Sample of Authors
Bellow, Saul
1915 - 2005
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow...
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Stefánsson, Jón Kalman
1963 -
The Icelandic author Jón Kalman Stefánsson grew up in Reykjavik, but also spent a lot of time in the countryside. After s...
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Laxness, Halldór
1902 - 1998
Icelandic author born in Reykjavik as Halldór Guðjónsson. When he was three years old his parents, Guðjón Helgason and Sigr...
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Guillou, Jan
1944 -
Swedish author and journalist, who was born in Södertälje and grew up in Saltsjöbaden. Jan Guillou, who has French ancestry (...
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