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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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Fagerholm, Monika
1961 -
The Swedish-speaking Finnish author Monika Kristina Fagerholm grew up in the Helsinki suburb of Botby gård. Her father was ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Powell, Richard](images/writer/6451/6451_20141210092721.jpg)
Powell, Richard
1908 - 1999
Richard Powell was an author, journalist and advertising man born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he lived most of his...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Woolrich, Cornell](images/writer/1892/1892_20150612080325.jpg)
Woolrich, Cornell
1903 - 1968
The American author Cornell Woolrich is one of the more eccentric authors of the 20th century. He was an anti-social...
Further reading![Portrait of Siegfried Lenz](images/writer/1010/60368340b504444e66428900fdc3ae564801427563317.jpg)
Lenz, Siegfried
1926 - 2014
Siegfried Lenz, known for his strong social critique, is among the foremost German post-war authors alongside Heinrich...
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