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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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![Författarporträtt av Rothmann, Ralf](images/writer/5519/5519_20151009145943.jpg)
Rothmann, Ralf
1953 -
The German author Ralf Rothmann was born to a Catholic family in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein. He grew up in Oberhausen in...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Krueger, William Kent](images/writer/6415/6415_20160508124716_Large.jpg)
Krueger, William Kent
1950 -
William Kent Krueger is an American author of crime fiction born in Torrington, Wyoming. His father was a teacher, but as...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Sappho](images/writer/1506/1506_20130903093045.jpg)
Sappho
c. 630 BCE - c. 570 BCE
Thanks to the Athenian politician and poet Solon we know that the lyrical poet Sappho from the island of Lesbos was both...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Slaughter, Karin](images/writer/6804/wm_BR_6804_20160316144152_Large.jpg)
Slaughter, Karin
1971 -
The American author Karin Slaughter was born and raised in Jonesboro, a small town near Atlanta, Georgia where her father...
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