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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 Mayakovsky, Vladimir](images/writer/1111/1111_20130120204810.jpg)
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
1893 - 1930
Vladimir Mayakovsky's name is closely interwoven with the Russian Revolution. This fact makes him as controversial as the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Heinesen, William](images/writer/731/731_20120125122840.jpg)
Heinesen, William
1900 - 1991
William Heinesen was born in Torshavn, the Faeroe Islands, where his father was a merchant and ship owner of peasant stock....
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Magnan, Pierre](images/writer/1106/1106_20120506101208.jpg)
Magnan, Pierre
1922 - 2012
The French author Pierre Magnan grew up in Manosque at the centre of the department Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, an isolated,...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Airth, Rennie](images/writer/4119/4119_20150630072118_Large.jpg)
Airth, Rennie
1935 -
Little is known about Rennie Airth’s early life. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, trained as a journalist and s...
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