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It is 68 years today since Mircea Cărtărescu was born.
The Romanian prosaist and poet Mircea Cărtărescu was born and raised in Bucharest together with his sister. Both his mother, Maria (née Badislav) and his father, the economist and journalist Konstantin Cărtărescu, were committed communists.
Cărtărescu graduated from college in 1975 and went on to study literature and languages at university, graduating in 1980. His PhD thesis in literature was on... -
It is 145 years today since Freeman Wills Crofts was born.
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
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Marquand, John P.
1893 - 1960
The American author John Phillips Marquand was born in Wilmington, Delaware. His parents were wealthy, but they lost their...
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Rosenhayn, Paul
1877 - 1929
German journalist and internationally acclaimed author of detective stories, best known for his more than forty...
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Henry, O.
1862 - 1910
O. Henry was born as William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina. He later changed the spelling of his middle name...
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Gao Xingjian
1940 -
Chinese author and artist born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province in eastern China. His father was a bank clerk and his mother an...
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