Biography

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Biography

(B. Traven)



B. Traven (Germany, february 23 of 1882 –Mexico, march 26 of 1969) is a of many pseudonyms (Traven Torsvan, Hal Croves or Ret Marut), of a enigmatic novelist who inGerman, famous in the United States primarily have written the novel the Treasure of Sierra Madre, which was based on the movie the Treasure of Sierra Madre, directed by John Huston and starringHumphrey Bogart.

Born on Schwiebus / Brandenburg where elementary school attendance of vocational training 1896-1900 apprenticeship as mechanical fitter then learned the trade working in 1902 Wallencenchange of address / Lower Saxony, 1902-1904, military service Buckeburg from 1904-1906 as a mechanical fitter Magdeburg, 1906-1907 manager of the Union of metal Industry in Gelsenkirchen, to October1907 from a actor in various provinces and street theater (in small roles and minimum) in the theater district of danzig and the theater in Dusseldorf, since 1915 freelance writer and editor. Between1917 and 1921 he worked under the name of Ret Marut . From February to April 1919 official of the Republic of Directors of Munich, in this feature in the list of search and seizure of the Bavarianpolice. He fled Germany and spent a short stint in England in 1923. Traven Marut killed in 1924: "The Bavarian Munich dead," he wrote in his diary on July 26, 1924.

Get to the Mexican port of Tampicoin the same year and will be influenced by the Mexican Revolution, wrote his first novels. And first he becomes famous, not only in his native Germany, but throughout the world. Most take place inMexico and tell uprisings of the oppressed against their oppressors with a direct and simple, but very sensitive anthropological, cultural, social and moral.

From Mexico sends his manuscripts, whichare translated into 44 lenguages. However, Traven rejects both critics and the public, thinking that his books should speak for themselves. This rejection of personal publicity makes it a mystery,...
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