Staël, Germaine de
1766 - 1817

Germaine Staël von Holstein, best known as Madame de Staël, was a French author born in Paris as Ann Louise Germaine N...

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Sarrazin, Albertine
1937 - 1967

French author born out of wedlock in Algiers to a French colonel and military surgeon and his fifteen-year-old Jewish...

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García Márquez, Gabriel
1927 - 2014

Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, a small town in the tropical parts of northern Colombia. Here he mainly grew u...

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Engberg, Katrine
1975 -

Katrine Engberg was born in Copenhagen where she also grew up in a cultural academic family. She trained to be a dancer and...

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