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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 Pirandello, Luigi

Pirandello, Luigi
1867 - 1936

Luigi Pirandello was one of the most influential playwrights of the 20th century and a central figure in Italian letters...

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Författarporträtt av Burnett, W.R.

Burnett, W.R.
1899 - 1982

The American novelist and screenwriter William Riley Burnett was born in Springfield, Ohio, in an influential family. He...

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Författarporträtt av Hustvedt, Siri

Hustvedt, Siri
1955 -

Norwegian-American poet and author. Hustvedt’s parents were both of Norwegian descent but later settled in the USA. Her f...

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Författarporträtt av Cixous, Hélène

Cixous, Hélène
1937 -

The French philosopher, scholar and author Hélène Cixous is a leading post-structuralist feminist scholar alongside Luce I...

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