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2 unusual facts about Paul Bowles


Café Hafa

Opened in 1921, the cafe has retained its 1920s style of decor and through the years has been visited by numerous writers and singers, from Paul Bowles and William S. Burroughs, to The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Taprobane Island

Another previous owner was the American author and composer Paul Bowles.


8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements

While living in New York, Hans Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy and 8x8: A Chess Sonata in collaboration with Max Ernst, Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

Alfred Chester

He associated with Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles while in Morocco, but eventually had a falling out with them.

Asa Benveniste

Following the second issue of Zero, which featured work by Paul Bowles, James Baldwin and Matta, Benveniste moved to London.

Daniel Blaufuks

In 1991, Daniel Blaufuks published, with Paul Bowles, My Tangier, and in 1994, the London Diaries, followed by Ein Tag in Mostar (1995) and Uma Viagem a S. Petersburgo (1998).

David R. Godine

After finding new homes for four of his more major authors — Charles Bukowski, Paul Bowles, John Fante, and Wyndham Lewis — Martin sold the rest of his backlist to a fellow publisher, David R. Godine.

Edward Sagarin

Sagarin continued using his pseudonym, and released a second publication in 1953 called Twenty-One Variations on a Theme, an anthology of short stories dealing with homosexuality to which Sherwood Anderson, Paul Bowles, Christopher Isherwood, Denton Welch, Charles Jackson, and Stefan Zweig all contributed.

Gary Conklin

Subjects have included the late American writer and composer Paul Bowles, in Paul Bowles in Morocco, which is as much about the North African country as it is about Bowles; Gore Vidal while running for U.S. Senate in 1982; the American painter Edward Ruscha, and the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo.

Johnny Strike

Strike also interviewed Paul Bowles, Mohamed Choukri, Herbert Huncke and traveled, with extended stays in Morocco, Mexico, and Thailand where he set his fiction.

Virginia Spencer Carr

Virginia Spencer Carr (July 21, 1929 – April 10, 2012) was an award-winning biographer of Carson McCullers, John Dos Passos and Paul Bowles.

Virginia Spencer Carr not only researched and wrote extensively about her subjects, but developed personal relationships with them - in particular Tennessee Williams and Paul Bowles.


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Moumen Smihi

They nurtured local artists such as Mohamed Choukri and Mohamed Mrabet, whose Big Mirror was later adapted by Smihi, with a screenplay by Paul Bowles, Gavin Lambert and Smihi.