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  • It is 113 years today since Max Frisch was born.

    The Swiss author Max Frisch was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was an architect. Frisch dreamed of becoming an author from an early age, and in the early 1930s he began to read German literature and linguistics at the University of Zurich. Although disenchanted with university, he became influenced by prominent teachers such as Walter Muschg.
    When his father suddenly died in 1932,...

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Portrait image of Pierre Boileau

Boileau, Pierre
1906 - 1989

Pierre Boileau was one half of the partnership (and the brand) Boileau-Narcejac, which can best be described as French...

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Författarporträtt av Barker, Pat

Barker, Pat
1943 -

The novelist Pat (Patricia) Barker was born in a working-class home in Thornaby-on-Tees, northeast England. Her father's...

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Författarporträtt av Mickiewicz, Adam

Mickiewicz, Adam
1798 - 1855

The Polish author Adam Mickiewicz grew up in the village of Zaosie near Novogrudok, then the Lithuanian part of the former...

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Khemiri, Jonas Hassen
1978 -

Jonas Hassen Khemiri was born in Stockholm. After he finished school he attended the Stockholm School of Economics, he has...

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