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Nobel Prize in literature 2025 to
Krasznahorkai, László
The Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai was born in a Jewish middle-class family in Gyula, southeast Hungary, which he describes as "a rather strange, sad place, full of lonely, peculiar people". His father was a lawyer and his mother a social security administrator. Krasznahorkai deserted from military service after having been punished for insubordination, and he drifted around for a few y...
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Archer, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Howard Archer is a British author, former politician and peer of the realm surrounded by scandal. His thrillers and short stories are hugely popular, despite the fact that he has never found favour with the critics, his involvement in insider trading and being sentenced for perjury. None of this stopped him from his being knighted in 1992, adding Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare to his...
