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![Portrait image of Halldór Laxness](images/writer/995/995_20131107101537_Large.jpg)
Laxness, Halldór
1902 - 1998
Icelandic author born in Reykjavik as Halldór Guðjónsson. When he was three years old his parents, Guðjón Helgason and Sigr...
Further reading![Portrait of Stephen King](images/writer/937/609aa7325b91180e35032646d2020645fa908126c0a2e.jpg)
King, Stephen
1947 -
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...
Further reading![Portrait image of Deborah Levy](images/writer/6345/615efed38312f1dfd17719aa766fecb2e44911f83d5e0.jpg)
Levy, Deborah
1959 -
The British playwright and novelist Deborah Levy was born in South Africa. Her father, a Jewish historian who was a friend...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bolaño, Roberto](images/writer/4613/4613_20130830121537_Large.jpg)
Bolaño, Roberto
1953 - 2003
The author and poet Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago de Chile, but for most of his life he resided abroad, in Mexico, El ...
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