García Márquez, Gabriel
1927 - 2014

Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, a small town in the tropical parts of northern Colombia. Here he mainly grew u...

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Salinger, J.D.
1919 - 2010

American author born in New York to a successful Jewish lawyer and cheese importer, and his Scottish-Irish wife. The family...

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Seferis, Giorgos
1900 - 1971

The first Nobel Prize laureate to come out of Greece was born Georgios Seferiades in Urla near Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey),...

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Némirovsky, Irène
1903 - 1942

French author, born in Kyiv by Russian-Jewish parents. Her father was one of the richest bankers of Tsarist Russia, and...

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