Thor, Annika
1950 -

Annika Thor grew up in Gothenburg in the 1950s and 60s. She learned to read and write when she was five years old, and she...

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Jonasson, Jonas
1961 -

Jonas Jonasson grew up "happy and untroubled" as Pär-Ola Jonasson in the Swedish town of Växjö in the 1960s. His father's na...

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Schlink, Bernhard
1944 -

The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in...

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Apollinaire, Guillaume
1880 - 1918

French author of Italian-Polish origin. He was born out of wedlock in Rome and was baptized Guglielmo Alberto Wladimiro...

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