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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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Författarporträtt av Faulkner, William

Faulkner, William
1897 - 1962

In reality William Cuthbert Falkner, American author, born in New Albany, Mississippi but raised mainly in Oxford in the...

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Författarporträtt av Jong, Erica

Jong, Erica
1942 -

Erica Jong is an American author born in New York as Erica Mann to Jewish parents of Polish and Russian descent. Her father...

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Författarporträtt av Rohmer, Sax

Rohmer, Sax
1883 - 1959

Pseudonym for the English author and journalist Arthur Henry Ward, who already as a teenager added Sarsfield as a last...

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Fleming, Ian
1908 - 1964

Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author and journalist born in London. He created James Bond, code name 007 – one of t...

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