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Malcolm Lowry

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Malcolm Lowry

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Also known as Clarence Malcolm Lowry

British writer (1909–1957)

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Malcolm Lowry was a British writer, poet, and novelist who worked in the field of literature. Born in Birkenhead in 1909, he was educated at St Catharine's College and resided in Mexico. His notable work includes the 1947 novel *Under the Volcano*. Lowry was influenced by William Faulkner and wrote in the English language.

He died in Chalvington with Ripe in 1957. Archives of his work are held at the British Library and the Harry Ransom Center.

Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
44

Top works

  • Textplus under the Volcano
  • Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) by Lowry, Malcolm (2000) Paperback
  • Malcolm Lowry's la Mordida
  • Modern Classics Under The Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
  • Malcolm Lowry's Last Novel OCTOBER FERRY TO GABRIOLA

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Film & TV

Writing · New Brighton, Cheshire, England, UK

Clarence Malcolm Lowry was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano.

Known for

  • Corpus Christi — Malcolm Lowe1997

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1909
Active to
1957

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
112
Total plays
2,139

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Quotes

  • No se puede vivir sin amar.
  • Though tragedy was in the process of becoming unreal and meaningless it seemed one was still permitted to remember the days when an individual life held some value and was not a mere misprint in a communiqué.
  • There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e’s, the flying buttresses of d’s, the t’s like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.
  • The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.
  • And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.
  • What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?

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Key facts

Born
Clarence Malcolm Lowry , ( 1909-07-28 ) 28 July 1909, New Brighton , England
Died
26 June 1957 (1957-06-26) (aged 47), Ripe , England
Occupation
Novelist, poet
Literary movement
Modernism
Notable works
Ultramarine (1933) Under the Volcano (1947) Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961) Lunar Caustic (1968) Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid (1968) October Ferry to Gabriola (1970)
Spouse
Jan Gabrial ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1934 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1937 ) ​ Margerie Bonner ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1940 ) ​

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Encyclopedic overview

Clarence Malcolm Lowry (/ˈlaʊri/; 28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Malcolm Lowry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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