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My Take
Paul Bowles is one of those rare figures who refused to pick a lane. Composer, novelist, translator, photographer, music critic, he did all of it, and a 1941 Guggenheim Fellowship suggests the establishment took the music seriously before the books. But what fascinates me most is the leap: a New Yorker from Queens who settled in Tangier in 1947 and stayed 52 years. That kind of permanent self-exile says something about an artist who needed distance from his own culture to see it clearly. The Sheltering Sky still reads like a man writing from the edge of the known world, which, geographically and artistically, he was.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Paul Bowles
- Name (Japanese)
- ポール・ボウルズ
- Reading
- ぽーる・ぼうるず
- Born
- December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Dog
- Origin
- Queens, New York, United States
- Occupation
- writer / composer / translator / music critic / photographer
2. Background
- High school
- Jamaica High School
- University
- University of Virginia
Awards & achievements
- 1941 Guggenheim Fellowship
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.paulbowles.org/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA
Frequently asked questions
When was Paul Bowles born?
December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999.
Where is Paul Bowles from?
Paul Bowles is from Queens, New York, United States.
What does Paul Bowles do?
Paul Bowles works as writer, composer, translator, music critic, photographer.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.