Strindberg, August
1849 - 1912

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish author born in Stockholm to a large middle-class family. His father was head of the...

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Ammaniti, Niccolò
1966 -

The Italian author Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome to a middle-class family. He studied biology at university and because ...

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Hollinghurst, Alan
1954 -

Alan James Hollinghurst is a British author who was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and grew up in Faringdon, Berkshire,...

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Fo, Dario
1926 - 2016

Italian playwright and actor, born in Sangiano in northern Italy. The father worked as a station master while the mother...

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