His best known writing includes The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.
Explored the struggle of security and understanding in people.
His mother lacked the intellect to be able to understand his dreams of being a writer.
From an upper-middle class Jewish family.
His friend Max Brod published a lot of Kafka's work after his death even though Kafka requested him to destroy it.
Kafka's characters were normally up against some kind of enormous power which is believed to be related to the attitude his father had towards Kafka and the rest of the family.
Socialist.
Struggled with depression, anxiety and insomnia.
His books were especially popular during WW2 and massively influenced German literature.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Best known writing includes Animal Farm, 1984 and Homage to Catalonia.
Opinionated and strongly addressed some of the biggest political problems of his time, including fascism and communism.
His father was a British civil servant stationed in India meaning he rarely came home.
When his father retired and Orwell got the opportunity to get to know him better he found him too conservative and they never formed a bond.
Composed his first poem by the time he was four.
"I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued."
At school he noticed how the richer kids were treated better than the others.
His birth name was Eric Blair which he changed to Orwell when he published his first book so he didn't embarrass his family.
He became a writer for a socialist newspaper in 1943.
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
Samuel Beckett
His best known writing includes Waiting For Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape.
Novelist, playwright and a poet.
He experienced severe depression in his teens which lead to be the influence of his writing.
“I had little talent for happiness.”
He travelled through Britain, France and Germany where he met people who would influence some of his most interesting characters.
He settled in France and got stabbed by a pimp.
In five years he wrote 10 books.
His plays were not written with traditional lines with references to time and place but he focused on elements of the human condition using dark humour.
The plays tend to focus on human despair as people live in a world with no help or understanding of what is going on.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
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