Lawrence Durrell Writer

Lawrence George Durrell (/ˈdʊərəl, ˈdʌr-/; 27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship, though, more accurately, he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968, due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. Hence, he was denied the right to enter or settle in Britain under new laws and had to apply for a visa for each entry. His most famous work is the tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet.

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Alias (AKA)	Durrell Lawrence George
Birth date	February 27, 1912
Birth name	Lawrence George Durrell
Birth place	Jalandhar , Punjab Province (British India) , Presidencies and provinces of British India
Date of death	November 07, 1990
Place of death	Sommières , France

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Career start	1931
Career end	1990
influenced	Dylan Thomas Thomas Pynchon David Gascoyne Roger Zelazny Julio Cortázar M. G. Vassanji Susan Swan
influenced by	Friedrich Nietzsche Joseph Conrad Oscar Wilde T. S. Eliot Henry Miller Giorgos Seferis Constantine P. Cavafy
notable work	The Alexandria Quartet