Graham Bernard Shaw

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf novelist
playwright
critic
gptkbp:associatedAct gptkb:The_Fabian_Society
gptkb:The_Independent_Labour_Party
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
gptkbp:birthDate 1856-07-26
gptkbp:deathDate 1950-11-02
gptkbp:education gptkb:Dublin_School
gptkbp:famousQuote "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
A_government_that_robs_Peter_to_pay_Paul_can_always_depend_on_the_support_of_Paul.
gptkbp:genre satire
drama
comedy
gptkbp:hasChild gptkb:George_Bernard_Shaw
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Graham Bernard Shaw
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Harold_Pinter
gptkb:David_Mamet
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:George_Bernard_Shaw
gptkb:T.S._Eliot
gptkb:Christopher_Isherwood
gptkb:Caryl_Churchill
gptkb:John_Osborne
Tom Stoppard
Alan Ayckbourn
gptkbp:influencedBy Henrik Ibsen
gptkbp:nationality Irish
gptkbp:notableFeature CBE
Order of Merit
Honorary_Member_of_the_Royal_Academy_of_Arts
Honorary_Doctorate_from_the_University_of_Edinburgh
Honorary_Doctorate_from_Trinity_College_Dublin
gptkbp:notableWorks gptkb:Saint_Joan
gptkb:Man_and_Superman
Pygmalion
gptkbp:occupation essayist
playwright
social critic
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Dublin,_Ireland
gptkbp:placeOfDeath Ayot_St_Lawrence,_England
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Charlotte_Payne-Townsend