Tokarczuk, Olga
1962 -

Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential...

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Vidocq, Eugène François
1775 - 1857

Few people have had a life and a professional career to match that of the criminal, police officer, criminologist and...

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Whitman, Walt
1819 - 1892

Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, a village on Long Island, New York, as the second child of nine to Walter, a house...

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Kertész, Imre
1929 - 2016

Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author born in Budapest to a secular Jewish family. He was widely translated and one of ...

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