Lispector, Clarice
1920 - 1977

The Brazilian author Clarice Lispector was born in the Jewish village of Chechelnyk in southern Ukraine. Her family...

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Lethem, Jonathan
1964 -

The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science...

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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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Diski, Jenny
1947 - 2016

The British author Jenny Diski was born in London as Jenny Simmonds. She had a traumatic childhood with a father who...

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