Writer - Joseph Conrad - National Portrait Gallery Postcard c.1950s

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• Picture / Image:  Joseph Conrad 1857-1924 etching by Walter Tittle
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Joseph Conrad (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuz̪ɛf ˌkɔn.rad]; born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.^[1] He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.^{[note 1]} He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.^{[note 2]}

Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism.^[2] His narrative style and anti-heroic characters^[3] have influenced many authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald,^[4] William Faulkner,^[4] Ernest Hemingway,^[5] André Malraux,^[6] George Orwell,^[7]:254 Graham Greene,^[4] Gabriel García Márquez,^[4]John le Carré,^[4] V. S. Naipaul,^[4] Philip Roth,^[8] J. M. Coetzee,^[4] and Salman Rushdie.^[9] Many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, Conrad's works.

Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on, among other things, his native Poland's national experiences^{[note 3]} and his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.