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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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Swift, Graham
1949 -
British author born in Bermondsey, South London. Swift was brought up in a lower middle-class home in Croydon – a happy c...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Guareschi, Giovanni](images/writer/3427/3427_20131031173025.jpg)
Guareschi, Giovanni
1908 - 1968
Giovannino Guareschi is famous for his comical novels and political satire. He is best known for his stories about the...
Further reading![Portrait of Eugène Ionesco](images/writer/823/823_20170118080352_Large.jpg)
Ionesco, Eugène
1909 - 1994
The playwright and author Eugène Ionesco was born in Romania to a Romanian father and a French mother. The family moved to ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hamilton, Steve](images/writer/5845/5845_20130730072929_Large.jpg)
Hamilton, Steve
1961 -
The American crime-fiction writer Steve Hamilton was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in White Lake in the same...
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