Brontë, Anne
1820 - 1849

Anne Brontë was the youngest and least known of the three Brontë sisters. She grew up together with her sisters Charlotte a...

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Høeg, Peter
1957 -

The Danish author Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the inner-city district of Christianshavn. His mother ...

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Becker, Jurek
1937 - 1997

The German author Jurek Becker was born as Jerzy Bekker in Lódz, Poland. Because all documents were destroyed in the war, ...

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NDiaye, Marie
1967 -

The French novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye was born in Pithiviers, Loiret, about fifty kilometres south of Paris. When...

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