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In this article the author explores the life and career of Austrian author Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard was born in 1931 and has spent much of his early adulthood in hospital due to an intractable lung disease. He has been associated with the Darmstadt Academy of Language and Literature until the occasion of the election to it of the former president of Germany, Walter Scheel. One of his books, "My Prizes," consists of reflections on the literary awards that he received during his lifetime. He died of pulmonary sarcoidosis in 1989.