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2	Charles Bukowski was a German-American novelist and poet. The bulk of his writing focuses on his everyday life as a working-class alcoholic in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. His work is minimalistic, such as his poems "Bluebird," "Nirvana," and "Dinosauria, We," as well as a few of the stories in ''Notes of a Dirty Old Man'', a collection of short pieces which originally appeared as a column in two local underground newspapers. He was also the author of the screenplay to ''Film/{{Barfly}}''. Bukowski died in 1994 at the age of 73.
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4	A BioPic directed by Creator/JamesFranco and starring Creator/JoshPeck has been filmed but hasn't found a distributor yet.
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6	"Nirvana" was adapted to music by Music/TomWaits and available on his album ''Music/OrphansBrawlersBawlersAndBastards''.
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8	!!Novels by Charles Bukowski
9	* ''Post Office'' (1971)
10	* ''Factotum'' (1975)
11	* ''Women'' (1978)
12	* ''Ham On Rye'' (1982)
13	* ''Hollywood'' (1989)
14	* ''Pulp'' (1994)
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16	!!Works by Charles Bukowski with their own pages include:
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18	* ''Film/{{Barfly}}'' (screenplay)
19	* ''Literature/HamOnRye'' (novel)
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21	!!Other works by Charles Bukowski contain examples of:
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23	* AllLowercaseLetters: Charles Bukowski uses only lowercase in his early works.
24	* TheAlcoholic: Henry Chinaski.
25	* AuthorAvatar: Henry Chinaski.
26	* BrilliantButLazy: "My ambition is handicapped by my laziness" pretty much sums his characters up.
27	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's literary alter ego.
28	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Bukowski’s robust writing style creates numerous self-referential redundancies and repetitions, some of which are outrageously obvious.
29	--> '' "In the morning it was morning and I was still alive."'' (Post Office)
30	* GreyAndGreyMorality: None of his works depict a truly good hero, instead they are full of characters who are all flawed and unlikeable to a varying degree.
31	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: ''Hollywood'' is full of these, ranging from the relatively subtle and well-disguised (Creator/DennisHopper becomes Mack Austin, Creator/DavidLynch is Manz Loeb, Creator/MickeyRourke gets rebranded as Jack Blesdoe) to the ludicrously blunt ([[Creator/JackKerouac Mack Derouac]], [[Music/TomJones Tab Jones]], [[Creator/FrancisFordCoppola Francis Ford Lopolla]]).

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