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  • It is 113 years today since Max Frisch was born.

    The Swiss author Max Frisch was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was an architect. Frisch dreamed of becoming an author from an early age, and in the early 1930s he began to read German literature and linguistics at the University of Zurich. Although disenchanted with university, he became influenced by prominent teachers such as Walter Muschg.
    When his father suddenly died in 1932,...

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Författarporträtt av Pym, Barbara

Pym, Barbara
1913 - 1980

Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, near the Welsh border where she grew up with her younger sister...

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Författarporträtt av Walcott, Derek

Walcott, Derek
1930 - 2017

Derek Walcott was born in Castries on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. His father was a civil servant who painted and...

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Författarporträtt av Booth, Stephen

Booth, Stephen
1952 -

The British crime writer Stephen Booth was born in Burnley, Lancashire. He grew up in Blackpool where he moved with his...

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Portrait of Toni Morrison

Morrison, Toni
1931 - 2019

American author born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, one of four siblings in a working class family in Lorain, Ohio. During the...

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