Ekelöf, Gunnar
1907 - 1968

Swedish poet, born in Stockholm where he grew up in an upper-class family. The father worked as a stockbroker, but was...

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Allingham, Margery
1904 - 1966

English crime writer born in Ealing, London, as the daughter of Herbert John Allingham and his wife and cousin Emily Jane...

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Knausgård, Karl Ove
1968 -

The Norwegian author and scholar Karl Ove Knausgård was born in Oslo and raised at Tromøya, Arendal and Kristiansand. K...

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Sachs, Nelly
1891 - 1970

The poet and playwright Leonie (Nelly) Sachs grew up in a Jewish family in Berlin. Her father was a wealthy manufacturer...

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