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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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Nors, Dorthe
1970 -
The Danish author Dorthe Nors was born in Herning on the island of Jutland. Her family moved to rural Sinding-Ørre Sogn ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Fagerholm, Monika](images/writer/511/wm_BR_5d9f0321ddaffbb12ff2b915159190d70ca640f7d40a6.jpg)
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![Portrait image of James M. Cain](images/writer/2088/618cf4437520ce40ca5f251ec798763ffa21cf7b137d1.jpg)
Cain, James M.
1892 - 1977
The American author and journalist James Mallahan Cain was a prominent figure in 20th century fiction. Alongside Dashiell...
Further reading![Portrait image of Herman Melville](images/writer/1169/61d5b130c98ed2991c60fe86f5d70ad3e2259ca6be382.jpg)
Melville, Herman
1819 - 1891
American author born in New York. Melville came from a wealthy family, but when his merchant father went bankrupt, he was...
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