Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles (December 30, 1910 - November 18, 1999), was an American composer, author, and traveler.

Selected works

Besides being a composer and novelist, Bowles published fourteen short story collections, three volumes of poetry, numerous translations, and books of travel writing and autobiography. Some of his better-known works are listed below.

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Music

• 1931 Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet
• 1937 Yankee Clipper, ballet
• 1941 Pastorela, ballet
• 1944 The Glass Managerie, play
• 1946 Cabin, words by Tennessee Williams, music by Paul Bowles
• 1946 Concerto for Two Pianos
• 1947 Sonata for Two Pianos
• 1949 Night Waltz
• 1953 A Picnic Cantata
• 1955 Yerma, opera
• 1979 Blue Mountain ballads, words by Tennessee Williams, music by Paul Bowles.

Novels

• 1949 The Sheltering Sky
• 1952 Let It Come Down
• 1955 The Spider's House
• 1966 Up Above the World

Collections of short stories

• 1950 A Little Stone
• 1950 The delicate prey, and other stories
• 1959 The Hours after Noon
• 1962 A hundred camels in the courtyard
• 1967 The Time of Friendship
• 1968 Pages from Cold Point and Other Stories
• 1975 Three Tales
• 1977 Things Gone & Things Still Here
• 1979 Collected stories, 1939-1976
• 1988 Unwelcome Words: Seven Stories

Poetry

• 1933 Two Poems
• 1968 Scenes
• 1972 The Thicket of Spring
• 1981 Next to nothing: collected poems, 1926-1977

Translations

Among his life's accomplishments were translations of stories from the oral tradition of native Moroccan storytellers including Mohammed Mrabet, Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi (Larbi Layachi), Abdeslam Boulaich, and Ahmed Yacoubi. He also translated the Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri. Bowles spent five weeks in 1959 recording 'andaluz' as well as traditional Berber tribal music while traveling around Morocco. Two recordings have been commercially released and all are archived in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Related Topics:
Mohammed Mrabet - Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi - Larbi Layachi - Abdeslam Boulaich - Ahmed Yacoubi - Mohamed Choukri - Andaluz - Berber - Library of Congress - Washington, D.C.

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• 1964 A Life Full Of Holes, by Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi (Larbi Layachi)
• 1968 Love With A Few Hairs, by Mohammed Mrabet
• 1968 The Lemon, by Mohammed Mrabet
• 1970 M'Hashish, by Mohammed Mrabet
• 1974 The Boy Who Set the Fire, by Mohammed Mrabet
• 1976 Look & Move On, by Mohammed Mrabet
• 1976 Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins, by Mohammed Mrabet
• 1979 Five Eyes, by Abdeslam Boulaich, Mohamed Choukri, Larbi Layachi, Mohammed Mrabet, and Ahmed Yacoubi

Travel writing and autobiography

• 1957 Yallah, text by Paul Bowles, photos by Peter W. Haeberlin
• 1963 Their Heads are Green, travel writing
• 1972 Without stopping; an autobiography

In 1990 Bernardo Bertolucci adapted The Sheltering Sky into a film in which Bowles plays the narrative voice.

Related Topics:
1990 - Bernardo Bertolucci

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