Carroll, Lewis
1832 - 1898

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of the English author and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born in Daresbury,...

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Aretino, Pietro
1492 - 1556

Italian author born in Arezzo, Tuscany to a poor cobbler. He had little or no schooling, but he was clever and astute, and...

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Darwish, Mahmoud
1941 - 2008

The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was born in the village of al-Birweh in Western Gallilee to a landowning family. His...

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Brecht, Bertolt
1898 - 1956

German poet, playwright and essayist born in Augsburg where his father was the managing director of a paper mill. Brecht...

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