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It is 115 years today since Eric Ambler was born.
Eric Clifford Ambler was a British author and playwright born in London. His parents were music hall artists, and at the end of the 1920s he joined them on tour. He attended Colfe's Grammar School and studied engineering at University of London between 1925 and 1928. He entered the advertising business in the 1930s, in 1937 he became head of a London advertising agency and a year later he began...
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It is 157 years today since Luigi Pirandello was born.
Luigi Pirandello was one of the most influential playwrights of the 20th century and a central figure in Italian letters between the First and Second World War. He was born in Chaos (or Kaos), a district near Agrigento in Sicily, a setting he often used in his work.
Pirandello grew up in comfortable circumstances in an upper middle-class family as the second of Stefano Pirandello's and his wife... -
It is 312 years today since Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born.
Author and political philosopher born in Geneva, Switzerland as the son of a watchmaker. His mother died giving birth to him, and when he was ten, his father left him. In 1728, after a period as an artisan's apprentice, he started to travel round Switzerland and France trying his hand at various professions. Also in 1728, he met Madame de Warens (1700–1762), and she became his teacher and m...
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It is 58 years today since Åsa Larsson was born.
Swedish crime writer and former tax lawyer born in Uppsala. Both parents grew up near the city of Kiruna in the north of Sweden – Åsa Larsson’s grandfather is the Olympic gold-winning skier Erik "Kiruna-Lasse" Larsson – and she moved there with her family when she was four years old. She grew up in Kiruna and spent her summer holidays with her grandmother in the village of Kurkkio in Pajala. When...
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It is 77 years today since Peter (1947-) Abrahams was born.
Peter Abrahams is an American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he also grew up. Summer holidays were spent in his parent’s cabin in Quebec, Canada. He earned his BA at Williams College at Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1968; between 1968 and 1970 he was a harpoon fisherman in the Bahamas. He then worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBS) in Ottawa as a producer, among o...
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It is 53 years today since Sophie Hannah was born.
The British poet and novelist Sophie Hannah was born and raised in Manchester. She grew up with her younger sister in a house with many books – both their parents were authors. Their mother, Adèle Geras, born in Jerusalem, was an actor and singer before becoming a popular author of primarily children’s and young adult books. The father, Norman Geras, was born in Rhodesia. He is a retired prof...
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![Författarporträtt av Andrić, Ivo](images/writer/76/76_20130523091157.jpg)
Andrić, Ivo
1892 - 1975
Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav writer born to Bosnian Croat parents of humble origins in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Davis, Lindsey](images/writer/383/6093f00e591233ebb0b2f62f445de30390c5d6d418e0d.jpg)
Davis, Lindsey
1949 -
Lindsey Davis is a British crime writer born in Birmingham where she attended the King Edward VI High School for Girls...
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Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
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...
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