Joseph Conrad

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1857-12-02

Deathday 1924-08-03 (66 years old)

Place of Birth Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]

Also Known As Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski

Joseph Conrad

Biography

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-born English novelist. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour. Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors. Films have been adapted from or inspired by Conrad's Victory, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, An Outcast of the Islands, The Rover, The Shadow Line, The Duel, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Almayer's Folly.

Known For

Writer

2018
2017
The Lost Valley

as Writer

2016
2016
The Young One

as Novel

2016
2012
2005
Gabrielle

as Novel

2002
Lord Jim

as Novel

1998
1997
Nostromo

as Novel

1996
Victory

as Novel

1996
1994
Windigo

as Novel

1993
1992
1986
Morgen

as Story

1982
An Outpost of Progress

as Short Story

1979
Apocalypse Now

as Author

1978
Naufragio

as Story

1977
The Duellists

as Story

1976
1975
Her Return

as Short Story

1973
The Shadow Line

as Original Story

1965
Lord Jim

as Novel

1958
1955
Folio

as Writer

1953
Laughing Anne

as Novel

1952
Face to Face

as Book

1940
Victory

as Novel

1937
Sabotage

as Novel

1931
1931
1930
1929
The Rescue

as Novel

1925
Lord Jim

as Writer

1919
Victory

as Novel

Actor

1950
The Golden Twenties

as Self (archive footage)