Chinaski
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Poet/Novelist/Drunk |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | Henry Charles Bukowski, "Poet Laureate of Skid Row" was born 8.16.1920 in Andernach, Germany and died of Leukemia on 3.19.1994 (age 73). He attended Los Angeles City College, 1939-41 for journalism. Aside from a writer, he was often a manual worker, working in a dog biscuit factory, slaughterhouse, potato chip warehouse and various other dead-end jobs; Postal Carrier; Postal Clerk; Drunk. Some of his literary influences include: Conrad Aiken, Louis Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night), Catullus, Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from the Underground), John Fante, Knut Hamsun (Hunger), Ernest Hemingway (early writings), Robinson Jeffers (long poems) and James Thurber. His drug of choice was alcohol. He is known for his dirty realism and his ability to make interesting the most mundane and trivial aspects of daily life and the human condition. His long-time publisher was Black Sparrow Press (defunct) but his works have since been published in mass by several publishers in several languages and countries. |
| Interests | Writing & Drinking, Creating & Destroying, classical music, horse playing, fat whores |
| Favorite movies | "Want me to name [my favorite films]? 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' 'Elephant Man,' 'Eraserhead,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - that's a classic. [Akira] Kurosawa and those great battle scenes. And all those great samurai films where guys are chopping heads off." (Film Comment interview, 1987) Movies based on C. Buk's work: Barfly, Factotum, Tales of Ordinary Madness and Love is a Dog from Hell. |
| Favorite music | Classical: Handel, Bach, Mozart, Mahler, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky are among the many. |
| Favorite books | Too many to list. |