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It is 125 years today since Yasunari Kawabata was born.
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer born in Osaka. He came from an educated, wealthy family, but he lost his parents at an early age and his only sibling, a sister, died when he was nine years old. These childhood traumas came to inform his writing. After growing up with his maternal grandfather in the countryside, Kawabata read English and Japanese literature at...
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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Michael, Ib
1945 -
Ib Michael Rasmussen is a Danish author. He was born to a wealthy family in Roskilde on the Danish coast. As a child he...
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Uri, Helene
1964 -
The Norwegian author and linguist Helene Uri was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew up in Bærum and Hageby, Oslo. Her ...
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France, Anatole
1844 - 1924
Anatole France, born in Paris as Anatole François Thibault, was a French novelist and poet. He grew up among books above ...
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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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