Lesage, Alain René
1668 - 1747

Alain-René Lesage was a French playwright and novelist born in Bretagne. He read law in Paris and practiced briefly before ...

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Horace
65 BCE - November 27, 08 BCE.

The Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus is not only the most quoted and the most frequently translated poet of the...

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Mahfouz, Naguib
1911 - 2006

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo as the youngest child of five boys and two girls. His family was of Muslim middle-class...

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Akunin, Boris
1956 -

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...

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