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George Steiner

George Steiner
George Steiner, French-American philosopher, author, and critic (d. 2020)

Francis George Steiner, FBA 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".

23 April 1929

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