Mo Yan
1955 -

Pseudonym for Guan Moye, a Chinese author born to poor farmers in Gaomi, northeast Shandong province. His father only went...

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Thor, Annika
1950 -

Annika Thor grew up in Gothenburg in the 1950s and 60s. She learned to read and write when she was five years old, and she...

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Sarraute, Nathalie
1900 - 1999

The French author Nathalie Sarraute was born as Natalie Tcherniak in Ivanovo-Voznesensk in Russia. She grew up in an...

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Steinbeck, John
1902 - 1968

American author and Nobel Prize winner born in Salinas in California. His mother was a teacher and his father worked in the...

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