Alexievich, Svetlana
1948 -

Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine three years after the Second World War. She grew up in a village in Belorussia...

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Undset, Sigrid
1882 - 1949

The Norwegian author and Nobel Laureate Sigrid Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark. Her mother was Danish. Already in...

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Winslow, Don
1953 -

Don Winslow is an American novelist and former private investigator. He was born in New York. His father was a US Navy...

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Kallifatides, Theodor
1938 -

Theodor Kallifatides was born in the village of Molaoi in the Peloponnese in Greece. His father was an elementary school...

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