Thomas Bernhard Writer

Thomas Bernhard (German: [ˈbɛʁnhaʁt]; born Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard; February 9, 1931 – February 12, 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Bernhard Nicolaas Thomas
Birth date	February 09, 1931
Birth place	Netherlands , Heerlen
Nationality	Austrians
Date of death	February 12, 1989
Place of death	Upper Austria , Ohlsdorf , Austria

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Writer

Career start	1957
Career end	1989
influenced	Orhan Pamuk Claire Messud Javier Marías William Gaddis Elfriede Jelinek W. G. Sebald
influenced by	Arthur Schopenhauer Franz Kafka Friedrich Nietzsche Fyodor Dostoyevsky Knut Hamsun Ludwig Wittgenstein Marcel Proust Samuel Beckett Gertrude Stein Michel de Montaigne Robert Schumann Witold Gombrowicz Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
movement	Postmodernism
notable work	Correction (novel) Extinction (Bernhard novel) The Loser Woodcutters (novel)