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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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Författarporträtt av Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
1712 - 1778

Author and political philosopher born in Geneva, Switzerland as the son of a watchmaker. His mother died giving birth to...

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Portrait of Eugène Ionesco

Ionesco, Eugène
1909 - 1994

The playwright and author Eugène Ionesco was born in Romania to a Romanian father and a French mother. The family moved to ...

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Portrait of Kenzaburo Oe

Oe, Kenzaburo
1935 -

Japanese author born in the village of Ose on the island of Shikoku where his family has lived for centuries. His father...

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Författarporträtt av Kelly, Jim

Kelly, Jim
1957 -

English author and journalist, born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, approximately 20 km north of London. His father, Brian B....

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