biography
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Munro, H(ector) H(ugh)
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pseudonym Saki
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pronunciation:
[muhnroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1870–1916)
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Akyab, W Myanmar (formerly Burma). Educated in England at Bedford Grammar School, he returned to Burma and joined the police force in 1893. He went to London in 1896, took up writing for the Westminster Gazette, and from 1902 was the Balkans correspondent for the Morning Post. He is best known for his short stories, humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, which are highly individual, full of eccentric wit and unconventional situations. Collections include Reginald (1904) and Beasts and Superbeasts (1914). His novels The Unbearable Bassington (1912) and When William Came (1913) show his gifts as a social satirist of his contemporary upper-class Edwardian world. He was killed on the Western Front during World War 1, having volunteered for active service despite being over 40. |
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