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It is 124 years today since Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born.
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint Exupéry was born on June 29 in Lyon, France. He came from an aristocratic, but not wealthy, family. His father died before his son was four, and his mother moved to Le Mans with her five children. This was where Saint-Exupéry attended school. He was aiming for a naval certificate, but he failed the exam.
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It is 81 years today since Maureen O'Brien was born.
Maureen O’Brien is an English actress and author from Merseyside, United Kingdom. She was born in Liverpool, where she later attended the Notre Dame School at Mount Pleasant, and she grew up in Kirkby. O’Brien is the sister of the actress Eileen O’Brien. In 1961, she moved to London where she attended the Central School of Speech and Drama and graduated with a teacher’s degree in 1964. The same ye...
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It is 49 years today since Katrine Engberg was born.
Katrine Engberg was born in Copenhagen where she also grew up in a cultural academic family. She trained to be a dancer and for a long time had a successful dancing career, for example at Det Kongelige Teater, and as a choreographer and director.
Katrine Engberg lives in the centre of Copenhagen with her husband and children. Following the great success of her crime novels, she is now a...
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![Författarporträtt av Buck, Pearl S.](images/writer/261/261_20160115080356.jpg)
Buck, Pearl S.
1892 - 1973
Pearl S. Buck is the pseudonym of Pearl Sydenstricker Walsh. She was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents were...
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Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
1925 - 2006
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia's best-known author outside Indonesia. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize and he...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Dreiser, Theodore](images/writer/417/417_20121115173526.jpg)
Dreiser, Theodore
1871 - 1945
The American author Theodore Dreiser was born as Herman Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was the ninth of ten...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av James, Henry](images/writer/844/5ec783fee8e7098b3199b0973df4b5b563ef680253e6d.jpg)
James, Henry
1843 - 1916
Henry James was an American author born in New York to a wealthy, intellectual family of Irish and Scottish origin. His...
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