Achebe, Chinua
1930 - 2013

Nigerian writer born in the Igbo town of Ogidi, South-East Nigeria. His parents, Isaiah Okafor Achebe and Janet Ileogbunam,...

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Koestler, Arthur
1905 - 1983

The British author and journalist Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest to a Hungarian father and an Austrian mother who...

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Gercke, Doris
1937 -

Doris Gercke is a German author of crime fiction born in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She grew up in a working...

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Robinson, Peter
1950 - 2022

Peter Robinson is a Canadian author born in Castleford, Yorkshire, England. He was a wayward teenager with little interest...

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