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![Författarporträtt av Yourcenar, Marguerite](images/writer/1903/5b0f9be38262917897770910d0fbcaeb9b6dffe464108.jpg)
Yourcenar, Marguerite
1903 - 1987
French author of Belgian origin, born in Brussels. Her mother died the same year due to puerperal fever. Marguerite was...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Beckett, Simon](images/writer/5431/wm_BR_5431_20140321102231_Large.jpg)
Beckett, Simon
1960 -
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von](images/writer/623/623_20120429091304.jpg)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
1749 - 1832
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main. His father, Johann Kaspar Goethe, who had left public service...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Lispector, Clarice](images/writer/2807/2807_20120428082045.jpg)
Lispector, Clarice
1920 - 1977
The Brazilian author Clarice Lispector was born in the Jewish village of Chechelnyk in southern Ukraine. Her family...
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