Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Gregor von Rezzori

Born: May 13, 1914
Died: April 23, 1998 (aged 83)
Bio: Gregor von Rezzori, born Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d'Arezzo, was an Austrian-born, Romanian, German-language novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and author of radio plays, as well as an actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic and art collector.
Known for:
- Memoirs of an Anti-semite (1989)
- The snows of yesteryear (1989)
- Maghrebinische Geschichten (1953)
- Oedipus at Stalingrad (1994)
- The Orient-Express (1992)