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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 Mishima, Yukio](images/writer/1186/1186_20130930173457.jpg)
Mishima, Yukio
1925 - 1970
His real name is Kimitake Hiraoka, a Japanese author born in Tokyo, where he mainly grew up with his grandmother. His...
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Sendker, Jan-Philipp
1960 -
Jan-Philipp Sendker is a German journalist and author. From 1990 to 1995, he was the correspondent in America for the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Kjærstad, Jan](images/writer/943/wm_BR_943_20160426201224_Large.jpg)
Kjærstad, Jan
1953 -
Norwegian author, born and raised in a working-class Oslo suburb. He read theology at the University of Oslo for six years...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Orwell, George](images/writer/1321/1321_20130131213031.jpg)
Orwell, George
1903 - 1950
Pseudonym for Eric Blair, English author, critic and journalist, born in Motihari, in British India, where his British...
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