Leonard Cohen: The Flame, Gebunden
The Flame
- Publisher:
- Canongate Books, 10/2018
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781786893130
- Item number:
- 8132646
- Volume:
- 288 Pages
- Ausgabe:
- Main
- Weight:
- 558 g
- Format:
- 242 x 161 mm
- Thickness:
- 27 mm
- Release date:
- 2.10.2018
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter. He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena performing artists in the world.
Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.
Biography
Leonard Cohen, geboren 1934 in Montreal, als Sohn jüdischer Eltern, ist Sänger und Musiker - und vor allem ein großer Poet. Er begann seine künstlerische Laufbahn 1956 mit dem Gedichtband "Let Us Compare Mythologies" und veröffentlichte zahlreiche Bücher, darunter zwei Romane, und 17 Schallplatten. Im März 2008 wurde Cohen in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen. 2011 erhielt er den spanischen "Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis" für Literatur.
