Dominique Aury

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Writer and translator Anne Desclos, known as Dominique Aury, studied English at the Sorbonne. Between 1933 and 1939, she worked at the Teachers' College of Columbia University in Paris, France. She was a translator and journalist on Lettres Francaise from 1942 to 1946, and following the liberation of France began her career as a publisher's reader and editor. She wrote a series of love letters in novel form expressing her love for editor and writer Jean Paulhan. This book became a best-seller, and was translated into many languages.

Women writers, Women authors, Aury, Dominique

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Giorgio Strehler

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Theatre director Giorgio Strehler studied dramatic art at the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan, Italy, and the Geneva Conservatory. He began a career in acting and directing, and was active in the Italian Resistance during the second world war. He founded the Piccolo Teatro in 1947, and gradually abandoned acting to concentrate on directing. He mounted a theatre co-operative, Gruppo Teatro e Azione, in 1968 in response to student agitation, but returned to the Piccolo Teatro in 1973.

Theatrical producers and directors, Theatrical directors, Theatrical producers (Persons), Strehler, Giorgio

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Shoichi Yokoi

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Soldier and tailor Shoichi Yokoi was apprenticed to a tailor after leaving school and soon set up his own tailoring business. He was conscripted in 1941, and was one of 22,000 troops sent to defend Guam. With a few survivors, he honoured Emperor Hirohito's command never to surrender. He survived in the jungles of Guam until 1972, when he was persuaded to be repatriated. On his return to Japan, he became a national hero.

Soldiers, Yokoi, Shoichi

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