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Portrait image of Halldór Laxness

Laxness, Halldór
1902 - 1998

Icelandic author born in Reykjavik as Halldór Guðjónsson. When he was three years old his parents, Guðjón Helgason and Sigr...

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Portrait of Stephen King

King, Stephen
1947 -

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...

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Portrait image of Deborah Levy

Levy, Deborah
1959 -

The British playwright and novelist Deborah Levy was born in South Africa. Her father, a Jewish historian who was a friend...

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Författarporträtt av Bolaño, Roberto

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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