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It is 113 years today since Czeslaw Milosz was born.
Polish author and Nobel Prize laureate born and raised in the village of Šeteniai, Lithuania, the Russian Empire. His father, Aleksander, was an engineer. Both parents were Lithuanian, from noble families with strong links to Poland; the family had spoken Polish for three hundred years. Czeslaw Milosz grew up in a multicultural, tolerant environment and was fluent in Lithuanian, Russian, English ...
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It is 88 years today since Assia Djebar was born.
Assia Djebar, born as Fatima-Zohra Imalayène, was a French-speaking Algerian author born in 1936 in Cherchell, a small coastal town in western Algeria. Her father was a teacher at the local French school she attended as a young girl. Unlike most Algerian girls, the young Fatima was encouraged to study, and she was often almost the only girl, and the only Muslim, in the classroom. In 1954, she ...
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It is 50 years today since Juli Zeh was born.
Juli Zeh is a German author born in Bonn. She studied law and literature in Passau and Leipzig and publishes short stories, essays and novels alongside her work as a lawyer. In 2005, she received the Per Olov Enquist Prize, a new award for young European authors.
Juli Zeh lives in Leipzig. She is married to the photographer and author David Finck. They have two children together.
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It is 61 years today since Vidar Sundstøl was born.
Vidar Sundstøl is a Norwegian author of crime fiction. He was born and raised at Vøllestad in the municipality of Drangedal, Telemark province. He attended Bostrak skole, Drangedal Ungdomsskole and Bø videregående skole, and he graduated from a two-term creative writing course at Høgskolen, Telemark, in 1987.
Sundstøl wanted to be an author from a young age, but had little success. In order to ma...
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![Författarporträtt av Faulkner, William](images/writer/523/5bfbf1c46d2f60e0eb1c671169685bd5483725f7b895c.jpg)
Faulkner, William
1897 - 1962
In reality William Cuthbert Falkner, American author, born in New Albany, Mississippi but raised mainly in Oxford in the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Mann, Thomas](images/writer/1125/594bd245dadc8cc0d93809f6c6eeb703761086c617dea.jpg)
Mann, Thomas
1875 - 1955
The German novelist and short story writer Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck. His father, who was a senator and wealthy ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Voltaire](images/writer/1805/1805_20161005081838_Large.jpg)
Voltaire
1694 - 1778
French author, the son of a notary, born as François-Marie Arouet in Paris. When he was ten years old, he was admitted to ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Savater, Fernando](images/writer/5175/5175_20130225082158.jpg)
Savater, Fernando
1947 -
The Spanish philosopher and activist Fernando Savater is the author of novels, plays, essays and journalism. He was born in...
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