".
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