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It is 220 years today since George Sand was born.
A pseudonym of Aurore Dudevant, a French author born in Paris as Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, but from the age of four mainly raised by her aristocratic grandmother at the family estate of Nohant in Berry. Her father was Maurice Dupin, also an aristocrat. After a time at a convent school in Paris she married baron Casimir Dudevant when 18 years old, and she had two children with him, but the...
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It is 132 years today since James M. Cain was born.
The American author and journalist James Mallahan Cain was a prominent figure in 20th century fiction. Alongside Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, he was among the first authors of "hardboiled" crime fiction that came to influence American noir fiction and film. Many of his works are considered classics, especially the novellas The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) and Double Indemnity...
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It is 66 years today since Louise Penny was born.
The Canadian author, Louise Penny, grew up in Toronto. She studied Journalism and worked as a TV and radio producer. She devoted herself to tough journalism and hard news, and said herself that she became "cynical, sarcastic, self-satisfied and supercilious". And an alcholic too. When she left journalism, there was above all one thing she took with her: the art of listening. "A good interviewer...
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Griffiths, Elly
1963 -
The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Dom...
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Ishiguro, Kazuo
1954 -
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, but he grew up in Guildford, Surrey. He has lived in the UK since 1960. His...
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Cărtărescu, Mircea
1956 -
The Romanian prosaist and poet Mircea Cărtărescu was born and raised in Bucharest together with his sister. Both his m...
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Solstad, Dag
1941 -
The Norwegian author Dag Solstad was born in Sandefjord. After finishing school he worked for a year as a journalist on a...
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