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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 of Claudia Piñeiro

Piñeiro, Claudia
1960 -

Argentinian author born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro started reading social sciences, but she switched to ...

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Författarporträtt av Marklund, Liza

Marklund, Liza
1962 -

Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a successful author and journalist whose crime novels are widely translated and adapted for...

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Författarporträtt av Moberg, Vilhelm

Moberg, Vilhelm
1898 - 1973

The Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg was born and grew up in Algutsboda in the southern part of the province of Småland. His ...

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Författarporträtt av Stein, Gertrude

Stein, Gertrude
1874 - 1946

Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in a family of well-educated, cultured German Jews. Her father, Daniel...

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