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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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Kundera, Milan
1929 -
The Czech author Milan Kundera was born in Brno where his father was a pianist and professor at the Academy of Music....
Further reading![Portrait of Imre Kertész](images/writer/924/603e6fb9eadf8c034c53066b3644199a1dd43513dfa6c.jpg)
Kertész, Imre
1929 - 2016
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author born in Budapest to a secular Jewish family. He was widely translated and one of ...
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Yeats, William Butler
1865 - 1939
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Gripe, Maria](images/writer/649/649_20141218181518.jpg)
Gripe, Maria
1923 - 2007
A Swedish author of children’s and youth books, Maria Gripe was born in Vaxholm and grew up in Örebro. She graduated from hi...
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