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B. Traven

  • Torsvan Croves
  • Hal Croves
  • Berick Torsvan
  • Otto Feige
  • Traven Torsvan
  • Bernhard Traven Torsvan
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Traven, B.
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Person
Gender
Male
Date of birth
1882
Place of birth
Świebodzin
Date of death
1969-03-26
Place of death
Ciudad de México

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B. Traven (German: [ˈbeː ˈtʁaːvn̩]; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. It has been claimed that it would be the pseudonym of one Frans Blom, an explorer of Mayan culture. One certainty about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), the film adaptation of which won three Academy Awards in 1949.

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B. Traven was, according to current knowledge, the pseudonym of the German metalworker and trade union secretary Otto Feige.

Last modified: 2023-03-19 (revision #128212)

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Goodreads Author ID
32530
ISNI
0000 0001 2144 1436
LibraryThing Author
travenb
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL558099A
VIAF
95161780
Wikidata ID
Q55072099

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