Myrdal, Jan
1927 - 2020

Swedish author, born in Stockholm to Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, both social democratic cabinet ministers, Nobel Prize winners...

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Howard, Catherine Ryan
1982 -

Irish author, born in Cork and raised in the suburb of Grange. Catherine Ryan Howard decided at an early age to become an...

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Nesser, Håkan
1950 -

Håkan Nesser was born in Elvesta Gård (manor) on the outskirts of Kumla. His father was a farmer, as were his family since t...

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NDiaye, Marie
1967 -

The French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye was born in Pithiviers, Loiret, about fifty kilometres south of Paris. When...

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