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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.
    He became interested in aviation at an early a...

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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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Portrait image of P.G. Wodehouse

Wodehouse, P.G.
1881 - 1975

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (Plum to his family and friends) was a British author born in Guildford, Surrey. His father...

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Portrait of Jenny Erpenbeck

Erpenbeck, Jenny
1967 -

The German author and theatre director Jenny Erpenbeck grew up in central East Berlin where she still lives. Erpenbeck's...

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Larsson, Stieg
1954 - 2004

Stieg Larsson was a Swedish author and journalist who, despite only publishing three novels, is one of Sweden’s b...

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Författarporträtt av Magris, Claudio

Magris, Claudio
1939 -

Italian author, translator and professor of Germanic studies born in Trieste. The cosmopolitan and dynamic city of Trieste...

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