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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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Portrait image of Frode Grytten Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT (2009)

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Grytten, Frode

Frode Grytten is a Norwegian author and journalist born and raised in Odda, a small industrial community in southwest Norway. His mother was a hairdresser and his father a furniture salesman. He now lives with his wife and children in Bergen where he moved as a student. He began to write at an early age and has, among other things, worked for the Bergen’s Tidende newspaper and the Magasinet I...

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