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It is 152 years today since Bertrand Russell was born.
The British philosopher and author Bertrand Arthur William Russel was born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, to an aristocratic family that included the former Prime Minister Lord John Russell. His parents were liberal and advocated, among other things, the emancipation of women. Although his godfather was John Stuart Mill, the boy was brought up by his Presbyterian grandmother after he was...
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It is 80 years today since W.G. Sebald was born.
Winfried Georg (W.G.) Sebald was born near the end of the Second World War in the Bavarian mountain village of Wertach where his mother had moved to get away from the bombing of the town of Bamberg. His parents, Rosa and Georg, had three children. His father, an officer of the Wehrmacht who had participated in the invasion of Poland, was a prisoner of war until 1947, but mentioning the war was...
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Ekelöf, Gunnar
1907 - 1968
Swedish poet, born in Stockholm where he grew up in an upper-class family. The father worked as a stockbroker, but was...
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Sem-Sandberg, Steve
1958 -
Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in Norway to Norwegian parents who spent many years in the United States, which explains his...
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Schlink, Bernhard
1944 -
The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in...
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Delany, Samuel R.
1942 -
American science fiction author born in Harlem, New York. Samuel Ray Delany Jr. grew up above his father's funeral parlour....
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